Muddy
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Just dropped off 15 heifers and 15 steers tonight at the sale barn for tomorrow's special feeder sale day. Will post the results and the average prices tomorrow.
Sale Day tomorrow
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pricefarm
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Good luck!!
True Grit Farms
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Muddy":pt0lbf6g said:
Are they Longhorns? If not you should be tickled with your check.
Good luck! Prices seem to be rebounding a little.
FlyingLSimmentals
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Good Luck with them, hope they do well for ya.
J&D Cattle
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I'd say they were up a dime here on Monday while I was there. I heard the bidders really dropped off towards the end of the sale though.
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Muddy
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Prices for the 5wt and 6wt calves are very inconsistent but usually between 1.10-1.21 per lbs for steers, 1.05-1.15 for heifers. Lot of mixed colored groups, very few uniformed black groups and seems that the buyers are preferred knife cut steers over banded steers which that's why we got $1.18 per lbs for our steers (averaged 605lbs) since we banded them. Char influenced feeders do poorly, usually between .90 to 1.00 per lbs. Intact bulls are .20 cents less. Our heifers did well averaged 660lbs and sold for $1.10. The belted steers weighted 607lbs, sold for $660 per head. One belted heifer is only 4 cents less than our heifers. Few belted feeders (other people's ones) only got docked for 5 cents. A group of Longhorn X Hereford steers sold for $1.17. Dairy X beef calves do poorly, none of them got past $390.
RanchMan90
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Not bad, Seem to be in line with prices here. Should pay to keep the cows around another year.
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Muddy
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Me too, the prices didn't change much from last week and two weeks ago. I was shocked to see CharX feeders got docked hard this year and the belted X feeders outselling the CharX. Buyers are very fussy with banded, knife cut and vaccine types this time, hence the inconsistency in prices.RanchMan90":20hi5c6l said:
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Muddy
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Saw Longhorn cross ones, they sold very good.True Grit Farms":xk0i5s7s said:
True Grit Farms
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Muddy":30o00u42 said:
They must of been crossed with Brahman for that to happen.
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Muddy
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Zero Brahman here in Minnesota.True Grit Farms":30uypa3y said:
MudHog
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Guy I used to work with sold 13 calves Monday. Averaged 400 lbs and got $1.08/lb for them. Don't know what number heifers/bulls.
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Muddy
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OUCH. The 4wt calves were bringing $1.23-$1.30 per lbs today.MudHog":6xnozwc5 said:
RanchMan90
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Same here @ $1.20-1.30. Southeast calves are always cheaper due to freight though, didn't mention if they were bra influence either.Muddy":3mpcp45q said:
MudHog
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He did better than $0.80/lb someone else I know sold for 2 weeks ago.
I'm keeping my 5 calves through the winter. Fixing to pen them to wean off the cows.
I'm keeping my 5 calves through the winter. Fixing to pen them to wean off the cows.
Why would they prefer knife cut steers over banded?
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Muddy
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Less chances for getting a stag with one nut or both nuts.TCRanch":1g5dx37w said:
Light calves have seen a good jump here this week due to it being time for turnout cattle, the rain starting to come and a little optimism starting to finally show itself on the board.
A buyer working an auction for me today said front end weaned steers weighing 440lbs. brought $151.50 today in Visalia and their heifer mates brought $128.50 at the same weight.
A buyer working an auction for me today said front end weaned steers weighing 440lbs. brought $151.50 today in Visalia and their heifer mates brought $128.50 at the same weight.
