Anyone use a buyers card?

[brandonm_13]

Wondering who uses a buyers card? Do you have one you can find online or do you make your own?

 

[Dave]

Do you mean like these? The sale yard has stacks of them on the counter. I usually grab two of them. One to write down what I buy. And one to write information on ones that sell that I want to remember selling data. The wife just gathered a bunch of them I have sitting around on my desk. The stack is nearly an inch thick.

 

[brandonm_13]

Do you mean like these? The sale yard has stacks of them on the counter. I usually grab two of them. One to write down what I buy. And one to write information on ones that sell that I want to remember selling data. The wife just gathered a bunch of them I have sitting around on my desk. The stack is nearly an inch thick.

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More of a question of whether or not you have any prices written down when y9ou go to a sale to help guide your purchases, or whether you just wing it.

 

[SBMF 2015]

I think most of us that fallow the cattle markets have a pretty good idea when we step foot into a sale barn what it is likely going to cost to play that day.
I don't get to sales as often as I used to but I fallow the weekly market report for the sale barns I frequent.
I use sale cards as a reminder of groups that stood out or groups that I bought.

 

[Dave]

I have been known to do that. Here is a card I made up for when they sell bred cows by the pound. I wanted to have $1,200 a cow as my cut off. You will note a 1,200 pound cow cost $1.00 a pound. Calves I always have a maximum $ per pound in my head. Also being able to do math in your head quickly helps.

 

[kenny thomas]

I have been known to do that. Here is a card I made up for when they sell bred cows by the pound. I wanted to have $1,200 a cow as my cut off. You will note a 1,200 pound cow cost $1.00 a pound. Calves I always have a maximum $ per pound in my head. Also being able to do math in your head quickly helps.

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Is that old math or new math.

 

[Dave]

Is that old math or new math.

Calculator. I don't know if they programed it with old math or new math?

In college I took animal nutrition. That was before calculators. I had volumes of paper covered with long hand old math balancing rations and figuring their cost.

 

[kenny thomas]

A young guy i hauled calves to auction for Saturday was amazed that as his calves sold I was telling him within a few dollars what they were bringing while he was still punching his calculator.

 

[farmerjan]

I do that sometimes when my son and I are at a sale... and he uses the calculator on his phone and just looks at me when I am pretty darn close to what they actually brought... and then shakes his head...

 

[gcreekrch]

I do that sometimes when my son and I are at a sale... and he uses the calculator on his phone and just looks at me when I am pretty darn close to what they actually brought... and then shakes his head...

I do the same.

 

[1982vett]

Really never had those skills...what's worse, it is becoming a challenge just to tally two 2 digit numbers....

 

[greybeard]

I have been known to do that. Here is a card I made up for when they sell bred cows by the pound. I wanted to have $1,200 a cow as my cut off. You will note a 1,200 pound cow cost $1.00 a pound. Calves I always have a maximum $ per pound in my head. Also being able to do math in your head quickly helps.

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No no NO! You s'posed to use the NEW Math!!!p

 

[gcreekrch]

Used four cards this week. One for bred cattle bought, one for feeder cattle bought, one for cows sold and one for the wife's grocery list.