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4191727. Check out progeny.
Edit...this is the wrong reg #. The correct # is 4191717.

This must be the wrong registration number because 4191727 has Maine up close.

Thanks, idalee, I made a typing error. The correct reg# is 4191717. Tattoo 2011. I�m going to fix it in the post above.

what are the most successful shorthorn breeders that have penetration into the commercial market and what is range of number of bulls sold to commercial market?


any commercial producers out there using shorthorns with retained ownership?

i wouldn't call cattle that gave good premiums commodity cattle.


any commercial producers that use shorthorn that excel on premiums?

I am using Native dual purpose because, like beebe, my purpose is grass finishing. My belief is that Shorthorn genetics, and the genetics of other Native dual purpose breeds, are more flexible in their ability to balance the many energy trade offs involved in milk production and resource availability. It�s not just pounds of meat that the grass finisher and direct marketer must produce, it�s pounds of milk to raise pounds of calves calves without supplementation. Good old dual purpose A2A2 milk from a cow that can maintain her condition during lactation without artificial inputs is the grass finishers best source of development in the calf. Then we have to keep that milk flesh going forward into fine grained tender muscle.

This bull, for example, looks like a beef type Shorthorn, but would his daughters produce beef like the Hub�s daughters. I seriously doubt it, unless he were crossed on dual type cows. This is the wheel most Heritage Breeders are reinventing...a tradition of crossing beef type on dual type. It works. But you can�t make it work without the old dual purpose genetics, in my opinion. As usual, Shorthorn is all about the cows.