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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1737589" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>Guess you have to take the good with the bad. We hit a home run yesterday. Took 29 nice steers to town. Weaned, vac, bunk conditioned... sold in 2 groups 14 and 15.. had one that went over a gate as there was supposed to be 30.... Anyway... the ones that weighed in the 465 wts brought 2.05... bidding was brisk. We had hoped for 1.85.... the ones that weighed in the 560's brought 1.90.... Some were calves we raised off our own cows, some were bought calves, mostly bulls that we castrated and conditioned. I think my DS has found what he is best at....we had a friend that is a grader come and look and helped sort them on Wed afternoon and we put them on one side of the barn and the others and the heifers we were planning to sell on the otherside. They have been getting corn silage and hay; weaned 60-90 days. </p><p>The early smaller stuff was off about $. 30 from last Friday... with the sudden jump in fuel prices last weekend, I was sure that we would get hurt.... but they did REAL GOOD. We sold the last 12 heifers for 1.43 they weighed in the 450+ range... this guy has been paying going rate and we take them to his barn, run across the scales, and he pays us on the spot. Closer than the stockyard, easier in and out, no sitting waiting to unload. I think we will not be replacing so many cows and he will transition more to this buying and conditioning and selling. They will not always do this good, but he likes this better than dealing with cow/calf pairs. Not me, I am a cow/calf person. We still have alot of summer pastures that the cow/calf pairs work better at....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1737589, member: 25884"] Guess you have to take the good with the bad. We hit a home run yesterday. Took 29 nice steers to town. Weaned, vac, bunk conditioned... sold in 2 groups 14 and 15.. had one that went over a gate as there was supposed to be 30.... Anyway... the ones that weighed in the 465 wts brought 2.05... bidding was brisk. We had hoped for 1.85.... the ones that weighed in the 560's brought 1.90.... Some were calves we raised off our own cows, some were bought calves, mostly bulls that we castrated and conditioned. I think my DS has found what he is best at....we had a friend that is a grader come and look and helped sort them on Wed afternoon and we put them on one side of the barn and the others and the heifers we were planning to sell on the otherside. They have been getting corn silage and hay; weaned 60-90 days. The early smaller stuff was off about $. 30 from last Friday... with the sudden jump in fuel prices last weekend, I was sure that we would get hurt.... but they did REAL GOOD. We sold the last 12 heifers for 1.43 they weighed in the 450+ range... this guy has been paying going rate and we take them to his barn, run across the scales, and he pays us on the spot. Closer than the stockyard, easier in and out, no sitting waiting to unload. I think we will not be replacing so many cows and he will transition more to this buying and conditioning and selling. They will not always do this good, but he likes this better than dealing with cow/calf pairs. Not me, I am a cow/calf person. We still have alot of summer pastures that the cow/calf pairs work better at.... [/QUOTE]
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