Plenty money around?

[grassfarmer]

kato you will find that the Limo cross muscle a lot better than the Gelveih cross, although the Gelvieh are great maternal cows.
Limo calves are up and going at birth thats for sure. I have a whole bunch of them ready to calve in a couple of weeks, so the Limo breed is dear to my heart although I don't have single vision when it comes to cattle color !

[rkaiser]

Hay whiteface, -----Who the hull is Booby Hull. I've been to a few strip joints but never got her autograph yet.

[rkaiser]

Hay whiteface, -----Who the hull is Booby Hull. I've been to a few strip joints but never got her autograph yet.

[cowsense]

Cowman- We get along quite well selling Herefords both as feeders and as replacement females. Our customers feel they can control their maintenance costs better with British cows and have a good base to crossbreed with! We've also had bull customers buy bulls to breed char heifers and report that their buckskin calves are outweighing and outselling their white calves out of their cows! Shows that hybrid vigour works!

[cswilson]

Gelv/Char cows would be too big my bulls would be afraid of them lol.WE ran chars for 30 plus years here but any limos or guppies we had were wild as mountain scenery.

[whiteface]

Very funny, kaiser, you ready fer yer sale yet??!!

[rkaiser]

Will be as soon as cswilson decides which dozen he plans on buying.

Cory - I give up on this email pictures crap. Send me your adress and I will go out and do a video of the cows this afternoon and mail it to you.

Randy

[kpb]

grassfarmer and rkaiser, do you guys think that Soderglen makes money on their sale? Just wondering--I've been to their sale a few times and their overhead must be fantastic. I know they get big prices for their animals but most purebred guys I know don't have that sort of huge overhead that Soderglen does. I know there was big oil money behind it but as a stand alone operation I'm curious to know if you guys think a large, capital intensive purebred operation makes money.

[rkaiser]

Have you ever heard of their CREDIT program kpb. Once you buy one bull from Soderglen, it's pretty hard not to come back. I'm just guessing, but I would say that at least $1000.00 of their average is due to this credit program.

As far as making money, good question, but the bottom line is they don't need to make money from the cattle. Land in their area is worth mega bucks, and inflation is rampant.

I do respect Scott and Elan for the tight ship they run, and you have to give them some credit for producing a consistant and pretty darn good product.

They don't hurt the industry, but the world of Soderglen is not the same world as most ranchers in Canada.

If you could take a look at their buyers list their would be a lot of Oil money boys their as well.

Sure does create conversation though doen't it.

[grassfarmer]

I would agree Randy, Scott and Elan do a great job - but they get quite a bit of help by not being financially limited. I note that they have expanded their operation by buying 3 ranches south of SW of Cardston which will summer 1000 cows. That's the stuff dreams are made of - imagine what that cost?