Commercial Breeding
The commercial herd at Pahl Livestock is really driven to be more consistent than anything. Although all other traits are important we find that having the fewest sorts possible in our calves when taking them to market seems to net the most profit. In 2014 we basically had our group of 170 steers sell in 3 groups, the heavies at 620lbs the big group at 580lbs and the steers from the first calf heifers selling at 500lbs. This comes from 20 years of breeding the cow herd to half brothers.