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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm2" data-source="post: 356505" data-attributes="member: 2095"><p>Jeanne it is different down south (at least). Lite weight calves typically bring higher per pound because backgrounders buy them and grow them out to heavier weights and sell them at a profit. Particularly down here, IF you have corn, cotton, or peanut land you can harvest your crop and then go and drill in rye, ryegrass, wheat, and/or oats to put a cover crop on there to protect your soil from the often heavy winter and early spring rains we get. You buy 4 wt calves for ~$1.26 /lb and sell them as 8 wt calves to a western feedlot for $.95/lb. Take out $20 a head for trucking, vaccinations, labor, etc and you got ~$240 a head to pay for the cost of the cover crop and a big payday right when they need it the most (planting time). Many pull the calves off in early March and get a wheat or oats crop out of the field as well. 700 lb calves would be a pain in that system. At 2.5 lbs a day they would weigh 1100++ lbs by end of March. The feedlots typically don't want really heavy new placements so the price received wouldn't be much more than they paid for the 700 lb calf initially. What some folks forget here in this discussion is that the buyers want lite weight GROWTHY calves. Often they will confuse a 8 month old weaned frame 2 for a 5 month old frame 5. IF you let that little toad guy get too fat or too mature where it is obvious that he is a toad and not just another summer calf from the tailend of the calving season; then there is USUALLY a significant dock. Since it looks like more land is going into corn than we have seen in our lifetimes, the demand for lite weight calves to go into winter wheat programs is probably going up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm2, post: 356505, member: 2095"] Jeanne it is different down south (at least). Lite weight calves typically bring higher per pound because backgrounders buy them and grow them out to heavier weights and sell them at a profit. Particularly down here, IF you have corn, cotton, or peanut land you can harvest your crop and then go and drill in rye, ryegrass, wheat, and/or oats to put a cover crop on there to protect your soil from the often heavy winter and early spring rains we get. You buy 4 wt calves for ~$1.26 /lb and sell them as 8 wt calves to a western feedlot for $.95/lb. Take out $20 a head for trucking, vaccinations, labor, etc and you got ~$240 a head to pay for the cost of the cover crop and a big payday right when they need it the most (planting time). Many pull the calves off in early March and get a wheat or oats crop out of the field as well. 700 lb calves would be a pain in that system. At 2.5 lbs a day they would weigh 1100++ lbs by end of March. The feedlots typically don't want really heavy new placements so the price received wouldn't be much more than they paid for the 700 lb calf initially. What some folks forget here in this discussion is that the buyers want lite weight GROWTHY calves. Often they will confuse a 8 month old weaned frame 2 for a 5 month old frame 5. IF you let that little toad guy get too fat or too mature where it is obvious that he is a toad and not just another summer calf from the tailend of the calving season; then there is USUALLY a significant dock. Since it looks like more land is going into corn than we have seen in our lifetimes, the demand for lite weight calves to go into winter wheat programs is probably going up. [/QUOTE]
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