Carcase Weight is Still King…
‘At $8.80/kg our steers made $211.20 more per head or $30,412.80 extra income for that consignment’
With premiums for Marbling available, even if every steer processed that day graded a Marble Score 4 with a MSA Index of 64 and gained the 40cent/kg premium, our heavier Carcase Weight steers still returned $91.60/hd more or $13,190.40 extra for the consignment. Weight still pays.
During the past five years we have sold 814 prime yearling milk tooth grass finished steers and heifers. Compared Nationally within the Meat & Livestock myMSA dashboard they have netted $337 per head more value to gross an extra $274,963.