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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1398274" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>@Ranchman90; I do try to pay attention to the trends, but the last few years with the jump up then the sharp decline has really thrown that. USED to be here, spring calves were higher from late feb to early april for locals wanting grass calves and the buyers that were getting calves. Then it fell off some, but often to mid May was a decent time to ship feeders too. Hay season here takes precedence and not much happens june -july. Then heavier weights were fairly good in mid aug. Then, calves coming off pastures in mid-sept right through the first part of Nov. Don't want to take anything during hunting season. Then usually is a small glut of stuff going the first week of dec for folks to pay taxes, but prices were just okay, not great, not awful. We usually would have some not so great weather in Jan and into feb so often very little was moving. </p><p>Here we will call the local sale and see if there were any buyers looking for anything. Since we have been selling there for over 30 years, in small quantities at first but now in some larger groups, they have always been pretty decent to us and let us know what is coming up. Also have a friend who is a dealer, and Michael talks to him once or twice a week so keeps up on the way prices are looking. I also go to the sale barn just to check in once or twice a month to sit for an hour or two to see how things are looking. It is right there where my preferred feed mill is so I can make a combined trip. And catch a meal in the restaurant at the sale too.</p><p>When prices were high, any time was a good time to sell. This winter has been overall pretty decent, very little snow, we had some rain so that it was hard to get into the fields to load out stuff for a couple of weeks, but overall it has been alot better for all winter sales. Prices were off in dec but have rebounded some now.</p><p>There was a couple of bred cow sales in dec; ought to be a few more coming up in a month or so as people get antsy for some stuff to go out on grass and they see the prices have been a little better than last fall. Hay is plentiful and cheap here now, so people feel they can pay a bit more for stuff. I have never seen the reasoning.... but I am "cheap" and we have made some money and expanded by buying some of the lower end stuff and turning them over. </p><p>We also attend several bull sales here and just talk and listen to people. I think bulls are over priced in comparison to the feeders. We do buy mostly all good registered bulls to use on the cows. Raised a couple of bull calves that were et's in some cows we bought, and they have done real well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1398274, member: 25884"] @Ranchman90; I do try to pay attention to the trends, but the last few years with the jump up then the sharp decline has really thrown that. USED to be here, spring calves were higher from late feb to early april for locals wanting grass calves and the buyers that were getting calves. Then it fell off some, but often to mid May was a decent time to ship feeders too. Hay season here takes precedence and not much happens june -july. Then heavier weights were fairly good in mid aug. Then, calves coming off pastures in mid-sept right through the first part of Nov. Don't want to take anything during hunting season. Then usually is a small glut of stuff going the first week of dec for folks to pay taxes, but prices were just okay, not great, not awful. We usually would have some not so great weather in Jan and into feb so often very little was moving. Here we will call the local sale and see if there were any buyers looking for anything. Since we have been selling there for over 30 years, in small quantities at first but now in some larger groups, they have always been pretty decent to us and let us know what is coming up. Also have a friend who is a dealer, and Michael talks to him once or twice a week so keeps up on the way prices are looking. I also go to the sale barn just to check in once or twice a month to sit for an hour or two to see how things are looking. It is right there where my preferred feed mill is so I can make a combined trip. And catch a meal in the restaurant at the sale too. When prices were high, any time was a good time to sell. This winter has been overall pretty decent, very little snow, we had some rain so that it was hard to get into the fields to load out stuff for a couple of weeks, but overall it has been alot better for all winter sales. Prices were off in dec but have rebounded some now. There was a couple of bred cow sales in dec; ought to be a few more coming up in a month or so as people get antsy for some stuff to go out on grass and they see the prices have been a little better than last fall. Hay is plentiful and cheap here now, so people feel they can pay a bit more for stuff. I have never seen the reasoning.... but I am "cheap" and we have made some money and expanded by buying some of the lower end stuff and turning them over. We also attend several bull sales here and just talk and listen to people. I think bulls are over priced in comparison to the feeders. We do buy mostly all good registered bulls to use on the cows. Raised a couple of bull calves that were et's in some cows we bought, and they have done real well. [/QUOTE]
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