Baby calves here, beef, usually bring between $100-250 at the stockyard. The dairy farmers here will sell their bull baby calves, and usually have a waiting list. There are some Amish here who will buy every one they can, and bottle raise them.
Barry, we have a couple of local guys who raise Longhorns. One farmer really has a nice herd, if you're into them, and the other guy says he likes them because of their ease of calving, and the fact that their good mama cows.
I'll stick to Angus.
Yeah, if I'm gonna go to the trouble of a cow-calf operation, have them eat grass all year, worm, doctor, feed, hay...
I'm not raising a "miniature" anything. Or a longhorn.
I wanna raise something that will gain weight fast, and bring top dollar in the sale ring.
You can tell the people that just want the Ag Tax Exemption by whether they have longhorns on their place, or not...
