Reference Sires JMG / LR THE CURE 508J
BD: 08/24/2020
Reg No: 4013586
Tattoo: 508H
ERIXON BITTEN 203A
SAS ANTIDOTE F046
KBHR B377
TJ SHARPER IMAGE 809U
JMG MISS IMAGE 508C
JMGMISS KEVIN3174A
CED BW WW YW Milk DOC MARB REA 9.2 1.5 74.2 105.6 25.7 8.5 0.13 0.48
JMG CARVER 76662K
BD: 08/17/2022
Reg No: 4503185
Tattoo: 76662K
WS PILGRIM H182U
TKCC CARVER 65C
FORD RJ DOLLY Y83 CNS DREAM ON L186
JMG MISS DREAM ON 692S
JMG MISS CASH 138L
CED BW WW YW Milk DOC MARB REA 8.3 1.7 84.8 123.5 14.4 13.2 0.07 0.77
What is a good bull worth? How do you put a fair price on a bull? My experience is that a great many bulls are underpriced. After investing time and money to produce a genetically superior product, far too many bulls go for little more than fat cattle prices, far less than what bulls are worth. The genetic package that is bred into a bull distinguishes them from a baloney bow. Genetics, documented by performance records, make a bull valuable. If you start with the basic Bologna price bull, then add on the value of the genetic package, it may surprise you what the bulls are worth. Most people don’t think about it, but a Bologna bull costs little to own. A 1,200 lb. yearling at $3 per pound is worth $3,600 for slaughter. If he is used for five years and grows into a 2200 lb. chunk of Bologna bull, he will at $2 a lb., have a $4,400 value salvage. And the $800 increase in value of the bull will pay the interest and feed him. Consequently, this base price shouldn’t be considered an expense in bull selection. You will eventually get it all back, plus interest. For this example, let’s assume that a potential customer is a commercial producer, who sells everything as feeder calves and raises his herd replacements. Let’s also assume any bull for sale will sire 25 calves a year; 20 that will be sold as feeder calves and five that will be kept as herd replacements. If a bull will add 40 lbs. to the weaning weight of a feeder calves, then the 20 calves sold will weigh 800 lbs. more than the average of the buyer’s calf crop the year before. Figuring $4.50 per lb., the Bull will earn an extra $3600 for the new owner, the first year, or $8,000 in five years. A bull at $21,600, (base price of $3,600 and $18,000 additional earnings) the buyer can expect to get all of this investment back over a five-year period. This bull offers even more; the five replacement heifers represent considerable added genetic value, we are not sure how you figure this value, but if the five heifers were sold with the rest of the calves, their added weight would make them worth an additional $900 in five years. This means that the bull will pay for himself at a sale price of $40,000 in five years. You have more to sell than weight gains. If your records document calving ease, this bull may well provide a 4% better calf crop. That is one more calf to sell for each 25 cows he settles, five more during his useful life. An extra 500-pound calf at $4.50 is worth $2250 and in five years that adds up to $11,250. The bull is now worth $29,250 added earning power to the customer. Figure what your bulls can earn and be prepared to see in black and white the Bologna bulls plus genetic.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Larson Ranch Annual Bull and Heifer Sale 18
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