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Beef is going to be real expensive soon enough.
People are starting to talk about low numbers
This is just my opinion...It's been expensive for so long now, that on the consumer end, we really don't notice an upward trend very much. I bought a brisket last week for $51.?? and thought that was pretty cheap.
2 1/2lbs coarse ground chuck for chili today was $8 & change and I just dropped it in the shopping cart. Maybe I look at things different than most shoppers because of my past or because I'm just feeding wife and I and not a wife and 4 kids anymore, but I don't see the retail end being really really high...yet.

Blue Bell can go $10 1/2 gal and I'm still gonna buy it.
Now, $5 for a dozen eggs? That gets under my skin a bit but then I remember, it IS winter..
 
just sent 10 steers and 7 heifers to our first sale of the year (Thursday). did pretty good at last sale of '24. I need to ship some cows, we are dry as heck around here though still seem to have some standing feed. it sure hasn't washed out from the rain and snow this winter.:rolleyes:
 
I heard that they had 900 cows preg check and still more to do for the sale tomorrow. And it wasn't an advertised bred cow sale. Going to be interesting how high they go.
 
I heard that they had 900 cows preg check and still more to do for the sale tomorrow. And it wasn't an advertised bred cow sale. Going to be interesting how high they go.
I'm starting to really wonder (maybe more than I ever have) if anyone really has any idea how many cows are in the country. You would think we would start seeing smaller sales but it's been quite the opposite the last couple years.
 
I'm starting to really wonder (maybe more than I ever have) if anyone really has any idea how many cows are in the country. You would think we would start seeing smaller sales but it's been quite the opposite the last couple years.
Same thing here!
Everyone says there's a shortage. Then 500 more cows roll in. And they just keep coming. Me thinks the ones who know, don't know anything. Why I'm surprised I don't know!
 
Just pretend you were taking one of those 1500# steers to the locker. The average person would faint when told how many dollars went in the rendering truck.I wold think this price will do away with some of the waiting list at the small processors.
 
I'm starting to really wonder (maybe more than I ever have) if anyone really has any idea how many cows are in the country. You would think we would start seeing smaller sales but it's been quite the opposite the last couple years.
In this case 850 of these cows are coming from 2 different dispersal. As B said they are probably waiting until after the first of the year to put the income on 2025 taxes. One is 400 cows owned by a big family owned logging company from over on the coast. My guess is the management has changed and they are not interested in running cows clear across the state. The other is a huge investor type outfit. I see their main place is for sale for a couple jillion dollars. They probably sold one of their smaller ranches so they are selling 450 cows from that place.
 
For here, there is not a shortage of good cows, just a shortage of old one and done money making cows. Big cows over 1400 lbs, middle age and older have very little chance of going back to the farm unless they are 7 months or better bred.
They are expensive because of their size but are probably the best buy unless the packer market collapses.
 
Same thing here!
Everyone says there's a shortage. Then 500 more cows roll in. And they just keep coming. Me thinks the ones who know, don't know anything. Why I'm surprised I don't know!
I've been wondering a lot about how messed up some of the environmental logic is and how agriculture has been forced to change over several years. The Netherlands getting rid of livestock, and Sri Lanka ending the use of commercial fertilizers and ruining their production, going from a net exporter to a net importer. And anti-meat laws in Germany and other countries considering them.
And the Ag schools staying silent for some reason.
 
Well cows sold today. Not traders, or order buyers. Ranchers I have never seen before buying semi loads of cows. You probably needed to have at least $2,500 per cow in your pocket if you wanted to play. Top end was $3,000. The 9-10 year old cows were about $2,500. Broken mouth cows hit $2,300. And all of that was selling 10-20 + cows at a whack. I was able to sneak out at the end of the sale with 3 cows sold as singles for $1,850. Not the finest cows I have ever bought but they are in my corral now.
 
I just saw 15xx lb steers hit 2.20 in iowa and Lowery Land Livestock 80 steers @ 660 @ $340! = over 2200 a hd!
 
I can't think the coolers are that empty after the holidays? But maybe they are.
It kinda sounds like all bets are off now. $2 fat cattle may be the new standard for awhile.
 
I have not checked lately but the ''drop'' value has to be going up for these high prices to work.Tripe, lips, sweetbreads and kidneys are the same price as rib-eyes when they are sold live.
Last I checked hides and offal were running in the $10-$11 a hundred range. That was a couple of weeks ago.
 
Kind of funny but it makes good management sense. One corporate outfit that has thousands of cows sold 400+ cows yesterday. When they started on their cows. There was a couple of small groups of 6-7 month bred cows. Kind of ratty looking culls. Followed by a lot of good looking cows all 4 or 5 months bred. My thought was they had preg checked and sold off the late calving cows. There is a big difference in size between a February calf and a May calf come fall when calves are sold. So take advantage of high cow prices and sell off those late calving cows.
 

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