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<blockquote data-quote="HDRider" data-source="post: 1683465" data-attributes="member: 17025"><p>I am still new to cattle. Some of you have spent a lifetime in this business, and have forgot more than I will ever know. I have now sold five calf crops.</p><p></p><p>Many of you know my opinion of how the cattle business is run. I think the deck is stacked very heavily against us. The <a href="https://www.provisioneronline.com/2019-top-100-meat-and-poultry-processors" target="_blank">processors</a> own the market, they control the market as much as one can.</p><p></p><p>I have done everything I can do to keep operating expenses down. I do not include capital costs, or land in my profit loss calculation. I have sold at every weight class to feel out the market.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/commodities/gf" target="_blank">Feeder cattle</a> are about $153 right now. 400# sells for $612.</p><p><a href="https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/commodities/le" target="_blank">Live cattle</a> are $116. 1,000# sells for $1,160.</p><p></p><p>I can get $3.50 per pound hanging weight. 600# hanging sells for $2,100</p><p></p><p>Sure I do a little more work, but not much. Of course my expenses are a little higher, again, not that much.</p><p></p><p>I can make money selling freezer beef. The processors know that. They will do everything than can to squash small processing facilities to keep me down, and themselves up.</p><p></p><p>We need lots of new small processing plants brought online.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HDRider, post: 1683465, member: 17025"] I am still new to cattle. Some of you have spent a lifetime in this business, and have forgot more than I will ever know. I have now sold five calf crops. Many of you know my opinion of how the cattle business is run. I think the deck is stacked very heavily against us. The [URL='https://www.provisioneronline.com/2019-top-100-meat-and-poultry-processors']processors[/URL] own the market, they control the market as much as one can. I have done everything I can do to keep operating expenses down. I do not include capital costs, or land in my profit loss calculation. I have sold at every weight class to feel out the market. [URL='https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/commodities/gf']Feeder cattle[/URL] are about $153 right now. 400# sells for $612. [URL='https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/commodities/le']Live cattle[/URL] are $116. 1,000# sells for $1,160. I can get $3.50 per pound hanging weight. 600# hanging sells for $2,100 Sure I do a little more work, but not much. Of course my expenses are a little higher, again, not that much. I can make money selling freezer beef. The processors know that. They will do everything than can to squash small processing facilities to keep me down, and themselves up. We need lots of new small processing plants brought online. [/QUOTE]
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