Caustic Burno":172p0lq3 said:
No but you still have to pay the commission and fees.
That varys from one barn to the next and depends on how well you know the owners and how much business you do there. It's not something I do every week, but when I do it I've never paid commision or any of the fee's.
I have nothing against it, but for the average cow calf person I don't see a need for it unless you truly are getting done wrong by a barn. 99% of the time, like it or not you are getting exactly what your cattle are worth that day. The need for bidding on your own and buying back is more of something a trader like myself has to do when I would be better off taking something back home and feeding it a while longer than to take what I might be getting.