Ohlde Cattle Company | The American Rancher

[Music] coming up many of our customers are selling their extra females they're getting a pretty good premium sometimes 200 on the bread heifers and 10 15 20 cents over steer price and we can feed these cattle 60 days of grain rather than 140 days of grain and still run 80 90 choice hear the story of one of the most successful low-input beef programs in the business next on the american rancher [Music] hello and welcome to the american rancher i'm pam minnick today we're in palmer kansas at oldie cattle company where tim trudy and their son jake have developed one of the lowest input beef cattle seed stock programs in the industry oldie angus cattle can finish on grain or grass which is attractive for grass finishing programs and translates into commercial cows requiring less feed to maintain body condition score the oldies have a lifelong passion for raising cattle and now their cattle are in demand by ranchers across the country my mom always said i went to sleep at night when i was eight years old with a book cowbook in my hand and she'd go to bed and take the book out of my hand and set it out from underneath the covers i even did it with a flashlight because i wasn't supposed to be doing it so i had that passion and i've still got that passion you know i could retire i'm 70 but i enjoy almost every day what i do i met my wife in the mid-80s she was a student at cal poly university and i saw her working her butt off so i kept my eyes on anybody that could work and had a passion and so i talked her into coming out and doing an internship and she did i got involved because my love for animals from the day i was born i think i said horse before i said anything else kind of went on through college with an animal science degree and an ag education degree as an undergrad and then i went on to k-state and got a master's degree in growth and development and reproduction but actually ended up joining tim with the operation and i guess you'd say the rest is history we finally decided to get married should have earlier than what i did but so she's very integral she knows the cattle you have to be willing to put your heart and soul into it and you darn well better love it because some days are not as rosy as the others getting up you know with it's cold and working with calves or whatever else and no matter what you're doing there's always going to be a an element of having to take care of something when it's not in a favorable condition and with the numbers we have sometimes and the limited help we have sometimes the days get awful long and that is with anybody that's in this industry knows that we really try to make sure what we sell people is what they need and we'll correct what they need or keep what they've got and trudy is very good at that on the phone with semen or whatever and they'll say well i want to use this bull and treat he said well what are you wanting to do you want them less size you want better others and she will stare which way she feels they should do it and then they might call me up and say what do you think and i'll say whatever truth he said because it'd probably be the same i love visiting with my customers i love to help them see the light basically as far as what they're looking for they need to fit their cattle to their environments many people are are at the stage right now that they they're confused they're reading epds they're listening to the marketing pressures of all different things and stuff and they're not sure which direction to go and the selections that they make right now will affect them for many years to come especially if they're keeping their own replacement females and if they use a bull whether it be ai or natural right now if then keep the females that can affect them as many as ten years down the road if those females stay in the herd to be eight to ten years old those cattle that don't really cut it still tend to stay in the herd because it's expensive to raise a replacement you've got two more years in a calf to get it into production versus a cow that may be eating you out of the house and home but she's still producing you don't make mistakes you know and like the german says you make a mistake of the wrong bull one time in two or three years calf crop you might spend 10 years correcting that mistake you might not live long enough so you really don't want to make mistakes and i'm not afraid to say yeah you want this but it ain't what you need so i'm telling you that right now i'll sell you that animal or that semen but see what happens in three or four years and hopefully you're right and i'm wrong but sometimes maybe you didn't need to change it and it's hard to change you know we got a lot of this injury forces epds and numbers and bigness and growth and not a lot on total profitability and so we get caught up in that and so the people that can read numbers i think especially the younger people you know it's hard to use their eyeball to evaluate their cattle you know not just in confirmation but in longevity flushing you know when you say she's feminine you know she's deep flying she's easy keeping that ain't a number up next in order to get cattle to finish on grass genetics is a very important part of it see how oldie beef genetics are matching up to important shifts in consumer demands that's after the break here on the american rancher [Music] welcome back to the american rancher recent shifts and consumer beef demands are here to stay and with 40 years of successful low-input beef genetic development oldie cattle company is in the right place at the right time so we kind of got four lines we have basically the registered angus which is still the same clothesline of cattle we have the angus twos which are we culminate mostly angus freezing using the same angus bloodlines we have the fluct we call them with fleck fiangus which again fleck feeds the strain of cemental a little more beef type and then we've kind of delved into a heat tolerant where we've brought angus a little flack and a little central so we gain a little bone and structure over the center poles we get the heat tolerance of the center pole really moderate but extremely slick air to work in the fescue and the southern deal is an alternative the ramen cattle so those are a quarter and eight centipole which go to the endama cattle from africa which are very resistant to worms and insects and everything he's a bull called texas red quarter centipole three quarter red angus [Music] and very slick he's kind of where we like we sell a lot of his sons that'll be eighth centipedal uh he actually a lot of people think he's just a red angus bull and we kind of say well that's what he is with slicker hair but he's got a little heterosis with the cenopole very good bowl very easy calving very low birth weight 65 75 pound calves that's bull just came off of breeding 60 cows two weeks ago in the fall and he ran with 40 cows last spring so he ran 100 cows in about seven months and he still held his condition extremely well very easy keeping ball i wanted to make my composite better than angus not bigger than angus not growthier in angus better and so the friesian probably first i wanted them tighter udders there you can see the balance of the udder perfectly level very small teats just like a two-year-old better feet and legs more longevity more soundness more fertility and that eighth to sixteenth doesn't then we decided to flex because they're probably as functional as the friesian so they're most popular breed in the world in most countries in europe and there's a reason if a breed's good they populate they spread all over the world and that's where flectivis are found in like 60 countries so we've done the same with them same angus with a little fleck fee those cattle might have a little more bone maybe a little more growth not a lot kept the birth weight still down but this way we can utilize heterosis which everybody knows heterosis does some things a little more mainly an extra couple years of calves out of cows maybe one or two more calves a little more fertility that way we have guys that have used the straight angus and now they use the angus too for six eight years although they come to you put the flecks on them and when they get done with that they go back and put a straight angus bowl on them again i wanted to make these cattle work on forage i really believe and a lot of it was preached into me on my travels to europe in argentina you know where their forage developed and and they had to have a lot of gut a lot of capacity room and capacity i will give up some pounds to do this but the reality is cost of production in order to make a profit you've got to keep your cow cost down or your input costs the highest input cost is feed so the older cattle company genetics are producing females that will go back into nearly any environment and produce well longevity is very important and we try to breed that into them as well so you got right there together a purebred angus eighth fleck and about a eight sixteenth freezing they just get better every year more uniform to me better is uniformity not bigger we like more than anything is extreme uniformity i don't want one bigger or a lot smaller we just same in our bowls we like to have them all exact kind of the same dimension i want a tremendous amount of middle in them some of the smarter people i ever met in argentina they always said get behind him i want to see a foot of belly stick out on both sides and of course they're seven eight months pregnant now but you can see about a foot of belly sticking out on both sides but you can see how tremendous body condition they are and they're just eating this cover crop so not a bunch of expensive silage or grain or cake or cubes or distillers i mean they look like they've been on silage or grain and they're not the feed yards want to feed more days they make money selling grain and yardage so they can feed cattle 180 versus 120 they're they're in favor of it so that's what they do and if if the cost of gain is 70 cents and the cattle are a dollar ten you think oh you're making more money so you tend to do is you select for cattle that are able to go to sixteen seventeen hundred pounds the problem is in respect to relationships of rib eye area per hundred weight of carcass you start getting into sixteen seventeen inch ribeyes and now the major meat people are saying whoa we got a little too big of ribeye maybe we want a thicker steak than a little narrow steak so if we can get a nice round steak this big that's better than a big flat steak two inches three inches bigger now not everybody will agree but most to the retailers selling it uh people ain't got the money to buy 20 ounce steaks so we got a good ribeye we got good muscle and our cattle show it and we can feed these cattle 60 days of grain rather than 140 days of grain and still run 80 90 choice we have gotten to the place in the beef industry where we've perhaps even selected for too many too much growth and translated into two into cuts of beef that are too big people desire smaller portions these days and the oldie cattle have a tremendous amount of muscle and ribeye they're probably the number one cattle for if you relate yearling weight and ribeye area they're probably number one in that category but the ribeye areas if you're thinking about steaks for example are in a size that's consumable easy flushing oldie cattle have significant market advantages including grass finishing in one of the fastest growing segments of the beef industry grass finishing genetics is a very important part of the beef industry today it's increased dramatically in the last several years and this last year with the covid has even stressed it even more there's been more interest in farm to market people want to know where their their food is coming from and they want to know that the beef that they're eating is coming from sustainable type programs and in order to get cattle to finish on grass genetics is a very important part of it the beef have to be cattle that can actually finish on a grass or forage basis the cattle that we are producing can do that the older genetics are accounting for probably about 80 percent of the successful grass finishing programs today holy cattle company genetics finish easily on grass the low input easy flushing cattle will finish out before they're two years old and that's a very different type of animal than what goes into the feed lot and is fed grain today coming up if the commercial cattleman can't make a living with his cow herd then there isn't a beef industry take a closer look at one of oldie cattle company's most important breeding philosophies that's after the break here on the american rancher stay with us [Music] welcome back to the american rancher after decades developing their low input beef genetics program the oldies now enjoy the fruits of hard work and dedication oldie cattle company produced seed stock built on generations of carefully selected genetic traits making every oldie bull and female a balanced trait low input success story it's kind of a unique operation when when a lot of the industry went that way oldie went that way and uh he knows how to develop bulls a lot of bulls have a tendency to fall apart when you get them to the ranch that's not a problem with an oldie bull this is the group of angus two bulls that'll be in our auction these are sired by different sires or zodiac variation a little bit in size there's some that are extremely good for the grass fattening some with a little more you can see what they're eating this is about 90 percent haylage with some ground grass hay and there's like a pound of distillers and they get about a pound and a half of grain screenings and that's it this bull right coming up here is number 319 g is out of as good of cows i've ever walked this place out of a zodiac sun he's a could be the ultimate for the grass fattening extreme quick maturity very fleshy this bull right there beside him is six or 344. terrifically good bull he's out of a rear end sun one of the high indexing bulls all but two or three of these will be in the sale the best set of angus 2 bulls we've ever sold this is a group of registered angus mostly all black these will be two year olds most all these bulls will be in the sale you know all our own kind of pedigrees there's zodiacs zodiac grandsons legacy echelon jet stream rear end big time accolade sons you know basically very line bread to the old 10 19 cow a lot of them will have that cow she went 21 years old and she'll be in the pedigree on some of these three four or five times [Music] a lot of 60 to 70 pound birth weight bulls we're cow people and take a lot of pride and put a lot of effort into making heifers that we like we we retain all of our females and we make all of our own cows they're advertised to be maternal cattle and that is exactly what they are they're moderate framed they're easy flushing they're structurally correct problem-free cattle whether it's giving birth taking care of that calf during the suckling phase weaning off a calf and getting re-bred we kind of want that to be i'm not automatic pilot i'm not saying that but with as little labor inputs as possible and i it just seems to me that tim has those kind of cattle if the commercial cattleman can't make a living with his cow herd then there isn't a beef industry in order to have females that will stay in a herd and produce year after year they need to be something that's more easy flushing has longevity and fit into nearly any environment the selection pressure today of the carcass cattle has taken some of that out of the commercial cattlemen's hands and so many people are not retaining their females but yet buying them and they're looking for cattle that are easy flushing so many of our customers are selling their extra females either in the form of heifer calves or as bred heifers they're getting a pretty good premium sometimes as much as 200 on the bread heifers and 10 15 20 cents on the heifer calves over steer price so these heifers would bring probably 23 to 2 400 very easily as a group or as your average type cattle that may be bigger even would bring 17 to 18 right now we're saying we want steers that'll bring top market price but we want the heifer mates to bring more than the steers we can sell not only steers that fit the market but we can also sell our heifer calves or bread heifers at a premium because many more people today are recognizing that these are the cattle that can bring you production at lower input costs that whether i'm running 300 or 500 or 1500 cows or more those seems to be the cows that are problem free with less labor inputs the genetics that he's offers for sale i just believe are unmatched by anybody else that i know of we've been very fortunate that the cattle basically sell themselves and for those people that have went kind of the one direction of the carcass and such are trying to get some fleshing ability and maternal back into their cattle and they're going back and using those bulls but we've used a lot of line breeding so back and forth with not only those bulls but other bulls and the 10 19 cow and the 6807 lines and so on and so forth these cattle work for for the commercial cattlemen and so they keep coming back time after time but oftentimes many people are scared to use genetics they're not as familiar with because they're afraid what what their neighbor might say usually neighbors will make fun of another neighbor until it works for somebody the neighbors look over the fence and see that gosh he's not feeding much hay and i'm driving by every day and i don't see him with a feed truck and i'm driving by with a feed truck and feeding mine how is he doing that well he gets with the neighbor and asks him and he says well that's all the cattle company genetics join tim trudy and jake at oldie ranch in palmer kansas on april 19 for their annual basic black bull and female sale visit superiorlivestock.com for more information and the sale will also be live on superior click to bid that's all the time we have today to learn more about us log on to the americanrancher.com or connect with us on facebook we'd love to hear from you i'm pam minnick for our entire american rancher team thanks for joining us we'll see you next time [Music] that was superior

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Length: 22min 4sec (1324 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 05 2021