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<blockquote data-quote="Amo" data-source="post: 845761" data-attributes="member: 14857"><p>Exactly. If your not using the cattle/grain etc. as a back up against your puts and calls or vise versa, you are playing the stock market. Its just in Chicago instead of Wall Street. For cow calf its kinda hard to do it, thought about it alot though. I do think it would be pretty easy to "burn" up your possiable profit by buying lots of puts and calls. I know they say there is a sucker who thinks its going to go the other way and buy what your trying to dump...but whos to say who is right? Dang speculators anyhow. They sure mess up supply and demand!</p><p></p><p>If I was going to do it, Id find my own order buyer. The feedlot doesn't make money if they aren't full. Really thats all they are concerned about. I cant telly ya weather to buy poorer quality cattle or good English type, but make sure they have had a good health program. My newphew worked for a guy that bought cheap stuff out of the south east. Must of never seen a shot, and the owner they were feeding for wanted it done as cheap as possiable. Gave them a shot of nuflor right off the truck and that was it. They averaged a death loss of 3 a week! That would of bought better quality cattle or tons of vaccine even if they did it when they got to the lot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Amo, post: 845761, member: 14857"] Exactly. If your not using the cattle/grain etc. as a back up against your puts and calls or vise versa, you are playing the stock market. Its just in Chicago instead of Wall Street. For cow calf its kinda hard to do it, thought about it alot though. I do think it would be pretty easy to "burn" up your possiable profit by buying lots of puts and calls. I know they say there is a sucker who thinks its going to go the other way and buy what your trying to dump...but whos to say who is right? Dang speculators anyhow. They sure mess up supply and demand! If I was going to do it, Id find my own order buyer. The feedlot doesn't make money if they aren't full. Really thats all they are concerned about. I cant telly ya weather to buy poorer quality cattle or good English type, but make sure they have had a good health program. My newphew worked for a guy that bought cheap stuff out of the south east. Must of never seen a shot, and the owner they were feeding for wanted it done as cheap as possiable. Gave them a shot of nuflor right off the truck and that was it. They averaged a death loss of 3 a week! That would of bought better quality cattle or tons of vaccine even if they did it when they got to the lot. [/QUOTE]
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