WarEagle73
Well-known member
We took our steers from this year to the preconditioned sale at Athens Stockyard in Athens, TN tonight. That was one of the best sales I have been to. Great people, started on time, and ran really smooth. Doesn't hurt that our cattle sold well. 5 steers ave. 740 lbs @ $153.00/cwt and 2 steers ave 670 lbs @ $156.75/cwt. For us that is by far the best we have ever done. With our local sale barns we always feel like we have at least one calf each year that gets discounted very heavily for whatever reason, but this year they were all graded #1s and got top prices. Between the prices and the great all around experience, we won't calves at any other sale in the foreseeable future. Anyone that lives within 3 hours of that sale and is willing to put in the work to precondition and wean calves should take a serious look hauling there.