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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1623515" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>Sold the heavier heifers in the sale on Monday. They averaged 615 lbs I think, and brought 1.16. Not worth the extra time and feed to get them up that extra 100 lbs. About $50 more for these bigger heifers, and they were going to be sold in late January when we decided to consign them and keep them.... so about 2 months worth of feed, and time and barn space, for only a $50 increase in the check . Son said it didn't pay.</p><p></p><p> We sold 13 heifers that were in the 400-450 range, the guy has gotten heifers from us a couple years in a row, and paid 1.23 or 1.27 for them and they left in mid-Jan. He likes to raise heifers, has feed (silage) and then sells them at 700 to 800..... and we have the opportunity to buy back any that we like or want. Bought back 2 this year that did real good, and I think my son sent 5 or 6 that he is interested in maybe buying back next year.... He pays us pretty much the top price of what things are currently bringing, and then we pay him what he gets for the ones he sells. So if they are too high, they can just get sold, and if we like them and the price is good, we can buy back some nice heifers ready for us to breed. Better than a custom raiser, because we have no obligation to each other, but he likes to buy off the farm, he likes how ours have done, he owns them but gives us the courtesy of having "first choice". He comes down and looks at what we have to sell and has picked out a couple that he didn't want, mostly anything that has dairy in it. Which is okay, I get it. He wouldn't buy them at the stockyards so don't expect him to buy them off the farm. May not be perfect, but has worked for the last couple years so far. </p><p></p><p>So we did decent with them and they were gone in Jan. Did okay with some steers we sold in Feb in the 1.55 range. Did decent with the 490/wt steers at the sale last Sat and the 5wt heifers also were as good as they've been. Didn't get what we should have for the 6wt heifers, but part of it might be that the whole concept for the feeder sale kinda fell apart with the C-virus mess everywhere. So you take it as it comes. </p><p></p><p>Looks like we might see things get a little better if we start to get back to normal. Futures are up a bit.... numbers of heifers on feed is still up so fewer in the breeding herd....... Cull cow prices are up...... shoot, if it will walk/limp in the ring right now it will bring $.40 and a couple weeks ago, you would be lucky to get $.25 for a limping cow. Cull bulls are close to 1.00 /lb again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1623515, member: 25884"] Sold the heavier heifers in the sale on Monday. They averaged 615 lbs I think, and brought 1.16. Not worth the extra time and feed to get them up that extra 100 lbs. About $50 more for these bigger heifers, and they were going to be sold in late January when we decided to consign them and keep them.... so about 2 months worth of feed, and time and barn space, for only a $50 increase in the check . Son said it didn't pay. We sold 13 heifers that were in the 400-450 range, the guy has gotten heifers from us a couple years in a row, and paid 1.23 or 1.27 for them and they left in mid-Jan. He likes to raise heifers, has feed (silage) and then sells them at 700 to 800..... and we have the opportunity to buy back any that we like or want. Bought back 2 this year that did real good, and I think my son sent 5 or 6 that he is interested in maybe buying back next year.... He pays us pretty much the top price of what things are currently bringing, and then we pay him what he gets for the ones he sells. So if they are too high, they can just get sold, and if we like them and the price is good, we can buy back some nice heifers ready for us to breed. Better than a custom raiser, because we have no obligation to each other, but he likes to buy off the farm, he likes how ours have done, he owns them but gives us the courtesy of having "first choice". He comes down and looks at what we have to sell and has picked out a couple that he didn't want, mostly anything that has dairy in it. Which is okay, I get it. He wouldn't buy them at the stockyards so don't expect him to buy them off the farm. May not be perfect, but has worked for the last couple years so far. So we did decent with them and they were gone in Jan. Did okay with some steers we sold in Feb in the 1.55 range. Did decent with the 490/wt steers at the sale last Sat and the 5wt heifers also were as good as they've been. Didn't get what we should have for the 6wt heifers, but part of it might be that the whole concept for the feeder sale kinda fell apart with the C-virus mess everywhere. So you take it as it comes. Looks like we might see things get a little better if we start to get back to normal. Futures are up a bit.... numbers of heifers on feed is still up so fewer in the breeding herd....... Cull cow prices are up...... shoot, if it will walk/limp in the ring right now it will bring $.40 and a couple weeks ago, you would be lucky to get $.25 for a limping cow. Cull bulls are close to 1.00 /lb again. [/QUOTE]
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