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Just got home from the sale. Pairs were $2,500 to $2,600. There was 2 smooth mouth pairs I was considering buying. First pair brought $2,450, forget that. The second one I started it at $1,600 and took it up to $1,900 where I let the other guy have it. Young close up bred cows were $2,000+...

Motley. Took me a while to figure that out. It would be called brokle faced here. Once again regional differences in what something is called.

I went up the Alcan twice so I have seen your general part of the world and I know that it can be mighty remote. I do have the freeway which goes by. Very little traffic on it and almost none of that traffic is local people. Our little town only has a post office. It is said that the post...

Not as crowded as my area? One road going east/west. None going north/south. It is 15 miles west to the next place. There must only be 6 people other than you and yours in your area.. Trouble is no pasture for a dairy cow. She would have to live in the corral and get fed hay. That might...

Once the cows get turned out there is no need for a graft calf. And ranchers all have 300, 400, or maybe 1,000 cows. They have enough to do and feeding a bottle calf just adds another chore. I am thinking about checking out the price of milk replacer. But I don't know if it is worth doing...

Calving season is pretty much done here. The twins which were held for graft calves aren't needed and people don't like having to bottle feed them. There was about 8 black Angus calves at the sale on Thursday. For about a $150 average or less you could have had all of them.

We have 4 assorted pickups. A 94, 97, 2000, and 2002. Not going to buy anything newer. The newest vehicle is a 2008 KIA that has almost 300,000 miles on it.

One of the troubles is finding a pickup in 2024 that is as basic as a 1974 pickup. We and the auto industry need all these extras on our vehicles. All those extras add up to a lot of money. Dealers just don't even carry a pickup as plain Jane as the standard one was in 1974.

That is the report from the Kamloops sale. Last time I drove through Kamloops it was in BC. So Canadian dollars. Ballpark exchange rate it works out to $2.28 in US dollars.

When you break even on the losers I call it a win.

I took 4 cows that had lost their calves to the sale today. Nice thick Angus cow that weighed over 1,300 sold for $1.24. A rangy Hereford cow that must have slipped her calf early weighed 1,200 and sold for $1.19. The old sling bag cow who had the cleft palate calf weighed 1,150 and brought...

It lists the state that wont take the cattle but doesn't list which states have infected cattle.

Here the kill cows and bulls held steady. Not much in the way of calves or yearlings coming to town this time of the year. What little there is coming is generally pretty poor quality. Brandings happening every day. People moving cows off feed and out to grass. Numbers of cattle and people...

I read a report yesterday that listed Offal selling for $11 and change. If the packers are breaking even on the meat that $11+ a hundred adds up to a pretty good dollar. Here the kill is all farm slaughter. They charge $20 to haul off all that stuff. Plus another $20 in at the plant for...

A good cow will hang up 50%. So a good 1,200 pound cow will hand 600 pounds. Nearly half of the hanging weight is in bone. So that works out to 300 pounds of meat to grind. So using nice round numbers a 1,200 pound cow costing $1.25 is $1,500. $1,500 for 300 pounds of meat is $5 a pound...

We are off some compared to the rest of you. Might be because of the distance to the big population in the east. But today cows were $1.25 to $1.30. And bulls topped at $1.54. But that is still $3,000 for a ton bull and $1,600/$1,700 for cull cow. Saw one cow weighing 2,005 sell for $1.23...

B asked me what fancy 700 pound heifers were bringing at the sale. They were right about $1,735. How many dollars to put everything into them and sell in October? My thumbnail guess is you would need to get $2,200/2,300 to break even.

I did the bred heifer deal in '13, '14, '15, & '16. Worked well in '13. Paid very well in '14. Worked good in '15 but I contracted them early. I debated with myself about doing it in '16. I did it but ended up giving back the money I made in '13. I vaccinated, bred AI, PI tested, and did...

The futures is primarily what a friend of mine called the shiny shoes boys playing around to make money. There are a lot of other things that are more important to watch. Weather (on a big scale), feed prices, fuel, things affecting the export market, etc. Most people look at what is...

While waiting for the sale to start today I was reading the Western Livestock Journal. In an article about prices the Journal editor said the high cull cow and bull prices were because of the high demand for hamburger. He quoted the present price for 10% lean trim. I wish I had brought that...