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<blockquote data-quote="Stocker Steve" data-source="post: 489077" data-attributes="member: 1715"><p>You can ask around or put an ad in the paper to find a ditch grazer who wants a couple calves in the spring - - but putting together these small groups of calves, and putting together cull cows & baloney bulls, is what the auction barn does.</p><p></p><p>I have told people what I am paying per pound but they usually want to spend a day hauling them in to the auction barn in a borrowed bumper hitch to take a chance on who is there and when they go through the ring. Kind of a tax subsidized trip to the casino...</p><p></p><p>If you get into the Bud William's sell-buy marketing approach they talk about selling barns (higher average price/cwt.) and buying barns (lower average price/cwt). I kept good records last fall when we bought out of 4 barns in the same area at the same time - - and the average price/cwt by barn ranged by $7 for heifers and $15 for steers.</p><p></p><p>I think the most profit per head for a small herd comes from by passing all the middlemen (not just the auction barn) and selling freezer beef.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stocker Steve, post: 489077, member: 1715"] You can ask around or put an ad in the paper to find a ditch grazer who wants a couple calves in the spring - - but putting together these small groups of calves, and putting together cull cows & baloney bulls, is what the auction barn does. I have told people what I am paying per pound but they usually want to spend a day hauling them in to the auction barn in a borrowed bumper hitch to take a chance on who is there and when they go through the ring. Kind of a tax subsidized trip to the casino... If you get into the Bud William's sell-buy marketing approach they talk about selling barns (higher average price/cwt.) and buying barns (lower average price/cwt). I kept good records last fall when we bought out of 4 barns in the same area at the same time - - and the average price/cwt by barn ranged by $7 for heifers and $15 for steers. I think the most profit per head for a small herd comes from by passing all the middlemen (not just the auction barn) and selling freezer beef. [/QUOTE]
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