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    Consumers want to know

    I don't care what people like. But if they try to tell me how much better grass fed organic sustainable beef is than my grass raised and grain finished beef, I have no respect for their judgement. They are ignorant ill-informed trend followers.
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    Pricing Replacement Heifers

    WOW! Quite a premium he's asking. There are a lot of good quality commercial operations in Missouri. Hope he gets his price.
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    Pricing Replacement Heifers

    I have a moderate sized registered Angus operation. I select my keepers from the heifer pen and offer choice of the remaining heifers under the following terms. Say there are 40 left and you want to pick off 20 of them. The price will be the top sales price for steers at the closest...
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    Mother Russia

    Well, yesterday Argentina defaulted on their international loans. Couldn't pay off the back interest they owed. Today Russia announced counter measures to the U.S. and EU sanctions pertaining to the Ukraine situation. So far we still believe in the rule of law here in the good ole U.S.A...
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    Up it goes

    I bet they were Holstein steers.
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    Help me read this?

    Assuming the calves are weaned, bunk broke and vaccinated $1000 per head would not be unreasonable. You are still giving them a big break. The following is the USDA market report for St. Joe. It is probably the lightest run of the year: http://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/sj_ls150.txt Note...
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    Bred Cow prices

    Sat in at the slaughter cattle auction in St. Joe last Monday. Old fleshy moderate framed open cows were selling from $105.5 to $112/cwt. Many with broken down bags. Thin open cows were selling $95 to $102/cwt. Young open cows were selling for up to $146. Only train wrecks were bringing...
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