Recent content by Ojp6

That is sad. He had a farm somewhere in middle TN I guess, I’ve bought a couple of his feeder calves at a sale barn before.

If it was a sale barn with over 200 head at it there were a couple traders that would have bought your calf if they thought it would be profitable. They would run each other a ways at that price. Any calf that brings .30 with nothing wrong with him would be extremely profitable for somebody...

Yeah, mostly respiratory. It's been on 4-500 lb calves. The weather has been tough on them. We have been keeping most of them alive though. Went through more Excede and Draxxin than I like to. They came out of several different sales, which never helps the health.

Whether has been bad here, 50s at night and 90 during the day. Trying to buy them right this week so the death loss doesn't hurt as bad. Some local backgrounders are having lots of health trouble lately. I have doctored 11 calves in the last week and a half, and that's out of 40 I've turned...

If she will stand up and get off the trailer just bring her next Thursday and she should bring something. What she brings will depend mostly on whether she looks like she will make a ride somewhere fairly upright. All the cripples get penned by themselves so nothing gets rode too bad most of...

I said 2 weeks, I think the little rise in the futures came when the on feed report came out, which was on August 25 I think.

Two weeks ago was an uptick, its come down a little over the last week but the futures haven't been jumping around too much so prices have been better than expected the last few days. What the futures do tomorrow will probably tell you what is gonna happen the rest of the week. This is just...

That is something that makes a pretty large difference to how well a barn takes care of you. A lot of people don't catch on to how sharp the people that run these barns are. Most of the time they catch on if somebody is selling elsewhere and will stop worrying about how that guys cattle sell...

This is the first time I've seen you quote some prices that looked cheaper than Tennessee. 4 weight steers end of the week over here were still bringing 1.60+, 4 weight heifers at 1.51-1.55+. That was for #1 blacks and BWF I sold some 4 weight medium frame black heifers Thursday. I...

There's already a lot of cattle sold that have never had an antibiotic. They are referred to as All Natural cattle and bring a few cent premium. All of the cattle are treated like any other pen of cattle, you just have to keep anything that ever needs an antibiotic off and send them somewhere...

If it costs you .10 cents a lb to vaccinate I can find you something quite a bit cheaper to use.

Not true at all. Every calf that dies because it wasn't vaccinated hurts every producer that sells cattle at sale barns. The lower the death loss for the feedyard the more they can pay for your cattle when they buy back. That's why cattle up north will consistently outsell cattle in your...

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A month or two ago a couple buyers I know that send cattle to JBS told me that there were rumors going around within the company that the government might suspend several of their US operations while investigating all the corruption in the company, and that would have absolutely destroyed the...

From what I understood they are selling all their feedyards to make up for the fines they are paying due to them paying off elected officials in Brazil and shipping contaminated meat. I heard that this was actually a positive thing for our cattle market because they were expecting them to...