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    How much are Cow/Calf Pairs Worth?

    What's a cow/calf pair worth?
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    Beef Cow Debt

    How much debt can a beef cow support?
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    Price gouging vs profit opportunity

    Where's the line between profit opportunity and price gouging on hay bales. In the midst of the drought I got some fairly nice grass bales for $50 each. Now everyone thinks they should get $75-$150+. Told the $50 guy at the time that I would buy everything he bales next summer. Would rather...
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    Dispersion yesterday at Jamestown, N.D.

    Nice dispersion of mostly red baldy cows yesterday at Jamestown Lvst. Deal of the day I thought was a pen of April calving heifers at $1350. Right behind them was a pen of six blacks fetching $1850. Most sold mouth cows were in the $1350-$1400 range, with a few black baldies at $1850. I would...
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    Black makes a difference here

    Took my fall calving steers to town yesterday. A pen of 9 weighed about 500 lbs., but there were three reds in to group so the auctioneer colored them for the bidders. Now I had six blacks at 481 lbs. fetch $2.09, and the three reds weighed 5:36 and brought $1.75. So the little blacks brought...
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    Kicking the hay habit

    I've not read Jim Gerrish's book. Am afraid to buy it because so much other material I've seen has little info for the far north. I'm in East Central North Dakota Corn/Soybean country. Although we are in the top 10 states for numbers of cows, the focus is mainly grain. There's little info...
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    Late in Life Marriage

    My older brother, widowed 10 years, is getting married this weekend. I'm his best man -- again. I'm a little shaggier than my current profile picture. Will I look OK in the front of a big E-Free Church? OK -- maybe a lot shaggier! My hair is shoulder length, and the beard is appropriately...
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    Bought Pharo Cattle Company Angus bull

    Off to Dickinson, N.D., tomorrow morning to pick up a bull bought on the Colorado Pharo Cattle Co. sale. Could be interesting. But I just can't find any smaller-framed cows so I submitted a Sight Unseen bid for $4200 on a sort of 28 grass efficient, easy fleshing DNA. Almost didn't get a bull...
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    Moderating cow size

    Off to Dickinson, N.D., tomorrow morning to pick up a bull bought on the Colorado Pharo Cattle Co. sale. Could be interesting. But I just can't find any smaller-framed cows so I submitted a Sight Unseen bid for $4200 on a sort of 28 grass efficient, easy fleshing DNA. Almost didn't get a bull...
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    Sold a three-legged cow today

    Sold a three-legged cull cow today -- 1320 lbs. for $0.58, so that was OK! The market for cows was very good with some big cows bringing $0.73. Burger grillin' time, I guess. Also bought (private treaty) three bred heifers and a big solid mouth cow for $1050 each (August calvers that fit my...
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    President Trump's CPAC Speach

    Anyone else catch President Trump's CPAC speech this afternoon? I enjoyed it very much. Good to hear from him again. Bugs me that so many like to yell, "Hey, that ''Former' President Trump!" Yeah? Like "former" President Washington? Nobody says that ... don't care if it's President Grover...
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    Not paying much for weight

    Watched a couple of area livestock sales this week, and am about to turn on Herried (S.D.) now. Interesting that they are not paying much for extra gain. At Napoleon (N.D.) yesterday I saw a guy sold a pen at 558 lbs. at $1.81, and a pen at 649 lbs., fetching$1.58 -- only about $16 for that...
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    Cattle vs. Stock Market

    Back in my U-Mary days I asked a priest (my philosophy professor) if he owned any stocks. He said his dad always told him, "Son, you can buy all the stock you want, as long at it has four legs." That's my awkward segue into this link, Cattle v. the Dow-Jones...
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    Cares Act 1 percent loan

    My banker called to remind me to apply for my 1 percent CARES ACT LOAN. Looks like I'm going to buy some pasture stock! What's the best thing to not lose money on?
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    Greg Judy and Profit per Acre

    Am a fan of Greg Judy on YouTube and recently read his book "Comeback Farms." Anyone have any ideas about Regenerative Grazing and downsizing to a more efficient type of cow -- or on the "Profit per Acre" vs. the "Pounds per Calf" model?
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