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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 1811855" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>It will vary a lot around the country. Here there are 4 big feedlot companies which all own multiple feedlots. The company gives the buyers a ticket for X amount of head of this size or sex and price. This is the price to pay. The buyers work on a commission. A certain dollars per head or on a percentage. The more numbers they buy the more money they make. So why let the other guy have any more than you have to? The cattle get hauled by semi trucks not by the buyer. The sale yard sends a fax to the company with purchase details. The company sends a check or a wire transfer to pay for the cattle. Once the cattle are finished they are shipped to one of the two packing plants in this part of the world.</p><p></p><p>In this area it is noticeable that the big feedlots are close to the big potato processioning plant and the other vegetable plants. This is so the waste from those plants get fed to the cattle. There is a lot of that in the Treasure Valley in Idaho (you might have heard of Idaho potatoes). The two packing plants in Washington. Tyson at Pasco WA an Washington Beef at Toppenish WA. The result is a nearly constant flow of cattle pots full of fats headed west on the freeway every day.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 1811855, member: 498"] It will vary a lot around the country. Here there are 4 big feedlot companies which all own multiple feedlots. The company gives the buyers a ticket for X amount of head of this size or sex and price. This is the price to pay. The buyers work on a commission. A certain dollars per head or on a percentage. The more numbers they buy the more money they make. So why let the other guy have any more than you have to? The cattle get hauled by semi trucks not by the buyer. The sale yard sends a fax to the company with purchase details. The company sends a check or a wire transfer to pay for the cattle. Once the cattle are finished they are shipped to one of the two packing plants in this part of the world. In this area it is noticeable that the big feedlots are close to the big potato processioning plant and the other vegetable plants. This is so the waste from those plants get fed to the cattle. There is a lot of that in the Treasure Valley in Idaho (you might have heard of Idaho potatoes). The two packing plants in Washington. Tyson at Pasco WA an Washington Beef at Toppenish WA. The result is a nearly constant flow of cattle pots full of fats headed west on the freeway every day. [/QUOTE]
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