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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 1558236" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>I ran up against the issue in Western Washington. Cattle with a poor reputation which most deserved. Not enough cattle at the sale on any week to make it worth while for the big boy to come and buy. I ended up doing three different things all of which worked. One was to get others with good cattle to go together and share a semi. They were hauled to a central location to load on the truck. Everyone used different colored ear tags or in my case they were branded so they wouldn't get mixed up and they loaded in the truck in a manner to keep them separate. The second I became one of those traders for a week or two. I bought good quality calves that would match up with my calves. Took them home, weaned and preconditioned along with my calves. Added enough to make a load. The price difference was good enough that I always came out. The third was to do the same thing except I sold them on the video. That worked. However, the issue goes back to the same thing of the reputation of cattle from your region. I always thought there needed to be a way to give them a different address to sell from.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 1558236, member: 498"] I ran up against the issue in Western Washington. Cattle with a poor reputation which most deserved. Not enough cattle at the sale on any week to make it worth while for the big boy to come and buy. I ended up doing three different things all of which worked. One was to get others with good cattle to go together and share a semi. They were hauled to a central location to load on the truck. Everyone used different colored ear tags or in my case they were branded so they wouldn't get mixed up and they loaded in the truck in a manner to keep them separate. The second I became one of those traders for a week or two. I bought good quality calves that would match up with my calves. Took them home, weaned and preconditioned along with my calves. Added enough to make a load. The price difference was good enough that I always came out. The third was to do the same thing except I sold them on the video. That worked. However, the issue goes back to the same thing of the reputation of cattle from your region. I always thought there needed to be a way to give them a different address to sell from. [/QUOTE]
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