Breeding for reproduction and maintenance automatically gives you the carcass and milk needed. Hybrid corn has thirty percent less quality than open pollinated corn. Beef and dairy cows have been relieved of thirty percent of their reproductive responsibility in the last twenty-five years. Thanks to hybrid breeding. When you lose early maturity, reproduction and maintenance suffers most, quality leaves and production and performance are on the wrong side of twelve months.
Big cattle come at the expense of late maturity.
Late maturity depresses reproduction, quality and production and increases maintenance. Lowers hormone production. Then you are producing a food product of lower nutritional value and quality. When a man or woman makes a decision to produce food or fiber for the people of this great nation and world we live in, he or she has accepted a responsibility to keep a nation healthy. Producing food is not about the all mighty dollar.