Dr. Ron Gill

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Working Ranch Radio Show · Ep 262: Should She Stay? Rethinking Cull Cow Decisions w/ Dr. Ron Gill · 8 Aug 2026 podcast

I'd agree with that.

There's quite a few things you really gotta consider, whether her her age or her structure or utter or whatever it might be, will it last another year?

Not just because she's pregnant.

So we can't throw out the normal culling criteria just because the market's good.

Well, this mentality of well, let's keep her one more year, that may actually wind up costing you money because you'll have a cow that

that may still not wean a calf, but you've invested additional dollars or not replaced her with a productive female into the herd.

So one thing I see that can also get us in trouble is just dropping our normal culling procedures.

I think once we make those keep cold decisions, then we can go back in and say, well, is there an excuse for this cow or is this group of cows or whatever it might be?

But I don't think we can afford to abandon any kind of structural issues.

If they've got lameness, over the years I've tried to keep a cow that was a little bit lame.

Well, they always wind up being a problem.

Either you can't move them like you need to, they won't make it to market at the end, and they'd lose weight and condition and therefore value.

So rudders and feet and legs, I don't think we can give

much excuse for that in commercial production, but maybe there are some other things, body condition that's a result of our mismanagement or drought or something like that, then I think we have a little wiggle room, but

Structure and that kind of stuff, I think we need to stick with our normal culling procedures.

Yeah, you've invested enough money to get some young cattle up to production level.

In this market, you've got a pretty good investment in 'em.

And so either gotta sell 'em at a high value and keep some older cows and slow down your ability to rebuild an age group.

So that's another thing I don't think we can really afford to get out of our norm in replacement.

percentages just because it can throw off

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