IT PAYS TO BUY NAME BRAND BRANDED
We recognize customer service goes a long way in adding value to the Brand. We stand behind these cattle and look forward to growing our relationship after the sale. We want to be a part of growing your cattle business and assisting you in adding value after your purchase. We are actively seeking Cavender Brangus genetics to bid on and buy in truck load lots. Whether you are a bull buyer using our genetics on your cattle, or purchasing commercial females through this sale, we would like the opportunity to bid on your calves at weaning. We are comfortable giving you a bid on your ranch or if you are putting them on Superior, let us know. If you would like us to partner with you on your cattle to spread your risk, we can do that also. We may not be able to win the bid on all of them, but we will do our best to add value to your program. A look at the feeding results chart of our steers in this section will give you an idea why we are anxious to help. In addition to the steers and feeder heifers you might sell, we welcome you to bring the resulting replacement heifers out of your purchases (bulls or commercial females) back through this sale offering in the future, we
stand ready to work with you. What a difference a year makes in terms of calf prices and carcass values. We are seeing the lowest cattle numbers in history along with steady and increasing demand for high quality beef driving prices to record levels. Predictions are set for continued profitable beef production in the cow calf segment for the next several years. At Cavender Ranches we believe name brand cattle backed by years of no a nonsense, disciplined breeding program adds value whether describing registered seedstock or commercial replacement females. That is what you get when you buy Cavender Ranch females. As you can see by the documented harvest data on the steers and heifers we have fed over the past four years, we believe in our product and we know they work under real world conditions. These cattle harvested are out of the very kind of replacement females we are selling.
GENETICS FOR THE REAL-WORLD FEEDING CATTLE FOR 25 YEARS Cavender Ranches Carcass Data 2020-2024 We have been feeding our own steers for over 20 years. We are please with the results and we have been documenting and collecting the carcass data on our Caender Brangus and Neches River steers and non-replacement heifers since 2020. The data below is all of the data we have, it is not a select group or groups but literally all of it. It is real world data on steers and heifers sired by Cavender Ranch bulls. We feel it is valuable to benchmark what our bulls can do on commercial cattle just like those of our customers. The harvested cattle are out of a variety of genetics on the dam side varying from multigeneration commercial Brangus cows to true F1 Angus X Brahman and F1 Tiger Stripes to Brangus sired Super Baldy dams.
Choice and Prime Combined
Harvest Year
Avg Yield Grade
# Harvested # Prime
% Prime
# Choice
% Choice
# Select
% Select
NRL/Cut
# CAB
% CAB Dressing %
Total 2020 Total 2021 Total 2022 Total 2023 Total 2024
738 679 351
54 48 34 62 11
7% 600 7% 510 10% 267 5% 911 5% 189 5.8% 83 7% 2560
81% 81 75% 118 76% 50 79% 182 81% 33 79.8% 12 79% 476
11% 3 17% 3 14% 0 16% — 14% 1 11.5% 3 15% 10
3.40 2.99 3.17
199 195
27% 63.9% 89% 29% 63.7% 82% 26% 63.6% 86% 23% 63.9% 84% 29.5% 64% 85.5% 15.4% 64.6% 85.6% 26% 63.8% 85%
93
1155
2.6
261
234 104
3.15 2.33 2.95
69 16
2025
6
Total All Years
3261
215
833
Interestingly the 2024 closeouts were in July and September, meaning these cattle withstood the heat and thrived. The average of the past 5 years is pretty impressive we think. The Yield Grade has improved by 4 tenths of a grade as we continue to add more muscle to these cattle! At the same time we were able to hold Dressing Percentage constant at nearly 64%. We have also been able to hold our choice and prime percentages constant wile improving yeild grade. The cattle gained in the feedlot and hung on the rail. That pretty much sums up our goals in producing the real world sires for our customers. Bigger quality values with less waste. We have a lot more data in the pipeline as we have been successful in buying some of our customers steers. We look forward to updating our totals in the future.
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