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<blockquote data-quote="50/50Farms" data-source="post: 1758387" data-attributes="member: 42731"><p>He is</p><p></p><p>[USER=42463]@Travlr[/USER] </p><p>Because first off, you're playing a futures game. At a stocker sale that's only two-ish months away you don't have to be a Wall Street analyst to have a pretty good </p><p>prediction of what they'll bring based off of trends. Secondly, buying animals isn't expensive, keeping them is. Their individual needs go up in proportion to their size, and there's absolutely nothing that says he'll have a good enough market for 10 month old animals to justify their added incurred expenses. On a level playing field, it might be so that he'd break even or maybe a little better. On a downhill, he might lose money. They sell at the ages and weights they do because that's the market. Last, but not least, the longer you hold a perishable investment you won't get a generational return from, the more likely it is to... well, perish.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="50/50Farms, post: 1758387, member: 42731"] He is [USER=42463]@Travlr[/USER] Because first off, you're playing a futures game. At a stocker sale that's only two-ish months away you don't have to be a Wall Street analyst to have a pretty good prediction of what they'll bring based off of trends. Secondly, buying animals isn't expensive, keeping them is. Their individual needs go up in proportion to their size, and there's absolutely nothing that says he'll have a good enough market for 10 month old animals to justify their added incurred expenses. On a level playing field, it might be so that he'd break even or maybe a little better. On a downhill, he might lose money. They sell at the ages and weights they do because that's the market. Last, but not least, the longer you hold a perishable investment you won't get a generational return from, the more likely it is to... well, perish. [/QUOTE]
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