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<blockquote data-quote="Stocker Steve" data-source="post: 1619671" data-attributes="member: 1715"><p>The classic farming approach to shrinking margins is to increase volume, but that is difficult with a high labor enterprise like nurse cows.</p><p></p><p>I did ask a feedlot rep about reduced demand for dairy steers. He said one previous packer quit buying them, and another packer only bought them seasonally. So I asked why aren't they buying them. He said dairy steers were harder to process. I think the root issue is the remaining kill plants can contract to get enough beef steers.</p><p></p><p>Seems like we are back to that higher volume thing.</p><p></p><p>An interesting trend that came up was putting male beef embryos into dairy cows and eliminating dairy x beef breeding. They reported that they have reduced the cost of this to about $30. Sounds really cheap. So more beef steers?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stocker Steve, post: 1619671, member: 1715"] The classic farming approach to shrinking margins is to increase volume, but that is difficult with a high labor enterprise like nurse cows. I did ask a feedlot rep about reduced demand for dairy steers. He said one previous packer quit buying them, and another packer only bought them seasonally. So I asked why aren't they buying them. He said dairy steers were harder to process. I think the root issue is the remaining kill plants can contract to get enough beef steers. Seems like we are back to that higher volume thing. An interesting trend that came up was putting male beef embryos into dairy cows and eliminating dairy x beef breeding. They reported that they have reduced the cost of this to about $30. Sounds really cheap. So more beef steers? [/QUOTE]
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