Dave
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I just came home from a big bred cow sale. They had about 1,800 head. That included 600 or so bred heifers. There was one lot of 20 or so heifers that brought $1,500. The rest sold for less. Name brand as good as walks heifers, weighing 1,100-1,200 pounds, AI bred, pelvic measured, and preg checked to a short calving window sold for $1,450. Hundreds of them. There was a pen of about 30 1,180 pound pure bred Angus heifers (register eligible and calves in them eligible to register) sold for $1,325. Heifers at or under 1,000 pounds brought a couple hundred less. Any pregged to calf after mid April sold for just a touch over kill price. The highest selling bunch I saw were black 3 year olds. There was 104 of them. They sold for $1,600. One buyer took them all. Very few order buyers in attendance. It was almost entirely ranchers. They probably still had a thousand to sell when I left. They had sold all the large groups of heifers and a couple dispersal's. The 9 year old and older cows in the dispersal sold for one bid over kill price.