Posted by rrlund on February 19, 2022 at 08:59:32 from (173.225.193.6):
In Reply to: Re: Animal Exports posted by NY 986 on February 19, 2022 at 08:34:14:
You're kind making Bruce's point at the same time though. Your perspective would depend on whether you made more profit selling milk or selling cattle and genetics. Hind site's 20/20. How many times do you have the chance to make money today doing what you do that your first thought is of what will happen 20 years down the road? Especially if that deal is just something as simple as selling cattle like you always have? Why would you care if you helped increase production for your next door neighbor or somebody in a foreign country? Selling them overseas would actually be a point of pride. Since we didn't even have many dairy exports way back when, you'd probably rather have sent those cattle out of the country than increase production here.
Getting back to Bruce's point, we had a guy here who's family had bred Holsteins for generations. He had kind of an attitude and did a lot of strutting. Fact was, all he gave a darn about was pedigrees and didn't care at all about production. I found that out at a young age, but not before it cost me a fair amount of money. I bought some cows from him and gave more for them than I'd have had pay for some good grade cows. They were the most worthless cows I ever owned. When I started mentioning it around the community, that was when I started hearing stories. The one that sent the biggest feeling of dred and anxiety down my neck was from his own hired man. He said he had a few cows that would produce, but for the most part, he only cared about pedigrees. That place stands empty now too. All the fences have been taken out and the land is rented out.
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