Social Media and Calving Season
Something tells me that come next fall, there won't be nearly as many of these calves registered as very late February show heifers as there are posts about big calving days on February 29th.
Just a hunch.
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Getting First Pick
{I’m bored and this was sitting in the old draft blog post folder so here you go}
So you don’t have a ton of money to buy a show steer. What can you do in order to win? Short of spending the years it takes learn how to consistently identify the green sleeper calves; one of the best ways is getting the first picks from a small operation.
You know who I’m talking about; they’re the local guys that only raise a few steers every year. They’re not the kind of folks that have 20 babies running around that will win a breed at a major but most will have at least one really good one that’s priced right.
So what do you do to get in there before everybody else?
First, make sure we’re talking about the same guy. I’m not talking about the guy with stars in his eyes who gushingly talks about run ins with show jocks to impress you. I’m also not talking about the guy who looks at $10,000 steers and thinks it’s easy to raise them. The ranchers I’m talking about have a larger emotional attachment to their calves than price they want for them.
Step 1 – Be a respectful young chap.
When you see the breeder of the calves you want a better pick from, say hi and shake hands. If you explicitly stop running around with the other hellions and take a moment to shake his hand, say hi, and ask about his cattle. Do it every time. This will be MUCH more important to your long term success than having the right amount of ‘bling’ on your show stick and/or buckle.
Step 2 – Learn how to feed, implant, and supplement.
The small breeders want their calves to be fed right. If they can’t help you feed, make sure your county extension agent or ag teacher can. Make sure the breeder knows that you know what implants and Zilmax are and how they are supposed to be used.
Step 3 – Learn how to show.
Small breeders want their calves to be shown right. Go to clinics and talk about how serious you take showmanship around them.
Step 4 – Ask if you can help work cattle.
This one is killer. Tell the breeder you are trying to get first pick from that you want to raise cattle or become a vet when you grow up but that your family doesn’t have cattle. Tell him you’d like to come help him work cattle some time.
Step 5 – Loyalty
Feed his calves right, show them right, and keep going back to him and eventually you’ll be the first one in his herd every year.
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Before/After
I love looking at these when others do them...
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Wanna make some money?
Step 1 - Load up your truck with Therabloat, Bloat Release, mineral, and bloat blocks.
Step 2 - Drive door to door in south Texas anywhere you see clover and tell the farmers you have the stuff that's sold out in all of the farm shops.
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San Antonio Champions
Grand - Charolais - Bred by Horn, sold by Potts - Sired by Solid Gold Clone
More info at Matt Lautner's Blog
Reserve - AOB
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This Lady
...will be peforming at the San Antonio Stock Show the night of the grand champion market steer drive...
No need for a rant.
Just let the ineptitude of the person who scheduled somebody who actively promotes vegetarianism on the night that 30 kids, families, and ag teachers who spent a year busting their asses on a beef project are honored sink in for a second.
Really, think about it. If the families are going to watch their kid show in the grand drive (a pretty big honor around these parts) they are going to have to buy tickets that will financially support a woman who hates the very reason they are in San Antonio in the first place.
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Texas Major Show Simmentals
Replace "chicken" with "Simmental" and this is what's going through my head every time I watch the Simmi classes in San Antonio and Houston...
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More Observations
Shaking Hands
Props to Dr. Skaggs for doing everything he reasonably could to put a stop to the ‘walk across the ring and slow down the show to shake hands’ foolishness. He couldn’t put a stop to all of it but he turned more than a few kids back toward the gate.
Kids, stop listening to your dads. Judges have gone so far as to ask Cherie at the TJLA to see what she can do to get you to stop doing it. The biggest names in the world of judging Texas prospect shows have asked you to stop. It’s not their fault your dad doesn’t pay attention; stop slowing down the shows just so he won’t whoop your hiney.
Team Penning
The only barn that’s air conditioned in San Antonio is the horse barn and they’ve had team penning competitions going on for the past two days. That’s some pretty darn neat stuff if I do say so myself.
I Heard
Nothing but good opinions of Dan Shike’s sorting of the steers. He ran a snappy, efficient show and made sure every kid got a solid, legitimate look all the way out the gate. He rewarded excellent showmanship but didn’t ignore a steer just because he was being hard headed.
People seemed to think he was emphasizing movement more than I did. That’s probably just because I’m still perplexed as to what exactly John Edwards was doing a few years ago while judging a terminal steer show “on the move” like they were pigs.
My New “No Drinking At Stock Shows” Rule
Has been given the caveat of one per steer that makes the sale.
Zilmax
This is the first time I’ve seen the results of it in more than a random steer or two. I had seen the monsters it created a few times but didn’t really know what they looked like prior.
That being said, the idiot on Steerplanet who was whining about it being used in breeding stock has no clue what that stuff does. You’d have to be absolutely stupid to feed that to a breeding animal where movement matters.
I Know
I’ve been writing this blog for several years now and I know people read it. In fact, more people read it than I’m comfortable with. It still shocks me any time it’s even mentioned in the ‘real world’.
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Forget Linsanity
You want to see something really crazy?
Turn on RFD and watch the Superior feeder calf sales today.
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San Antonio Observations
The depth of quality seemed to be down a notch. There are still a few heater type calves but the depth just doesn’t seem to be there. In a breed like Brahman cross, I thought there were only two or three that would have played with the top ten from last year.
Weight Breaks
They were absolutely through the roof this year. The break between light and middle was up about 50-lbs in most breeds. There was an awful lot of thought, holding, and flat out “crashing” of steers that went on over the past month that was a waste of time.
Some of my personal observations about Dr. Dan Shike…
He’s not a one trait judge and calves don’t have to have a ton of bone or a freaky front end for him to use them. If I had to describe what I saw him taking yesterday it would be ‘balanced calves with power’.
If he doesn’t have any sound calves with enough power, he’ll take an unsound one.
He won’t overlook smaller calves.
Unlike some other judges here lately, he puts movement in a market steer where it belongs, as a secondary trait that can be used to differentiate between two otherwise closely matched steers.
Also unlike some recent judges here, he doesn’t seem to be sacrificing end product for movement just because the theoretical heifer mates won’t be able to move around in whatever fantasy field it is these non-existent heifers are running around in.
The kids are not done with him until they’re out of the arena. Numerous times he took kids from the line heading out the gate and eventually moved them into placing positions. At least once the class winner was almost out the gate by the time he pulled it.
He’ll use black calves to the point that people showing colored calves thought he was showing a bias toward them. Personally, the past few slick majors are leading me to believe that judges are coming around to the idea that they might have been victim to an optical illusion from color and have corrected it.
Getting to the Show
Is still just as big a pain in the ass as it's always been with most waiting 10+ hours in line.
Our Herd Bull, Stern
Sent three steers through the ring yesterday and branded a Simmental and an ABC.
Care to Guess
Whether this calf’s momma was one of the ones we lost to bloat and whether or not he has a now orphaned 250-lb full brother out in the field?
One More Thanks
To Stockshowlive.com for the broadcast. I cannot describe how nice it is to have the results posted so quickly and to have a complete archive of every class.
Overall Champion
Either the Chi (from Martin), Charolais (from Brandon Horn/Potts), or Simmental (Tommy Schroeder/Rash). Oh, or maybe the AOB. Shocking stuff right there, I know.
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Problems with Google Voice
Be warned, this is sort of unintentionally obscene.
Since, unlike you, I’m a very safe driver I use the voice recognition on my phone to send texts. Errors with Google voice recognition like what follow almost make losing a cow that’s produced a reserve champion Red Angus in San Antonio worth it…
Me: 83 died.
Brother: How many is that?
Me: 7
Me: we had a hoe down her throat when she suck a dick
Me: hose
Me: ah crap suffocatedBrother: mbe thats wht killed her
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Wednesday, February 22nd
San Antonio
The 2nd largest market steer show in the nation, but the one that seemingly nobody in the Midwest gives two farts about, starts today. There’s a live broadcast with taped classes on Stockshowlive.com.
Burr Clover
Prior to this year we lost MAYBE a combined three cows to bloat from burr clover in our entire memory. It was the kind of thing that would happen every few years but not with any sort of regularity. The most cows we’ve had die on the place for any reason at all in any given year was three. That was a pretty bad year.
We’ve lost SIX cows (we're running about 140...ummm..134 right now) in the past two weeks, all to bloat. It’s not like we are just letting them die, they’ve had mineral, bloat blocks, and hay since February 8th. One of them died the day after we spent two hours moving her around to get the bloat down.
I don’t know if it’s due to a lack of competition after the drought but the stuff is thicker than it’s ever been and it’s everywhere, there’s nowhere they can avoid it. If we take the cows completely off of pasture and put them in a feedlot the clover will just keep growing and will be even worse when they do eventually go back into the fields.
I’m Glad
I have no clue what exactly went on with somebody who felt scorned posting to a judge’s Facebook wall.
I Wonder
If the ex-boyfriends of people like Adele and Taylor Swift have same pride in the songs they helped inspire that small show calf breeders have in their calves.
They Should
Just call the first two AOB classes at San Antonio and Houston midget classes.
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Stockshowlive.com
There’s a new standard in stock show internet broadcasting. You’re used to static camera web cams and you’ve even seen a few that included a live commentary with background on some of the calves being show.
What you haven’t seen is anything like what Stock Show Live is doing this week in San Antonio.
Some of the features…
- Archived video of previous classes.
- Full results of previous classes.
- Breeder and sire information for previous breed champions.
- Free to view.
- Moving camera to follow the action.
Simply put, it's flat out jaw dropping what they're doing this week.
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Who places in San Antonio?
There's hair all over the ground and you can almost smell the Zilmax in the air (about that, you should probably put a mask on or something). That can mean only one thing, the first big slick show of the year, San Antonio, is next week.
The 4-H Counties and FFA chapters that have branded the most steers in San Antonio since 2007…
- Marion FFA 18
- Lampasas FFA 16
- Gillespie County 4-H 16
- East Central FFA 14
- Brazos County 4-H 14
- Guadalupe County 4-H 13
- Kendall County 4-H 13
- Karnes County 4-H 12
- Poth FFA 12
- Prosper FFA 12
Almost all of that list consists of ‘local’ kids other than the Brazos County 4-H and Prosper FFA (Wade Shackelford) powerhouses.
Did you know that the median household income in Prosper, Tx is over $100,000?
We’ve run the data on both San Antonio and Houston based on the information they provide on their websites. We didn’t do Ft. Worth because they don’t allow you to go back years and I couldn’t find anything on Austin or San Angelo.
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Forum Activity Report 11/9/11 to 2/9/12
Another report I haven’t done in quite some time, this is the forum activity share for the time period 11/9/11 to 2/9/12.
- Cattle-Today 52.1%
- Steerplanet 23.6%
- Ranchers.net 18.9%
- Keeny's Corner 3.4%
- 5BarX 1.3%
- Clubcalves 0.4%
- EDJE 0.3%
- Breedersworld 0.1%
Overall forum posting was up to just over 800 posts per day for the time period.
Keeny’s Corner showed up with a respectable 3.4% in the first time they’ve been tracked as a part of this report.
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Livestock Merchandising "Review"
I’m finally done reading Thinking Fast and Slow (summary: everything is chance, you just think people are skilled because you are stupid and don’t understand statistics) and had a chance to read Rachel Cutrer’s new book, Livestock Merchandising.
Short and simple review: You need this book, go buy it.
I don’t know that there’s another book I’d say that about. If you read this blog, the odds that you sell cattle by any method other than hauling them to the local auction barn are pretty darn good. If you do fit that description, this book covers just about everything you could possibly want to know.
Rachel’s been one of the pioneers of the print/web/general livestock marketing industry and is found in the ‘pedigrees’ of a surprisingly large number of other service companies. Her credentials on the subject are unparalleled.
That's now why I'm telling you to buy the book, I'm telling you to buy it because you really do need it. Frankly, and I don’t say this because I’m being lazy or overly nice, I don’t think I can review this book well enough to do it justice. It’s got enough information that I have no doubt it’s going to end up in collegiate livestock marketing classes but it’s easy enough to read that anybody can pick it up and learn something in just a few minutes.
When I say go buy it, I mean it, really. That’s some of the best advice I’m going to give you this year.
Chapter List
- Marketing Purebred Livestock
- Trends in Livestock Advertising
- Components Used in Livestock Promotions
- Print Advertising Design
- Livestock Photography & Video
- Brochures, Catalogs and Direct Mail
- Livestock Web Design
- Signage for Livestock Producers
- The Role of Livestock Shows as Advertising
- Social Media for Livestock Producers
- Email Marketing for Livestock Producers
- Establishing your Advertising Budget
- Sire Promotion Basics
- Ethics in Livestock Advertising
- Customer Service
- Putting it All Together
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Verrrrry Solid American
Editing video for the sale and captured this...
Sells as lot #7 in the South Texas Select Club Calf Sale at 11 AM on Sunday, February 26th. Sale is located between Pleasanton and Floresville on HWY 97 at HK Farms. It's a 30-minute drive from the San Antonio stock show and the sale will be held the last Sunday, the day of the livestock judging contest.
Calf is sired by a Godfather son and out of a 1/2 blood Brahman cow. As far as I can tell he's polled.
Consigned by UR Show Calves. Call Ronnie Ussery @ 830.569.3877 for more info.
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Cattle Site Visitor Report - December 2012
Based on December data, I skipped November for some reason…
- Cattle Today Sites - 21.81%
- CattleNetwork.com - 18.97% (4)
- Cattle.com - 12.91% (2)
- Cattlerange.com - 12.14% (3)
- Beefmagazine.com - 10.36%
- Steerplanet.com - 9.54%
- Showsteers.com - 8.29%
- Cattlepages.com - 1.50%
- Clubcalves.com - 1.00%
- Mattlautnercattle.com - 0.65%
These rankings are based on triangulated data from Compete, Quantcast, and Google.
How correlated is the information on those three services?
Quantcast & Compete - .863
Quantcast & Google - .834
Compete & Google - .949
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Updated Collegiate Livestock Judging Rankings
Now includes results from the Iowa Beef Expo and Sioux Falls...
| Rank | Team | Rating |
| 1 | Oklahoma State University | 1.553 |
| Top Finish: 2nd @ 2012 National Western | ||
| 2 | Iowa State University | 1.551 |
| Top Finish: 1st @ 2012 Iowa Beef Expo | ||
| 3 | Texas A&M University | 1.551 |
| Top Finish: 1st @ 2012 National Western | ||
| 4 | Colorado State University | 1.493 |
| Top Finish: 2nd @ 2012 Fort Worth | ||
| 5 | Kansas Sate University | 1.477 |
| Top Finish: 1st @ 2012 Fort Worth | ||
| 6 | Western Illinois University | 1.466 |
| Top Finish: 2nd @ 2012 Iowa Beef Expo | ||
| 7 | Texas Tech University | 1.460 |
| Top Finish: 4th @ 2012 National Western | ||
| 8 | University of Illinois | 1.437 |
| Top Finish: 6th @ 2012 Sioux Falls | ||
| 9 | West Texas A&M University | 1.430 |
| Top Finish: 5th @ 2012 National Western | ||
| 10 | University of Georgia | 1.425 |
| Top Finish: 1st @ 2011 Arizona National | ||
The top three are essentially tied but OSU jumped A&M because after five contests are put into the system the relative strength of each contest comes into play. Next year we won't publish the ranking until after the IBE.
Iowa State is right in that top three tie after wins at both the Sioux Falls and Iowa Beef Expo contests.
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Crystal Young Blog
I hate, hate, hate getting into animal welfare stuff and/or linking to it. You can actively see my eyes glaze over any time somebody brings up Peta and HSU.....snif....what we were talking about again?
But, well, this is actually pretty good...
Chipotle your Grammy commercial still doesn't change my mind.
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Classification Percentages
Percent of calves classed out of breed and into ABC/AOB at Houston in 2011 based on information in this year’s premium book…
- Angus - 41%
- Simbrah - 37%
- Brangus - 36%
- Polled Hereford - 22%
- Brahman - 21%
- Hereford - 20%
- ABC - 17%
- Limousin - 17%
- Red Angus - 15%
- Shorthorn - 9%
- Chianina - 8%
- Santa Gertrudis - 7%
I thought that Simbrah class looked relative weak last year and was told they were tough on them but that's certainly surprising to see the number that high.
No surprise, Angus is #1. Forgive me if I don't weep for the poor poor Angus breeders that aren't going to bat an eye at telling the world that two similar carcasses are worth different amounts if they had different color hides.
Brangus is #3 for similar reasons.
According to the data on the HSLR website, nothing was classed out of Simmental or Charolais, but how exactly do you class out of Chianina?
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Bloat
Man the clover came on fast this year.
We're down two cows and a calf in just two days. We'd likely be down more if we weren't running around chasing them all day to keep them moving.
We finally found some bloat mineral and blocks and are forcing the cows to eat it.
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High Heels and Pasterns
I’m fairly confident I looked like a pervert at Target just before I wrote this.
On Monday, we went through every calf in the herd picking them all apart structurally to get a good idea of what does or does not have the potential. A big part of that obviously involves watching the pasterns closely for flex. Evidently I paid such close attention for an hour or so that it sunk into my head pretty solidly. So, fast forward to an hour ago at the Target in a relatively upscale area of San Antonio…
Have you ever noticed how much high heels vs. comfortable shoes on women mimic structural correctness in cattle?
I sure did.
After it clicked in my head while seeing some woman wearing what could only be described by somebody like me as "stripper shoes" I couldn’t help but keep staring at her legs as she walked away. My wife edits this (when she can), so yeah, I’m pretty solid in my stance that this was a “business expense”, not pleasure. Seriously, stop looking at me that way.
Anyway, her ankles didn’t flex at all, she was WAY too straight. Her knees didn’t move properly and she walked like she was extremely stuck up and in pain. You know, just like a calf that is too hard off his pasterns does.
In what, in hind sight, was not one of the proudest moments of my life, I then started looking at every woman’s feet and how they walked. The lower the heel and thus more angle to the heel, the more smoothly they walked. You know, just like show calves.
So, before I dig a hole I can’t get out of…long story short: dads, if you need to teach your boys about structural correctness, go stare at women walking in the mall. Tell your wives I told you to.
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Observations from Tuesday
This only applies to a VERY small handful of you, but if you were offended by Monday’s post, you take yourself way too seriously and must be a blast at parties. It wasn’t an attack on anybody. While it was based in reality, it was meant to do nothing more than make fun of how cliched those interviews are and how absolutely preposterous the money involved is at the very top of the top end of show steers.
NO
I did not buy a $9,000 bull that "should rival Solid Gold, Troubadour, Milkman, and Yellow Jacket in semen sales his first year out" last night and I don't know why you people keep asking me that.
Leave me alone.
Ralgro vs Synovex
Not a review on the hormones themselves but Ralgro guns are SOOO much easier to use.
Good Kind of Problems
Bloat blocks are pretty much sold out in this region, at least I know we can't find any. One guy told me of a ranch in Seguin (east of San Antonio) that lost four cows to bloat from clover.
Losing a few cows due to a preventable problem vs. being forced to sell out due to drought is a no contest.
Adele
I learned that she's not an overweight black chick, she's actually white, and for some reason I don't like her music at all now.
Gomer Bull Sale
We actually turned a profit off of our last gomer bull yesterday. We bought him as an 8-12 month old for $300 (they’re Jerseys), paid $200 for the surgery, used him for three years until he got big enough to be mean, and sold him for $800 through the auction barn.
Speaking of the Auction Barn
We also hauled in an open tiger stripe heifer that jumped out of the crowding alley leading to the sale ring, ran around on the outside rail where the guys that work the cattle into the ring stand, held up the sale for a solid five minutes, and all where the buyers could see it happening. I honestly don't make this stuff up.
She still brought $1.29/lb at ~850 lbs.
Oh and…
We threw three calves that averaged 325 on the trailer to test the market on the lower end steers.
$2.14/lb.
Un-be-liev-able.
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How
did somebody think that would taste good?
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Quote of the Night
"He should rival Solid Gold, Troubadour, Milkman, and Yellow Jacket in semen sales his first year out."
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2012 Collegiate Livestock Judging Ranking
Generally loved by the students and abhored by coaches, the initial 2012 collegiate livestock judging power rankings are out...
| Rank | Team | Rating |
| 1 | Texas A&M University | 1.800 |
| Top Finish: 1st @ 2012 National Western | ||
| 2 | Oklahoma State University | 1.785 |
| Top Finish: 2nd @ 2012 National Western | ||
| 3 | Iowa State University | 1.739 |
| Top Finish: 3rd @ 2012 National Western | ||
| 4 | Colorado State University | 1.694 |
| Top Finish: 2nd @ 2012 Fort Worth | ||
| 5 | Kansas Sate University | 1.617 |
| Top Finish: 1st @ 2012 Fort Worth | ||
| 6 | Texas Tech University | 1.617 |
| Top Finish: 4th @ 2012 National Western | ||
| 7 | University of Georgia | 1.602 |
| Top Finish: 1st @ 2011 Arizona National | ||
| 8 | West Texas A&M University | 1.556 |
| Top Finish: 5th @ 2012 National Western | ||
| 9 | University of Illinois | 1.556 |
| Top Finish: 7th @ 2012 National Western | ||
| 10 | Western Illinois University | 1.465 |
| Top Finish: 8th @ 2012 National Western | ||
Visit Livestockjudging.com for full ranking.
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Honest Grand Champion Sale Interview
By and large, the grand champions at the biggest of the big stock shows are just a bit like sausage. They’re a great, inspiring story until you start looking into how they’re made. That’s not to say that I don’t love putting a few links on the BBQ, I’d just prefer to not think about what exactly it is I’m eating most of the time.
That being said, once, just once, I’d like to see a kid that wins a Texas major be honest when they do that interview with the local press at the auction. They always go the same way, some reporter who’s never touched a calf asks what the kid’s going to do with the money and the kid says “pay for college”. The reporter asks where they’re going to go to school and if their grades are good enough they say Texas A&M...unless they're from the panhandle in which case they say Texas Tech.
What would an honest interview sound like?
Reporter - “So what are you going to do with the money?”
Kid - “I’m going to go to college of course.”Reporter – “Oh wow, that is amazing, do you want to take a moment to say thank you to the buyers for supporting the youth in the state of Texas?”
Kid – “Well, about that, can I be honest with you?”
Reporter - “Sure, of course”
Kid – “I don’t want to mislead anybody, ‘supporting Texas youth’ might be a bit of a stretch here. Yeah, sure, the people who actually profit from this whole game; the guy I bought the calf from, the guy he bought it from, the guy he bought the genetics from, and the sale managers and jocks that facilitated all of those sales may or may not have kids. Some of them do, sure, but I saw that he did pretty good here in Ft Worth too. The thing is, a very good portion of the net profit from all of this goes to professional show steer guys up in Oklahoma. So sure, it sounds really good and all but I don’t know if that counts as supporting youth in the state of Texas.”
Reporter – “Professionals?”
Kid – “Yeah, the guys whose entire living is based on buying and selling these steers when they're babies. There's nothing really wrong with it, this is a free country and there's a demand for it, I just don't want you guys to be mislead as to where this money actually goes.”
Reporter – “But you just said you were going to use the money for college?”
Kid - “Well, yeah, kind of. My family is rich and paying for college was never going to be an issue for me. Frankly, if I were really doing this for college money we wouldn’t have won because we wouldn’t have spent the money you have to in order to win. You see, my dad could have sent me to Texas A&M and had enough left over to send another kid as well if we’d have just saved the money we spent on this big guy here and put it in a savings account. If we would have just not shown steers this year we could have sent half a dozen kids to school on really good scholarships.”
Reporter - “Ummmm…”
Kid - “And another thing, I know we just brought $xxx,xxx through the sale but please wish me luck down the road because I really need to win big at the next major too.”
Reporter - “WHAT? Why?”
Kid - “Well, you see, this isn’t the only $xx,xxx calf I have. We actually have a whole string of them at home, each of them likely worth more than your car, you know, being a journalism major and all.”
Reporter - “A string?”
Kid - “Yeah, we started out with a dozen $xx,xxx calves but sold a few to other rich families, sent a few to the auction barn because they didn't pan out, some just won't be good enough to win a major, and long story short, we’re down to only half a dozen or so of them now.”
Reporter - “ummm, back to you guys?
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$155,000 for Reserve Grand Steer
…in Fort Worth.
That’s going to just about the only time that Brian Martin won’t be able to say he could have sold it for more as a prospect steer.
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Information
Do you remember back in the stone age when it actually took a while before you knew anything about the grand steer at big shows?
Today, if were paying attention online, within two hours of the hip being slapped you can now know…
- Calf was by Heat Wave
- Shown by Cuatro Schauer
- Sold by Adam Potts (and what his parents look like)
- Raised by Travis Otterstadt
- Embryo from Brandon Horn 419
- Full sib to the steer sells in Donors Unlimited
- Picture of the grand drive
- Picture of the calf being checked in the vet’s office
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Adam Potts Interview
Interview with Adam Potts, who sold the calf that was just crowned grand champion in Ft Worth to Cuatro Schauer, from the yards a few weeks ago…
...the steer he metnions in the interview belonged to the same kid that won Ft. Worth today.
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Fort Worth Breed Counts
Approximate breed counts from Fort Worth thanks to Jared P. Harrell…
Angus – 86
Hereford – 99
Polled Hereford – 85
Shorthorn – 161
American – 121
European - 804Total - 1,356
BTW, we all knew Jared was destined for things larger than the rest of us in college but if you want to feel like your college degree is just some worthless piece of paper on the wall, go check out Jared’s LinkedIn page. Ag engineering at Texas A&M, law degree from the University of Texas, and then he went to Oxford to top it off.
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Denver Interview - Harley Blegen
An interview about a breed of cattle you may have never really given much thought to, Galloway...
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Thursday, February 2nd
I promise I'm going to start posting the interviews very soon.
Since I can't seem to find an online broadcast of the Fort Worth steer show, I'll provide the next best thing, a live feed of my staring at my computer screen all day.
Here's a link to the office cam I have running for our game customers...
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