"Corky" Bryan - Hawaii Cattlemens Council

CB: ‘Cause they were there. Well… not there at the ranch but old man Moody had a pure bred herd thereright next door right below where the old Hanalei Plantation Hotel was. And so he started doing that and theywere good cattle. I mean they didn’t… Santa Gertrudis as it turned out over the years weren’t really thatdesirable from a carcass quality standpoint, but it made great cows and then that second cross back to theHereford was a good one.LW:Was a good one.CB: And better yet if he had started crossing on a third breed that would have been great if he usedsomething else.LW:But better in the sense that they birth easier or their cows were fatter cows or better how?CB:The… the calves would have been better quality carcass wise.LW:Better carcass quality… with a little Santa Gertrudis in there?CB: No, they weren’t as good with the Santa Gertrudis, if you had a crossbred Santa Gertrudis cow, halfSanta Gertrudis, half Hereford…LW:Right… and…CB:And you went back to the Hereford, then you’d pick up more of the carcass quality of the Hereford, see.LW:Yeah.CB: But as time has gone on, he was just one step behind where we are today which is taking thatcrossbred cow and breeding it to a third breed.LW:Oh…