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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 940510" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>I am not in a cattle finishing area either but I do find a fat steer or two at most every sale (actually fat heifers seem to be what I find most often but they work too). Some weeks there will be none but some weeks there will be half a dozen. People raise a couple to eat and sell and their sales don't work out so they take the extra steer to the sale. They come in small enough numbers that the buyers aren't there putting together loads to ship to the plant. So I am able to buy them well under the real world fat cattle market.</p></blockquote><p>Wow so what you are saying is that you can in fact buy a good quality finished steer or heifer for below the market, and yet others in the area need an exorbitant amount of money for the same quality steer or heifer and they still won't make MUCH?[/quote]</p><p></p><p>When you raise it from a calf and buy feed by the sack from the local high price feed store it cost a lot to finish them. I don't buy feed by the sack. And I don't raise the ones I sell as locker beef from a calf. I often sell calves for as many dollars as I can buy ready to or near ready to butcher animals (especially heifers for some reason).</p><p>I bought a heifer about month ago. Wasn't very big but in real good shape. Weighed around 950. I paid a little over $900 for her. This week she hung up at 613 pounds. At $2.35 a pound hanging that is $1,440. I made $500 in a month on her. As I said I feel a little guilty charging $2.35. She was a little smaller than the fat cattle market wants but certainly the size that lots of people like when buying a half a beef. And she will eat real good. As I said before I am selling at the bottom end of the prices locally. I know that there are people who pass me by to pay more because they figure if it cost more it must be better.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 940510, member: 498"] I am not in a cattle finishing area either but I do find a fat steer or two at most every sale (actually fat heifers seem to be what I find most often but they work too). Some weeks there will be none but some weeks there will be half a dozen. People raise a couple to eat and sell and their sales don't work out so they take the extra steer to the sale. They come in small enough numbers that the buyers aren't there putting together loads to ship to the plant. So I am able to buy them well under the real world fat cattle market.[/quote] Wow so what you are saying is that you can in fact buy a good quality finished steer or heifer for below the market, and yet others in the area need an exorbitant amount of money for the same quality steer or heifer and they still won't make MUCH?[/quote] When you raise it from a calf and buy feed by the sack from the local high price feed store it cost a lot to finish them. I don't buy feed by the sack. And I don't raise the ones I sell as locker beef from a calf. I often sell calves for as many dollars as I can buy ready to or near ready to butcher animals (especially heifers for some reason). I bought a heifer about month ago. Wasn't very big but in real good shape. Weighed around 950. I paid a little over $900 for her. This week she hung up at 613 pounds. At $2.35 a pound hanging that is $1,440. I made $500 in a month on her. As I said I feel a little guilty charging $2.35. She was a little smaller than the fat cattle market wants but certainly the size that lots of people like when buying a half a beef. And she will eat real good. As I said before I am selling at the bottom end of the prices locally. I know that there are people who pass me by to pay more because they figure if it cost more it must be better. [/QUOTE]
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