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Losing 10% over 24 hours is very possible with a large fleshy animal with a rumen full of green grass. Unless he was penned alone those big bulls are in constant motion at the sale barn trying to establish themselves and/or trying to breed anything that will let them. I know its not...

GoWyo is right for our area as well. I saw one last week at West bring $1.78. Around 1100 lbs if I remember correctly

Down big again this evening.. https://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=FC&p=d

Big animals sell today at the stockyards. OKC West showed some weakness but not to bad. https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/ams_1825.pdf

The correction continues https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/ams_1280.pdf

With todays prices, you ain't selling anything at a loss thus you pay capitol gains to exchange that 5 year old for something else.

I bought about 25 one and dones last fall thru early winter. I put 7 of them into my permanent herd. They are not anything special, just thin when I bought them. They were bought for around $1100, had a nice calf that will easily pay for the cow and her winter hay. They were called...

Your right of course. You lose it all in three hours and the buyer pays you for a high risk calf.

What I have discovered. At 30 days wean, they haven't had enough time to start gaining good but it will help some with the shrinkage. They will weigh about what they did fresh off the cow. At 45 days calves on good spring/summer pasture will gain a average of 1 1/4 lbs per day. Add...

Longer is always better. Usually for the buyer and the seller. Past 60 is ideal. Keep them if you have plenty of forage. Every day you wait, each calf will be worth $4 more just on decent pasture.

The yard and the commission company work on a set per head fee. You also pay insurance, beef check off, yardage and a sales staff fee. The commission company charges for feed determined on how long they are there. It sounds like a lot but usually runs around $32 per head for mine being fed...

The worst group I ever had shrink wise as well as under-performance wise went on a way over-loaded pot to OKC that I shared with a neighbor lady. They shrank about 8% and sold for about 20 cents under the average. The commission company had actually bought them for themselves. I watched...

Weaned or not. the less time in the sale barn the better especially if they are commingled. What I have found with packer cows is to get them there towards the end of the packer cow session where they will spend less than a hour before going into the ring. All the hay they want the night...

Thats the way I read it. From the article The industry will add pounds to replace head count and distribute the industry further out in time. There already seems to be less cows for sale. I noticed it when looking for one and dones last fall. Where the sale barn used to have three large...

Market is nervous. https://www.thebeefread.com/

Neat sale barn. Check out the website. Half the pens on each side of the river.

I also like the heavy two weights. They are 3$+ for good steers, $2.50 for heifers. The rodeo buyers take a lot of them and keep the price up. I can put them on grass until late fall and they sell well to buyers wanting good hard calves weaned six months. A calf that don't look real good...

I ask the head of the appraisal district about this one time. He said no we don't do that, we can get everything we need from a satellite picture. I ask what they look for. He said cow trails, hay rings, pens, the cows themselves are visible if they are there.

A condemned carcass is always a risk that that most of the packer cow buyers are not willing to take.

It would be worth over paying just to have lunch with Ms. TC