Menu
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
New profile posts
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Forums
Cattle Boards
Beginners Board
How about this niche in the market?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Help Support CattleToday:
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Dana Kopp" data-source="post: 131752" data-attributes="member: 873"><p>Admittedly when prices are up its hard to justify some of the purchases - but when we bought ours cow prices were in the toilet and just beginning to barely climb out. We actually bought the cows private treaty not at the yards, but we have bought pairs at the yards since with pretty similar results. It is the job of the yards to get the most money for you - but they aren't going to screw their buyers and the buyers aren't going to let themselves get screwed. The yards take either a flat fee from each purchase or a percentage of your total check so they get their cut too. Splitting pairs gives different bidders with different needs the opportunity to fill their truck, buy a calf, replace a cow, yada yada yada. We have noticed that when our yards splits pairs most of the time the price difference is only slightly more than if they had sold them together. The last sale with a fair amount of pairs that were split the price difference was between $10 - $50 more on the cow + calf versus the last bid pair price. So much depends on the age & health of the cow, age & health of the calf, & the number of buyers at your yards. As pretty much everyone has said, you'd have to be pretty selective on your purchases and the prices you pay for them or you wouldn't make any money on either end!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dana Kopp, post: 131752, member: 873"] Admittedly when prices are up its hard to justify some of the purchases - but when we bought ours cow prices were in the toilet and just beginning to barely climb out. We actually bought the cows private treaty not at the yards, but we have bought pairs at the yards since with pretty similar results. It is the job of the yards to get the most money for you - but they aren't going to screw their buyers and the buyers aren't going to let themselves get screwed. The yards take either a flat fee from each purchase or a percentage of your total check so they get their cut too. Splitting pairs gives different bidders with different needs the opportunity to fill their truck, buy a calf, replace a cow, yada yada yada. We have noticed that when our yards splits pairs most of the time the price difference is only slightly more than if they had sold them together. The last sale with a fair amount of pairs that were split the price difference was between $10 - $50 more on the cow + calf versus the last bid pair price. So much depends on the age & health of the cow, age & health of the calf, & the number of buyers at your yards. As pretty much everyone has said, you'd have to be pretty selective on your purchases and the prices you pay for them or you wouldn't make any money on either end! [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Cattle Boards
Beginners Board
How about this niche in the market?
Top