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Despite the drop in cow numbers, total beef production is actually a little higher, year on year. We are feeding to heavier weights while exporting less and importing more. This may moderate the prices we have been seeing this spring but could help keep prices higher in the long run by keeping...

Ultimately, cattle are only worth what people can or will pay for beef. Sometimes extremely high prices in the short run are harmful to long term profits. Too often, when prices get too high, it is the farmer or cattleman that takes the hit. It should not be that way, but it is. I guess this is...

So far most of the drop has been in the futures. Cash market is also off, particularly calves and yearlings. Pound cows and bulls are holding up the best, but they are also off over $5. Supposed to be the bird flu deal, but the market seemed to be looking for a reason to cool off. Is it a time...

If beef is going to remain a major portion of the American diet, where will it come from? This thing has a different feel than previous cattle cycle bull markets. Usually by this time in the cycle people are keeping back heifers in a big way. Around here I continue to hear of farmer's selling...

At the sale in Richmond on Friday, most any cow 4 to 6 months bred or under and over 1100 lbs. sold by the pound. Slaughter bulls and cows sold well into the teens, twenties and thirties. This is really becoming worrisome (though nice for the billfold of those selling). It is not good for the...

The Ky Beef Expo is held at the Ky Exhibition Center in Louisville, the site of Freedom Hall Arena, a football stadium, the Ky State Fair, and the North American Livestock Show in November. I spent a lot of time there when my daughters were younger showing sheep, sometimes sleeping in the barns...

I just do not have the nerve to purchase cattle to take home at these prices. I do need to purchase a bull this spring. That will be enough risk and adventure for me. There are always bargains, but looks like a lot more downside potential than upside to me.

Travir, you are right. But I deposited my check like everyone else. It still sits there floating on my checking account. How did it add to inflation when it never was used to purchase anything? I may have to give some of it back in taxes this year. Our whole economy, especially government...

Scrapie tags have been mandatory for sheep and goats for some years now. I try and tag them at birth and they usually last the life of the animal. I buy the larger tags, imprinted with my farm number and the individual number, and use them for identification within the flock, so there is really...

A glance at some Kentucky auctions today had me thinking they were slightly higher than before Christmas.

Yes, Ayre's Livestock. I graduated with the oldest son of Harvey Ayres. The yard is on Forks Church Road, run by one of the grandsons. This is part of the old Dixie Stock Farm of Angle Sanders, who I went to church with as a kid. Both Richmond and Stanford have always treated me well, and I like...

Seems you did all right for the way the market is. Did you sell in Lexington? If you did, how was it? I have never sold there, always Stanford or Richmond. Many in my area are selling direct at a yard in northern Garrard with no commission.

Many times I have found the best course is to go to the best connected and most informed source for advise on which way cattle prices are going; then do just the opposite in your marketing. Just kidding, but not entirely. Eventually the lower cow numbers will result in sustained higher prices...

It seems the only stock I sell for a decent price, compared to national prices, are weigh cows and bulls. I admit that most of my calves are around 650 lbs. and a little fleshy, but with more pounds I still get a better price per head than by selling them lighter. Back in August and September...

Cloudy all day yesterday and only 0.03 here; the weatherman had been promising more. It will be dry again by noon.

I have five Sim-Angus type heifers , four black and one gray, I weaned a couple of months ago, that also weigh about 650 lbs. They are open and on feed. Prices here are off $20 at least from their peak, maybe a little more. I am also debating what to do with them. I sold off every older cow or...

It seems I have been seeing that wording more often on market reports. It reflects what is actually happening. I took off two late born steers yesterday (I know the market is down but they needed to go). One was red with a mottled white face and the other black. I was surprised when they brought...

Here in Kentucky, we have not seen the extreme high prices for lightweights. A pretty nice 350 lb. calf sold as a single may not bring as much per pound as a 700 pound calf sold in a uniform large group, all long time weaned and with two rounds of shots. Grass and hay are scarce but it looks...

What about, "she will bump" ? I used to hear that all the time. At the yards the weigh pen was full of men walking among the cows before the sale trying to find one that would bump. Hardly ever hear it anymore.

In 1972 I purchased a herd of 18 registered Angus from a neighbor who was selling his beef cattle in order to begin a dairy operation. These came from the old "belt buckle" stock, ranging from 725 pounds to 1100 pounds tops, Ist year I bred them to a small Angus and got small framed calves that...