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Went to a couple bull sales Thursday-- The Charolais one was not good--Had about 60 bulls and took 26 No Sales home with them...Sold a lot of $1200-1300 bulls...Good charolais cattle that normally has a much bigger following--Since this is the only local Charolais sale- it sure looked like the demand was down for Charolais....Seats everywhere in what is usually a packed house....
Angus sale was a small longtime local breeder and old friend that sold 22 bulls for an average of $2000- took one home that came in the ring on the prod- and he wouldn't sell as he prides himself in his quiet cattle.....About the same price as last year....
My son was able to get the 2 angus heifers he wanted but had to pay more than he wanted to get first choice-- price dropped about $100 a piece after he picked out the two he wanted-- and by the time they got picked over he could have bought the last 3 for what he paid for 2...
I spent yesterday afternoon at the Spear J/Bowles J5 Red Angus Joint Production sale...Sold about 90 bulls -20 registered heifers- and 35 commercial heifers...
Spear J did pretty good with their top bull selling for $7000- and quite a few bulls selling between $2000-3000-- but they had some $1000 bulls and a half dozen or so No Sales...The cousin that neighbors me picked up 8 or 9 real nice bulls of theirs....I don't think I've seen another set of red angus bulls as quiet as the Spear J ones-- pretty impressive....
Bowles J5 did not do as good tho- No Saling about 1/2 of their bulls..Their top end sold for $2800- with a couple selling for $2600...I don't know much about red genetics, but it seemed like some good genetics being sold awful cheap...They had a lot of calving ease and heifer bulls that a guy could have picked up for $1000-1200...
A guy could have picked up a whole string of bulls without spending over $1000 a piece......
Bowles registered heifers sold for between $900- $1125-- commercial heifers averaged around $800..
Angus sale was a small longtime local breeder and old friend that sold 22 bulls for an average of $2000- took one home that came in the ring on the prod- and he wouldn't sell as he prides himself in his quiet cattle.....About the same price as last year....
My son was able to get the 2 angus heifers he wanted but had to pay more than he wanted to get first choice-- price dropped about $100 a piece after he picked out the two he wanted-- and by the time they got picked over he could have bought the last 3 for what he paid for 2...
I spent yesterday afternoon at the Spear J/Bowles J5 Red Angus Joint Production sale...Sold about 90 bulls -20 registered heifers- and 35 commercial heifers...
Spear J did pretty good with their top bull selling for $7000- and quite a few bulls selling between $2000-3000-- but they had some $1000 bulls and a half dozen or so No Sales...The cousin that neighbors me picked up 8 or 9 real nice bulls of theirs....I don't think I've seen another set of red angus bulls as quiet as the Spear J ones-- pretty impressive....
Bowles J5 did not do as good tho- No Saling about 1/2 of their bulls..Their top end sold for $2800- with a couple selling for $2600...I don't know much about red genetics, but it seemed like some good genetics being sold awful cheap...They had a lot of calving ease and heifer bulls that a guy could have picked up for $1000-1200...
A guy could have picked up a whole string of bulls without spending over $1000 a piece......
Bowles registered heifers sold for between $900- $1125-- commercial heifers averaged around $800..