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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 2159"><p>There are 3 or 4 weekday sale barns within pretty easy driving distance from my place, each having a sale on a different day of the week. I hear a lot of purely anecdotal evidence that the price for calves varies quite a bit depending on which sale barn you use. And a couple of "old-timers" have told me that they always sell at one barn but buy at a different barn, due to real or imagined price differences.</p><p></p><p>I've wanted to run a little experiment for a long time, but have never been able to actually do it, and wonder if any of you have ever tried doing something like the following:</p><p></p><p>Round up say 9 steers (or heifers) that you feel are of essentially equal quality, same color, approx. the same weight, etc. and take 3 each to various salebarns, on succeeding days so that you are sure of selling very comparable animals and all within a 2 or 3 day time period. I wonder if doing this several times would reveal whether there is in fact a meaningful difference in prices paid to the seller depending on which barn is used. I realize that they all publish after the fact price ranges for various classes of calves sold, but I think such data is much too broad and imprecise to use for purposes of making this "test".</p><p></p><p>Has anybody tried doing something similar to what I outlined above?</p><p></p><p>Any order buyers out there that care to give their thoughts?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 2159"] There are 3 or 4 weekday sale barns within pretty easy driving distance from my place, each having a sale on a different day of the week. I hear a lot of purely anecdotal evidence that the price for calves varies quite a bit depending on which sale barn you use. And a couple of "old-timers" have told me that they always sell at one barn but buy at a different barn, due to real or imagined price differences. I've wanted to run a little experiment for a long time, but have never been able to actually do it, and wonder if any of you have ever tried doing something like the following: Round up say 9 steers (or heifers) that you feel are of essentially equal quality, same color, approx. the same weight, etc. and take 3 each to various salebarns, on succeeding days so that you are sure of selling very comparable animals and all within a 2 or 3 day time period. I wonder if doing this several times would reveal whether there is in fact a meaningful difference in prices paid to the seller depending on which barn is used. I realize that they all publish after the fact price ranges for various classes of calves sold, but I think such data is much too broad and imprecise to use for purposes of making this "test". Has anybody tried doing something similar to what I outlined above? Any order buyers out there that care to give their thoughts? [/QUOTE]
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