A2O-L—frtfFanrit, Satwd«y,lano«ry 29,1983
LANCASTER Two cattle
feeders and two cattle buyers
“took the bull by the horns”
Tuesday as each shared with more
than 200 fellow beef fanners the
secrets to raising marketable
cattle.
Leading off the panel was Marty
Eberly who voiced his likes and
dislikes in a “no room for doubt”
manner.
“I like big, growthy calves,”
said Eberly. “Give me 400-450
pound medium frame number
ones, either Angus or an Angus x
Charolais steer.”
Hie Lancaster County farmer
buys calves several times a year
and feeds them for about 300 days
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War n lasted only 16 months. Since
the current recession has exceeded
this record by two months, Boyd
said he is “optimistic the recession
is dose to ending."
Some good signs, he said, are
“little chance of reacceleration of
inflation,” coupled with a lower
production cost for farmers.
“Things will remain rather
tough on the farm," concluded
Boyd, “but it’s good to see
favorable costs of production of
which interest rates will be a
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until they reach the ideal weight
of 1,250 pounds and will grade high
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Eberly noted that moat of his
heavy cattle are sold during-the
months of July and August
“That’s when I feel there’s a
bigger price spread between
grades,” he said.
EDenys reeding program
combines the benefits of haylage
for protein, com silage, protein
supplement, com, and a feed
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out that his steers are implanted
three times with Ralgro.
“I like to finish up with a good
conformation steer real thick
and not gobby,” explained Eberly.
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“I like to open up and get them
outside where they can move
around and exercise, not have
them all the time on slats. And I
don’t hit them with too hot a ration
too fast.”
Showing that there are as many
differences in cattle feeders as
there are in steers, Lancaster
County farmer Jim Kettering
explained that in his beef feeding
business, steers are bought in at
750-800 pounds. Kettering said he
prefers a crossbred steer; its color
can be black, black white-face, red
or mouse-gray.
Kettering takes his steers to the
1,200-1,300 pound finish by feeding
5-7 pounds of high moisture ear
corn and silage to start, after being
fed hay their first week in the lot,
wormed, deloused, medicated and
implanted. After a period of two to
three months, the steers are in
creased to 14-16 pounds of high
moisture shelled corn with
Rumensin.
His ultimate feeding goal is to
get his cattle to a Grade 2 or 3, said
Kettering. “To go any higher
would take too long and more
feed,” he said, adding that he could
also risk a cut in price for over
heavy cattle.
Although Kettering said most of
his steers are farm-fresh from
Virgnia, West Virginia, or
Maryland, he explained that he
tries to buy feeders year-round.
“If we sell some fat cattle and
get stung in price, we turn right
around and buy another load that
same day,” he said, adding that
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sending steers to market all year
allows him to average out the
market highs and lows.
“I don’t board steers, I feed
steers,” concluded Kettering with
confidence.
Bob Summy and-RickJdarshall,
meat packing company cattle
buyers, shared their thoughts on
the ideal fed steer or heifer
stressing the cattle should be yield
Cattle Feeders' Day Committee Member Ken Meek, center,
reviews the day’s agenda with Lancaster County Livestock
Agent Chet Hughes as cattle marketing panelist Jim Ket
tering, left, looks on.
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grades 2 or 3 and should weigh
more than 700 pounds without too
much fat.
Said Summy, “I don’t care what
color they are, just so they grade.”
He added that the exotic cattle
breeds “don’t grade as well as
English,” noting that these bigger
cattle are ‘‘meat builders instead
of fat builders.”
Marshall stressed the need for
more beef promotion.
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