Stocker Steve
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Have been picking up some 3 wts to baby. Pricing seems a bit odd here. Bulls go for $200 a head more than heifers. Do you see this in your area?
If there is that kind of difference I'd be buying heifers...Have been picking up some 3 wts to baby. Pricing seems a bit odd here. Bulls go for $200 a head more than heifers. Do you see this in your area?
We take maternally challenged heifers to grass and freezer beef them at about 28 months. They don't hang a huge carcass, but some years they are more profitable than the good mothers...Looks like the difference here locally is $60-100. I would think if replacements are to become the commodity everybody thinks they will those 3 wt. heifers at a handy discount would be a good buy. You can always eat the ones that don't make the grade.
Why not go back into the breds business?heifers which I am not buying were about 10 cents back.
You are planning to dry lot next summer or taking them to native grass or?At this point I am just buying some to go along with the light weight calves from the BM cows which will be held over. With August feeder cattle futures at $1.95 I might go with steers a touch bigger and shoot for that 800 pound steer in August.
It will be another B and me deal. He has a pretty big leased pasture over on the flats in the Baker Valley. Yearlings go there every year. The place we put the BM cows is no place for yearlingsYou are planning to dry lot next summer or taking them to native grass or?