Purchasing thin cows: Opportunity or a train wreck?

In every drought cycle some producers have an earlier end to the drought than others and some are more severely affected by drought than others. As producers liquidate productive cows due to drought, there is opportunity to ship in cows with high quality genetics that otherwise would be in the prime of their productive life. But often these cows have been held on to for too long by a producer waiting for the “ranch saving rain” that never materialized, with too little grass and little to no hay or feed in reserve. It is hard to turn loose of genetics we have been building and working…