Feeders last week in Staunton Va were up.... heard that some steers were in the low 1.80's...... 4-5 wt heifers were up to 1.48.... I watched some of them before the bred cow sale.... we have about 50 head going tomorrow.... 4-6 wts, about half heifers and half steers.... got in to the one place today without getting stuck and brought 25 cow/cf pairs out. Most cows are pushing the 7+ month bred since we couldn't get them out like they were supposed to be end of Jan.... hoping calves will do good. Had the rest at the barn on silage and feed for 6+ weeks but the mud has been absolutely horrible so they have not done quite as well as I would have liked....
3 open cows... 2 have NO TEETH so that is fine. The other will go back with a bull, nice young cow, 2nd calf, has a whopping 5+ wt steer on her. She can get one more try.
Looking at some breds/calving now, cows, $1250.... son is going to go look at them in person. We(he) are trying to "upgrade" a bit and get some "nicer" cows....he wants to have some that are more beefy.... I'm not sure that I want 13-1400 lb cows.... but a dozen that will have a calf to sell this fall/winter coming might be a good comparison. Most of ours will go 11-1200 on average.
I like the low end one and dones like
@Dave does.... and the older reliable ones that I can get for the 8-900 range and get a couple more calves out of and maybe retain a few heifers for future cows.... but then I am a bit of a cheapskate....