Stocker Steve
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Plain summer (June/July) calvers are selling for almost the same price as In Season (Mar/April/May) calvers recently. Seems odd, unless they are going on feed? Are you seeing this?
Summer Calving Cow Prices ?
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Dave
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The big stock cow sale at Toppenish back the first of the month I think they killed all the May-June-July calving cows. They certainly killed the vast majority.
Stocker Steve
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Some folks here feed cull cows corn silage plus by products this time of year. Seems to be lower risk and less management than fat cattle.
Katpau
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In this area there are very few buyers looking to add bred cows to their herd in the fall. Those that do, will usually buy a larger set of similar cows from a dispersal, and there are plenty of those this year. The sale barns usually have order buyers in the stands and not much of anyone else.
I sold 11 registered Angus cows this fall at the sale barn and most of them were bred. They had some age, but were still pretty good cows, so I decided to see what would happen if I sold them as bred. They ended up bringing about the same or less than the opens but I had to pay a slightly higher commission on the sale and also a few dollars to have the pregnancy confirmed. These cows would have been due in February or March so were about 4-5 months bred. They were mostly in pretty good flesh, so I expect they went directly to the packer meaning the calf was a liability.
I sold 11 registered Angus cows this fall at the sale barn and most of them were bred. They had some age, but were still pretty good cows, so I decided to see what would happen if I sold them as bred. They ended up bringing about the same or less than the opens but I had to pay a slightly higher commission on the sale and also a few dollars to have the pregnancy confirmed. These cows would have been due in February or March so were about 4-5 months bred. They were mostly in pretty good flesh, so I expect they went directly to the packer meaning the calf was a liability.
Aaron
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I think the majority of cows are going to slaughter in North America.
Aaron
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gcreekrch said:
My problem is the people I would have to work with. People are the worst. Take a cantankerous bull over a union yes-man any day.
Stocker Steve
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Aaron said:
Not here. We have hay so we sell skinny steins and buy back fleshy bred beef cows. :cboy:
An enterprise question is - - are you better off buying bred beef cows or selling grass hay?
Aaron
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Stocker Steve said:
Well, here you can name the price for one and take what you are given for the other.
Stocker Steve
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Aaron said:
Aaron
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Stocker Steve said:
Stocker Steve
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Beef price cycles have been getting longer lately. Unknowable question is what disease and trade emergencies are we going to have during the next couple years?
Harlan assumes 7 calves per cow before she becomes burger. An analysis of culling at 15 to 20% per year will tell you that that is optimistic.
There are producers making money at todays prices, but you can bet that they are doing some things different than the average. One of Bud's observations was that it can be harder to make a good sell buy with cows compared to calves. I think speculators bidding up the price of summer calvers is an example.
Harlan assumes 7 calves per cow before she becomes burger. An analysis of culling at 15 to 20% per year will tell you that that is optimistic.
There are producers making money at todays prices, but you can bet that they are doing some things different than the average. One of Bud's observations was that it can be harder to make a good sell buy with cows compared to calves. I think speculators bidding up the price of summer calvers is an example.
Aaron
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gcreekrch said:
Unless you are running from zombies. Then you run the same way and trip the guy in front of you.
