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<blockquote data-quote="bird dog" data-source="post: 1811848" data-attributes="member: 5381"><p>A lot of the calves go to accumulators like Capitol or Chilton. They have buyers at all of the larger sale barns and have route trucks that pick them up after the sale and take them to a central location where they are grouped into like kind calves in truck load lots. These are then sold to buyers ranging from feed lots for the bigger calves to grazers on the smaller ones. </p><p>Look at Capitol Livestock's web page and you can see how it works. They buy six to ten loads every day and usually have them sold and back on the road late that night. </p><p></p><p>Some of the buyers bring a trailer for the few that they buy for themselves to resell but most go out on big trucks. At West and Decatur a lot of the horned cows are sold to the suppliers for Mexican rodeo events. </p><p></p><p>Packer cows work the same except they usually don't go to another yard. The packing plant will send a truck to the sale barn and that trucck may have two or three stops before heading to the packing plant. There are many other scenarios depending on the time of year. When wheat starts coming up . there is a big demand for calves for that. The same with springtime grazing. </p><p></p><p>There is a place close to me that buys around 2000 calves from the sale barns in the fall and runs them on wheat until the following June. </p><p></p><p>The West barn as a rest stop is usually meant for breeding bulls and high quality registered type cows going South. Its a place to unload, to let the cattle (and the driver) rest and water up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bird dog, post: 1811848, member: 5381"] A lot of the calves go to accumulators like Capitol or Chilton. They have buyers at all of the larger sale barns and have route trucks that pick them up after the sale and take them to a central location where they are grouped into like kind calves in truck load lots. These are then sold to buyers ranging from feed lots for the bigger calves to grazers on the smaller ones. Look at Capitol Livestock's web page and you can see how it works. They buy six to ten loads every day and usually have them sold and back on the road late that night. Some of the buyers bring a trailer for the few that they buy for themselves to resell but most go out on big trucks. At West and Decatur a lot of the horned cows are sold to the suppliers for Mexican rodeo events. Packer cows work the same except they usually don't go to another yard. The packing plant will send a truck to the sale barn and that trucck may have two or three stops before heading to the packing plant. There are many other scenarios depending on the time of year. When wheat starts coming up . there is a big demand for calves for that. The same with springtime grazing. There is a place close to me that buys around 2000 calves from the sale barns in the fall and runs them on wheat until the following June. The West barn as a rest stop is usually meant for breeding bulls and high quality registered type cows going South. Its a place to unload, to let the cattle (and the driver) rest and water up. [/QUOTE]
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