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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 607257" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>The best sale barn is the one with the most active buyers. That is generally dictated by being the one with the most consistent volume of quality cattle.</p><p></p><p>Buyers sure do buy cattle at one sale to take them to another sale. Working out back at a few sale barns will show a person that. There is less of this done with calves fresh off the cow because the weaning shrink will hurt. But for weaned cattle it generally just takes a bunk full of hay and a trough of water and no one pushing them around for a night to put that weight back on. There is two ways buyers do this. One is buying cattle at a low price that they know of a better market for at another sale. The other is buyers who get cattle cheaper than an order so they put them on their own number and take them to another sale where they buy them again for a higher price and put them on an order. I have watched order buyers do both of these things. </p><p></p><p>Some times shrink is over rated. It is just feed and water that is in their belly. Last year I was at the sale and I bought some 500 pound steers that would blend right in with some calves I had just weaned. I bought them because I felt they were under priced. Two days later a guy stopped by wanting to buy my calves. To be honest I pointed out the ones I had just bought. He said they fit in and ended up buying the whole lot. We hauled them 15 miles and put them on the scale. For kicks we weighed the purchased calves by themselves. They had gained 20 pounds each over what they weighed when I bought them two days before. They gained 20 pounds and the price went up 0.20 a pound. I made over a $100 each on that little bunch of calves. If I did that on one small lot imagine what those buyers who sit in sale barns everyday of the week will do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 607257, member: 498"] The best sale barn is the one with the most active buyers. That is generally dictated by being the one with the most consistent volume of quality cattle. Buyers sure do buy cattle at one sale to take them to another sale. Working out back at a few sale barns will show a person that. There is less of this done with calves fresh off the cow because the weaning shrink will hurt. But for weaned cattle it generally just takes a bunk full of hay and a trough of water and no one pushing them around for a night to put that weight back on. There is two ways buyers do this. One is buying cattle at a low price that they know of a better market for at another sale. The other is buyers who get cattle cheaper than an order so they put them on their own number and take them to another sale where they buy them again for a higher price and put them on an order. I have watched order buyers do both of these things. Some times shrink is over rated. It is just feed and water that is in their belly. Last year I was at the sale and I bought some 500 pound steers that would blend right in with some calves I had just weaned. I bought them because I felt they were under priced. Two days later a guy stopped by wanting to buy my calves. To be honest I pointed out the ones I had just bought. He said they fit in and ended up buying the whole lot. We hauled them 15 miles and put them on the scale. For kicks we weighed the purchased calves by themselves. They had gained 20 pounds each over what they weighed when I bought them two days before. They gained 20 pounds and the price went up 0.20 a pound. I made over a $100 each on that little bunch of calves. If I did that on one small lot imagine what those buyers who sit in sale barns everyday of the week will do. [/QUOTE]
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