Livestock Yards vs. Superior Livestock Video/Internet

[Bucky]

What are your experiences with each and in your opinion which is better and why? I am interested in buying and selling experiences.
Thank you. :compute:

 

[BC]

With Superior or other satelitte/video auctions you need to have enough calves of similar weight, sex and age to make at least a half a truckload. You could sell a half a truckload of steers and half a truckload of heifers to make a truckload. A truckload is 48,000 to 50,000 lbs (80 hd of 600 lb calves would make a truckload).

The local sale gives you a place to market less than truckload lots and cattle with too much weight and age variance to suit most buyers.

 

[Stocker Steve]

I have a neighbor who buys off Superior. He works in an office in town so this allows him to shop easily!

I usually put together small groups from the local sales barns. Even if the color and size are are uniform when you buy them - - the genetics will show was you grow them out. I had a Superior rep come out last fall but he was not really interested in my steers because they were "not very uniform." The sales barn split them 4 ways when they sold. Sorting is what they do. Often the same buyer will buy two or more groups so they may have been sorted more than neccessary.

 

[Herefordcross]

The heifer and cow/calf pair lots are too large for me. I know it would take them longer but, if the split some of those in half they would get more money for them.