I would say that we sell most of our animals at the sale barn - there is no way to market the volume we produce by selling out the front gate. As well, I actually get tired of hearing people say stupid things like - we want lean beef.
Heck if you want cardboard go to the local corner store. If you want marbled, tastey beef buy from someone who actually knows what you want and knows how to produce it - buy ours at the sale barn - the order buyers sure seem to!
I get tired of dealing with folks wanting to nickle and dime the program.
In fact I am tired of cheques that bounce, cash that never arrives, broken promises and the works.
We sell at the sale barn and usually do very well.
We also BUY at the sale barn. We love complete dispersal sales as the best place to buy decent animals,
We are realistic - if the going price of a similar animal has been around a buck twenty for the past week and we are 5 cents either side of that, we got what we expected.
You want to know what my animals are worth today I can tell you - almost to the dollar - all I need to do is run her over the scale.
Best to all
Bez