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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 2538"><p>Every situation maybe different, but in southern Illinois, I have two main selling options. I can either send them to the local sale barn, or I can send them to be slaughtered through IBP/Tyson. I was told the last time I talked to a IBP representitive that essentially all the fat cattle that go through the sale barns in this area end up being slaughtered at IBP. Case in point, last year I sold part of an identical group of fat cattle to IBP and part to the sale barn. I netted $100 per head more from selling them to IBP. So the buyer at the sale barn could have just grossed $100 per head off the cattle I had sold. One of the buyers at the sale barn never sees the cattle wxcept when bidding on them. After he buys them, they are loaded up on a semi and taken directly to the slaughtering plant. Anyway, not all the buyers buy for companies. I plan on trying to be an individual buyer at the local sale barns myself within the next couple months.</p><p></p><p> <a href="mailto:gruntngobble@hotmail.com">gruntngobble@hotmail.com</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 2538"] Every situation maybe different, but in southern Illinois, I have two main selling options. I can either send them to the local sale barn, or I can send them to be slaughtered through IBP/Tyson. I was told the last time I talked to a IBP representitive that essentially all the fat cattle that go through the sale barns in this area end up being slaughtered at IBP. Case in point, last year I sold part of an identical group of fat cattle to IBP and part to the sale barn. I netted $100 per head more from selling them to IBP. So the buyer at the sale barn could have just grossed $100 per head off the cattle I had sold. One of the buyers at the sale barn never sees the cattle wxcept when bidding on them. After he buys them, they are loaded up on a semi and taken directly to the slaughtering plant. Anyway, not all the buyers buy for companies. I plan on trying to be an individual buyer at the local sale barns myself within the next couple months. [email=gruntngobble@hotmail.com]gruntngobble@hotmail.com[/email] [/QUOTE]
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