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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky" data-source="post: 1811861" data-attributes="member: 32659"><p>If you think a local barn runs through allot of cattle you need to watch the Monday sale at OKC. You can watch it on video and it takes most of the day. We sold there last week and it was a smaller feeder sale with only 6500 hd or so. </p><p></p><p> The cattle sold over 850# are most likely going to feedlots, everything else is grouped by weight and going to buyers running yearling operations. Around here yearling guy will run anywhere from 500-10,000 hd.</p><p>The guys buying these cattle don't have time to sit in a salebarn buying cattle so get order buyers to do it. </p><p></p><p> On the cow side most larger operators have a guy buying cows for them every week. They have a good relationship with the buyer so he knows what they want. I've never bought a cow from a salebarn myself. We call a local guy that hits 3-4 barns a week and he charges $10 a head to buy us cows. I'm not sitting at a salebarn all day to save $10 a head. </p><p></p><p> You do realize that allot of cattle sold at local barns are sold on video now too? The guy buying at the sale you were at might have been on vacation in Mexico bidding on cattle at West,Tx. </p><p></p><p> Look up National Livestock and see the amount of feeder cattle those guys run around the country. They have a really good finance program for yearling operators too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky, post: 1811861, member: 32659"] If you think a local barn runs through allot of cattle you need to watch the Monday sale at OKC. You can watch it on video and it takes most of the day. We sold there last week and it was a smaller feeder sale with only 6500 hd or so. The cattle sold over 850# are most likely going to feedlots, everything else is grouped by weight and going to buyers running yearling operations. Around here yearling guy will run anywhere from 500-10,000 hd. The guys buying these cattle don't have time to sit in a salebarn buying cattle so get order buyers to do it. On the cow side most larger operators have a guy buying cows for them every week. They have a good relationship with the buyer so he knows what they want. I've never bought a cow from a salebarn myself. We call a local guy that hits 3-4 barns a week and he charges $10 a head to buy us cows. I'm not sitting at a salebarn all day to save $10 a head. You do realize that allot of cattle sold at local barns are sold on video now too? The guy buying at the sale you were at might have been on vacation in Mexico bidding on cattle at West,Tx. Look up National Livestock and see the amount of feeder cattle those guys run around the country. They have a really good finance program for yearling operators too. [/QUOTE]
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