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Southeastern Calves Superior To Midwestern

That's a pretty surprising study!!
But it doesn't give me all the info.
Were all the calves coming into the feedlot "bawlin"?
Do cattlemen in the SE USA really keep their calves on the cows for 300+ days? Or are they being weaned/background on the farm? They certainly would wean easier being on the cow that long, but that wouldn't work up here.
Just thinkin' out loud.
 
Frank in West Dakota said:
That's a pretty surprising study!!
But it doesn't give me all the info.
Were all the calves coming into the feedlot "bawlin"?
Do cattlemen in the SE USA really keep their calves on the cows for 300+ days? Or are they being weaned/background on the farm? They certainly would wean easier being on the cow that long, but that wouldn't work up here.
Just thinkin' out loud.
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Most calves down here are either backgrounded on grass or preconditioned on grain for a period after weaning.

Things will change though, because of the price of wheat, most isn't being grazed........and will be combined..
 
I wonder how the calves would have compared to calves raised in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, and Neb.
 
I don't know, but there is always the chance for a suprise answer. I'm pretty sure a couple of years ago Oklahoma thought there was NO COMPARISON between them and Boise State either!
 
skeeter said:
I wonder how the calves would have compared to calves raised in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, and Neb.
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Or Northern Minnesota not from the Dairy gone beef region's.
 
nortexsook said:
Minnesota?

Do they have cows in Minnesota? I thought it was all lakes? Wow!, color me surprised!
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:roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :wink:
 
The way I read the report the Southern calves were 71 days older and only 11 lbs heavier. I wouldn't be to proud of that, the Midwest cow/calf producer probably made more money than the Southern ones did.
 
Frank in West Dakota said:
That's a pretty surprising study!!
But it doesn't give me all the info.
Were all the calves coming into the feedlot "bawlin"?
Do cattlemen in the SE USA really keep their calves on the cows for 300+ days? Or are they being weaned/background on the farm? They certainly would wean easier being on the cow that long, but that wouldn't work up here.
Just thinkin' out loud.
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I have some calves at Tri County now, our calves have to be weaned 45 days two round of shots and bunk broke. My calves were 205 days, all calves had to be born in 2007.
 
nortexsook said:
I don't know, but there is always the chance for a suprise answer. I'm pretty sure a couple of years ago Oklahoma thought there was NO COMPARISON between them and Boise State either!
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now I gotta go dig out the tape of that game and enoy ol Stoops getting his ash handed to him......
 
RobertMac, I do find the dressed versus live weights to be odd. I'm really having a hard time believing that the Southeastern cattle had a dressing percentage of 67.76%. That's of the charts. I know that some cattle will do that, especially heavy muscled cattle. But for 18 thousand head to average that number would mean that half of the cattle had a dressing percentage higher than that. Just doesn't seem very believable.

Also, the final weights are pretty low. The study doesn't say how many steers or heifers there were, but there aren't too many steers being killed these days with a final weight of 1067. That's very light but you can see by the carcass data that the cattle weren't very fat. Just barely any Yield Grade 4's when the industry average is somewhere around 10-12%.

HP
 
Whose post are you saying "it's getting a little deep" to? RobertMac and HighPlains are right on the money from what I can tell. That is a very high dressing percentage for any large number of cattle, and 1067 pounds is pretty light for harvesting steers.

Whose post don't you agree with?
 
I'm in the party that says let's put the southern cattle against some calves from KS, CO, WY, NE, SD, ND, MT.

Lord knows Illinois, Indiana aren't known for their cattle they are dirt farming states.
 

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