cattle prices

[brierpatch1974]

I have been reading some market reports over the past few months and it seems the blacks really out sale anything else around here. .20 to .25 cents more per pound. While I under stand this with the way the markets are I dont understand why cattle considered "exotics" are getting at least 10 cents per pound more than anything that is red or RWF. Why these cattle selling worse than things considered exotic?

 

[Double E]

My opinion? It is a thing called marketing, and "certified angus beef." I sent two steers to the sale last year, both limousines, one red and the other black. The red one was the better steer, but brought a quarter a pound less than the black one. If I am going to eat them, I could care less what the wrapper looks like. If I am going to sell them, I want them black. Not bad or good, it just is.