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Most of the pre-condition sales are wanting 45 to 60 days weaned.

Kenny, OP is in southwest Missouri. I bet they are selling at Joplin. Sale starts at 6 am tomorrow.

This week's sale at Crockett. https://easttexaslivestock.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Market-Report-2-20-24-Feb-20-2024-8-49%E2%80%AFPM-1.pdf

This past Tuesday at Emory TX

I don't see it getting much higher. We have got beef about as high as consumer can stand. Scroll down to look at current projections and close outs. https://cattlereport.agcenter.com/

Jan. 2024 feeder futures closed yesterday at $215.30, the March 2024 feeder futures closed at $216.07

Bird dog, was that at Groesbeck or West?

Brute got yo get east of I-45.

Here in East Texas, most barns put age right behind the shoulder - H for heifers, 1 - 7, SS or 0. Pregnancy is on the hip. They use the numbers for their best guess of how many months bred.

Groups of 8 or more will bring more than singles. Order buyers get paid on commission (usually so much per cwt.) . The more lbs that fir the order, the more they make. Lucky, look at the NETBIO sale in Sulphur Springs. Those cattle consistently bring more.than singles. Part is that they are...

CB, those are October numbers. Nacogdoches and New Summerfield are both running abnormally higher numbers. All 3 barns are getting some western Louisiana cattle. Amite, LA sale barn(east of Baton Rouge) had 2100 Tuesday (1100 of that was cows).

Since we sell nearly everything as singles, those jackpot pens will have multiple consignors' cattle in them. If a producer has enough animals that will sort up, they may be sorted off and grouped. Buying bred cows is like looking for the prize in a box of CrackerJacks.

As I said, we sell them mostly one at a time. Most barns do not have enough small pens to seperate consignor's cattle before the sale.The average herd size here is 31 head.

Most of the sales here sell the calves one at a time. We don't need a big ring.

Calf market was spotty here in East Texas. Better end still sold well. Lots of fat, bawling, juicy new crop calves. Order buyers were put on head limits Thursday and Friday. Many shut down for the 4th of July Friday and one company said they would crank back up on July 10. Said the customers...

Brute, that is not apples to apples. Steer vs bull is $5 to $8 per cwt. discount to the bulls (more in August to October time period). 1/4 & 1/8 blood calves vs 3/8 to 1/2 bloods is another $5 to $6 per cwt. discount.

I can see you are a "man of vision" as Captain Call said. Taking a mix of #1's and 1 1/2's that will all be #1's when ready to go to the feedyard at 800 to 900 lbs. Good job of putting the together.

We import lean trimmings because we do not produce enough lean trimmings in this country. The percentage of Choice and Prime cattle is up over 80%. See https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/ams_2700.pdf. This is the result of selecting for increased IMF in all breeds. Go to and read the section...

Both. The packers would not increase what they pay for cattle if they cannot sell the meat. When the price of meat gets to the point it is not moving, the packers will use the excuse that they cannot sell the meat. They are going to keep (at least the majority of it) their margin.

I have been reading through this thread and I think you are trying to do what is right. Most people in your area wean calves at 6 to 9 months that weigh 450 to 700 lbs. Some will wean and background or "precondition" the calves by steering the bulls and giving two rounds of vaccinations that...