Sidneyfarmer - 3/17/2024 16:03

I hope they don't shoot the breed in the foot. A friend who sold his dairy herd and got in to the beef cattle a few years before I did, got in to those French Salers cattle with some other guys here in Michigan. Some of the others got greedy and started trying to sell every bull that hit the ground as service bulls without any testing or anything. They flushed that whole enterprise down the toilet as quick as it got started. I used a Salers on about 30 cows one year. I couldn't tell the calves from Angus, but I haven't even heard of the breed in fifteen years or more. They're gone.

I've watched things change on the MCA sale over the last 15-20 years or so. Seems like almost everything that was black was an Angus for a long time. There were more Hereford and Charolais back then too. No Charolais this year and only two Herefords, a lot of Simmental, Sim Angus and Red Angus.