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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1799126" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>A couple weeks ago we shipped 30+ steers in the 560 wt range for 2.53 and 27 more in the 480 range for 2.55 and last week they supposedly brought in the 2.70's. Heifers in the 450-6 wts are at 2.00 or a little over... Sold about 20 odd ball colors/sizes 2 weeks ago.... We were going to graze the heifers, but found some 5 wt bulls in the 2.20's so bought them and are going to ship the 30+ heifers in the next week. The economy is soo crazy, the world situation with fighting and threats and all so uncertain, and add to that the wildly fluctuating weather with droughts in a fair amount of the southwest still and California going from extreme drought to extreme wet/flooding.... we are selling off what looks like a "sure thing" (the steers sold and the heifers to be sold) and taking a smaller risk on these bulls (actually, they are now steers)... because we don't have as much in them.... and not carrying over too much. We still have all the late fall born calves on the cows, and the spring calving cows now dropping calves... but we are not carrying over many replacement heifers this summer..... been cutting the less productive cattle... and unless they are good cows and easy to work with, not grafting calves on any that have lost them; only 3 so far anyway and 2 were not candidates to work with and the other took the calf in 24 hours and she is out and they are doing fine.....</p><p></p><p>We are running about 120 brood cows instead of the 140-150 we used to run; lost a couple lease places being sold... making a little less hay also... would rather let more grass grow up this year and have extra for extending the grazing season.... and you never know when it is going to get dry.... we can always make more hay on some of the pastures if it gets too far ahead of us.... </p><p></p><p>And, no, not keeping them past the 450-550 weight range.... it is the sweet spot here so may as well ship before there is more feed/grass in them than makes financial sense....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1799126, member: 25884"] A couple weeks ago we shipped 30+ steers in the 560 wt range for 2.53 and 27 more in the 480 range for 2.55 and last week they supposedly brought in the 2.70's. Heifers in the 450-6 wts are at 2.00 or a little over... Sold about 20 odd ball colors/sizes 2 weeks ago.... We were going to graze the heifers, but found some 5 wt bulls in the 2.20's so bought them and are going to ship the 30+ heifers in the next week. The economy is soo crazy, the world situation with fighting and threats and all so uncertain, and add to that the wildly fluctuating weather with droughts in a fair amount of the southwest still and California going from extreme drought to extreme wet/flooding.... we are selling off what looks like a "sure thing" (the steers sold and the heifers to be sold) and taking a smaller risk on these bulls (actually, they are now steers)... because we don't have as much in them.... and not carrying over too much. We still have all the late fall born calves on the cows, and the spring calving cows now dropping calves... but we are not carrying over many replacement heifers this summer..... been cutting the less productive cattle... and unless they are good cows and easy to work with, not grafting calves on any that have lost them; only 3 so far anyway and 2 were not candidates to work with and the other took the calf in 24 hours and she is out and they are doing fine..... We are running about 120 brood cows instead of the 140-150 we used to run; lost a couple lease places being sold... making a little less hay also... would rather let more grass grow up this year and have extra for extending the grazing season.... and you never know when it is going to get dry.... we can always make more hay on some of the pastures if it gets too far ahead of us.... And, no, not keeping them past the 450-550 weight range.... it is the sweet spot here so may as well ship before there is more feed/grass in them than makes financial sense.... [/QUOTE]
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