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Link them if you could. I'd like to play with it.

I've had a standing order at some Colorado sale barns for the last few weeks buying heifers in the 5's like yours. I'm getting it done for $131 at 527lbs. Those heifers are going to a growyard in Colorado to be limit fed and spayed. They'll get turned out on one of our Wyoming ranches in early May.

We bought bulls Friday at the Durbin Creeksale in Worland, Wyoming. We got 11 bulls (Hereford) bought. I haven't taken the time to figure the average for the whole sale yet but our bulls averaged $5,000. I think that their average would have been very similar as we felt we were buying right...

I mistyped, good catch.

On Western Video Thursday, front end weaned steers weighing 625lbs. or so were bringing $143/cwt. (a tick over $900/head gross) +/- coming out of Northern Nevada, Eastern Oregon and North Eastern California.

If I ever bought a limousine, I think it would be a baby blue one with horns on the front but I like to keep things understated.

Oh, and they seem to do a bit better with brisket. Not as good as an XB type but better.

Absolutely. In the last 10 years the Red Angus Association has done a much better job of moving their breed in a direction that helps to improve their commercial customers much more than the American Angus Association has. I'm 100% convinced (even though I don't own one, though that is very soon...

Given their teeth and the country they came out of, they'll wean 4 calves most likely. 3 at the worst. I view them as one of the best crosses going for our Northern Nevada high desert (5,200 feet) country. The only thing that would make them use our country better is if they had a pinch of ear...

Pretty decent bounce in California too. This week will be a good indicator, there are a couple bred stock auctions ahead of the Red Bluff Bull and Gelding Sale this weekend. $1,400-$1,650 will buy an awful lot of good enough cows but there will be some of the absolute best bred heifers bring...

Wherever it pencils. Over the years, I've bought them from neighbor across the fence, 2 Canadian Provinces, 4 States in Mexico and 17 Western and MidWestern States.

They've been selling the wheels off Horned Hereford, Brahman and the resulting Tigerstripe breds there at San Saba. I've got a friend sending 5 loads of Horned Herefords there for a special very soon, he's going to get along good.

Agreed. Any time a ranch is capable of putting competitive gains on steers (250lbs. for Winter grass and 225lbs. for Summer grass where we operate), the ranch owner is going to be money ahead going the route of leasing to the steer operator.

I think I agree with you but what exactly are you saying? The rancher leasing a ranch is better off stocking it with steers than pairs or that the ranch owner is better off leasing out to a flat rate cow deal than a stocker deal on the gain?

The last time we did see that enter the equation, it led to commodity cattle be killed at 1,250lbs. opposed to being taken to 1,400lbs. I also agree with Dave about the 6 weights too. Toughest commodity to trade out there at the moment is a 6wt. heifer. Heifers in general have a steep discount...

What is CPH?

October 1950 Off our ranch that we owned in Texas at the time, my grandfather sold 1,200 #1 yearling steers weighing 725lbs. to a Nebraska buyer for $23/cwt. as per Livestock Weekly. Running that through an inflation calculator shows that as about $204/cwt. today.

It was the best of time, it was the worst of times.

I would agree. The customers of our order buying company seem to have woken up as well.

California is still very dry in terms of drought recovery. However, last year season had good rains and most yearling guys have good old dry feed to turn out on ahead of the Fall rains. The exception being the Coast which is really still in pretty poor shape in terms of old feed.