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NC Kansas | To me it's a "stick with your program" thing or if you are changing your program, that's fine just stick with it for a while. If you have healthy cows and healthy calves they'll get along fine whether you wean them or someone else does. If you sell at the same barn every year about the same time, the buyers will remember you, for good or bad and bid accordingly. We typically sell off the cow and are happy with the results, once in a blue moon when we weaned, it seems like we did a lot of work for nothing. Until our facilities and man-power change we will stick with our program. Trying to wean and out guess what the market will be in 45-90 days is just like sitting on grain and hoping the price will go up... sometimes it goes down. To me it's all about condition of the calves and reputation... more so than how much they did or didn't gain when you weaned them.
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Does weaning calves really pay?
