Gene Raymond This is Me

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1. 1. 2005 MLBA

   www.missourilimousin.com/Misso - [Cached]

   Published on: 7/24/2004   Last Visited: 12/21/2005

   Gene Raymond -Guest Speaker.
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   left, guest speaker, Gene Raymond of Garnett, KS
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   Gene Raymond of Garnett, Kansas was the principal speaker of the evening. Raymond served as director on the North American Limousin Foundation Board of Directors for two terms and chaired the Commercial committee. He is a cattle feeder, seed stock producer, and an instructor at the Graham School in Garnett. He challenged all in attendance to look at the real world of cattle production. Raymond stated that seed stock producers should use shows as a means of presenting their cattle to the public. Shows have a place in the beef industry, if they are done professionally and meant to promote the breed in a positive way.
   
   Raymond took a quick survey to find out how many producers in the audience raised calves from birth to finish. Only one producer did. Most commercial and seed stock producers sell at weaning time. A few backgrounded their product before selling to the feedlot for finishing. He urged the audience to take advantage of the free benefit of heterosis. Hybrid vigor will increase profit without any imput costs. Raymond used the figure of 27% increase in a ½ blood cow over straight-bred cows if genetic selection was done properly. He also encouraged commercial men to demand genetic information on the bulls they buy from seed stock producers.
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   Raymond said, "We need to work as an industry to accumulate data, document it, and share it with the commercial cattleman. The most expensive thing commercial producers can do is buy a genetically inferior bull. The biggest mistake you can make is buying a bull on price rather than genetics."
   
   Raymond reminded the producers that the end product is the most important factor. The value lies in its pleasing taste. If someone could develop a method to test for tenderness at rail speed, they would be a millionaire overnight. He indicated that more change has taken place in the last two years in how cattle are marketed than had taken place in the previous 30 years.

2. 2. Proven Sire Trait Leaders and Focus Dams now available

   www.nalf.org/limousin_library/ - [Cached]

   Published on: 8/16/2004   Last Visited: 10/16/2006

   Gene Raymond of Garnett, Kansas judged the open show.