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    Pricing 2nd Calvers

    Up here if comeing 3 is of comparible quality she will bring more than a bred heifer and should. The gamble is just about gone on a second calver as the calving issue is pretty well solved, raised a calf and fertile enough to breed back, has nearly reached maature size. Have seen them outsell...
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    Buying a breeding bull through the ring

    I'm pretty sure that you have to have apermit to get a used bull inspected out to any place except a slaughter facility. We have a permit to go to accepted feedlot and of coarse then to slaughter.There is enough problems without buying a old used bull to go back to the breeding herd!!
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    A couple of questions about auctions in other areas

    No announceing here at least not much as all cattle here are branded and these order buyers are well versed on who owns what. Most sale barns are also order buyers so generally the cattle bring what they are worth!!
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    Fair Trade My Rear End

    I'm sorry that I was'nt clear when I said old uncle wanted to trade grain for oil, what he meant was food for oil.
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    Fair Trade My Rear End

    Trade them beef for some of the stuff they sell us. Had 3 old uncles that were livestock traders and made a darn good liveing at it. If you noticed I wrote OLD. THe oldtimers knew how to trade and make it work. This is one of the reasons that the USA was so successful and became wealthy and the...
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    Selling Directly to Packing Houses

    How many do you feed? We market quite a few finished cattle through 2-3 small processing plants. Sell everything on the rail, have done it successfully for years. We do live in a very sparse'ly populated area. I have often thought if we were located near a large city or even in a place that was...
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    Precondition or sell normal?

    Do you have a neighbor that you could throw in with?? Then you could share vacc. costs and sell together and prorate the money. Maybe a neighbor would buy your steer,I'm fair'ly sure that your state does not have brand laws so no problems with mixed cattle. There is always a way .
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    Where to buy hereford heifers.

    We are sending a group to Kazacastan,going to start quarantee next week,but we will have more after weaning. We are'nt in this business to produce show cattle. We do raise cattle that can make their own liveing,as we live in strictly prairie country.
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