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<blockquote data-quote="Ky hills" data-source="post: 1822879" data-attributes="member: 24816"><p>I think we are misunderstanding each other, I believe your markets and ours are pretty similar we aren't the Midwest. in we don't have any fat cattle (slaughter cattle markets except for pound cows and bulls. A calf ready for slaughter is going to be docked like crazy here at the stockyards.</p><p>Most calves are sold either right off the cow or weaned a couple months. Most are sold in fairly small groups or singles, there are some larger farms that may sell several, or some people buy up those 400-500 or so pound calves and put a group together and run them in grass till 700-800 pounds and take them to market.</p><p>So yeah there's a lot of middlemen, in between the farmer and packer.</p><p>Some of the people that run the feeder (stocker) cattle will put together groups of 100 or more.</p><p>But depending on the run at a yards on a given day there might be 10 calves in a weight class or on a big run 200 head. Sometimes it may take a while and going to several auctions to a group or load together</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ky hills, post: 1822879, member: 24816"] I think we are misunderstanding each other, I believe your markets and ours are pretty similar we aren’t the Midwest. in we don’t have any fat cattle (slaughter cattle markets except for pound cows and bulls. A calf ready for slaughter is going to be docked like crazy here at the stockyards. Most calves are sold either right off the cow or weaned a couple months. Most are sold in fairly small groups or singles, there are some larger farms that may sell several, or some people buy up those 400-500 or so pound calves and put a group together and run them in grass till 700-800 pounds and take them to market. So yeah there’s a lot of middlemen, in between the farmer and packer. Some of the people that run the feeder (stocker) cattle will put together groups of 100 or more. But depending on the run at a yards on a given day there might be 10 calves in a weight class or on a big run 200 head. Sometimes it may take a while and going to several auctions to a group or load together [/QUOTE]
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