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<blockquote data-quote="stocky" data-source="post: 636055" data-attributes="member: 1150"><p>In my area, it is just as important what the weather is out west as it is locally for feeder calves. Buyers have to be able to buy and ship. Last week, most calves were down 2-10 dollars per hundred from the week before. That means lesser quality calves were down 15-20, but you definitely didnt feel that your calves were lesser quality. This is another test of a sales barn operator. The good ones are honest, but they also have access to enough money and cattle orders to buy all the cattle they need to at that sale to keep the buyers from breaking the market for awhile during the sale or for that week at that sale. My dad bought a great calf to butcher, black white face, weighed 600 and had been grain fed for several months. We were raising our own but this one was being raised to butcher and the owner had to sell it. He paid 46 cents per pound in December and I guarantee the owner of that calf was livid. This was at a sale barn I buy at, not one I sell at. We butchered it and it is one of the best we have ever eaten. The one we were feeding weighed just under 600 and brought .98 cents when we sold him in January.</p><p>For slaughter cows and bulls, many times the worse the local weather, the better the slaughter price because it cuts down on supply. Slaughter bulls are bringing 55-65 cents here. I know they were alot higher than that for awhile, but that is higher than they normally are. I would sell that bull as quickly as I could get him loaded. There isnt enough money in the world to replace what he can potentially do to you or one of your family or friends. I have never had a bull chase me or run me up a tree or try to fight me. I have been fortunate enough so far that the first moment I sense they are starting to get the look in the eye that they may be changing attitude, they are gone. Do the safe thing in this case---good luck.</p><p> I just want to echo what has already been said. We have had great prices longer than ever in history. I hope it doesnt happen, but people need to prepare for what they are going to do when the slaughter cows are worth 20 cents and the feeders are worth 45-50 cents at 500 lbs. This what they were a dozen years ago or so. I hope it never happens, but there are alot of people who are living in a dream thinking prices will always be 90 cents or higher on calves.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stocky, post: 636055, member: 1150"] In my area, it is just as important what the weather is out west as it is locally for feeder calves. Buyers have to be able to buy and ship. Last week, most calves were down 2-10 dollars per hundred from the week before. That means lesser quality calves were down 15-20, but you definitely didnt feel that your calves were lesser quality. This is another test of a sales barn operator. The good ones are honest, but they also have access to enough money and cattle orders to buy all the cattle they need to at that sale to keep the buyers from breaking the market for awhile during the sale or for that week at that sale. My dad bought a great calf to butcher, black white face, weighed 600 and had been grain fed for several months. We were raising our own but this one was being raised to butcher and the owner had to sell it. He paid 46 cents per pound in December and I guarantee the owner of that calf was livid. This was at a sale barn I buy at, not one I sell at. We butchered it and it is one of the best we have ever eaten. The one we were feeding weighed just under 600 and brought .98 cents when we sold him in January. For slaughter cows and bulls, many times the worse the local weather, the better the slaughter price because it cuts down on supply. Slaughter bulls are bringing 55-65 cents here. I know they were alot higher than that for awhile, but that is higher than they normally are. I would sell that bull as quickly as I could get him loaded. There isnt enough money in the world to replace what he can potentially do to you or one of your family or friends. I have never had a bull chase me or run me up a tree or try to fight me. I have been fortunate enough so far that the first moment I sense they are starting to get the look in the eye that they may be changing attitude, they are gone. Do the safe thing in this case---good luck. I just want to echo what has already been said. We have had great prices longer than ever in history. I hope it doesnt happen, but people need to prepare for what they are going to do when the slaughter cows are worth 20 cents and the feeders are worth 45-50 cents at 500 lbs. This what they were a dozen years ago or so. I hope it never happens, but there are alot of people who are living in a dream thinking prices will always be 90 cents or higher on calves. [/QUOTE]
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