Win-Win: Jorgensen Land & Cattle Jorgensen Land and Cattle enhances sustainability of its family seedstock operation by providing bull customers with proven added value.
“It’s important to us to figure out how to provide a quality product at an affordable, sustainable price,” says Cody Jorgensen of Jorgensen Land & Cattle (JLC) at Ideal, SD. “Unless you have a special calf buy-back deal, I believe it’s difficult for a commercial producer to pay much more than $5,000-$6,000 for a bull and make it work economically, given the expected three years of use and the cost of keeping it.”
On the other side of the coin, earning that sort of average price is hard to sustain over time, especially with the volume of bulls JLC markets and services upwards of 4,000 bulls every year.