Record feeder price

[EFV]

At these prices what are the odds cull dairy animals are being sorted
for possible select cut salvage ? Wouldn't take too much for some of
these "specials" to be made available to high volume customers.

 

[DoubleO7]

Getting closer.............................

Ever see the movie Soylent Green?

 

[TerryfromSWIowa]

Getting closer.............................

Ever see the movie Soylent Green?

"It's the people"

 

[730 virgil]

a couple weeks ago i was chatting with man i know i asked him if he and his brother were still feeding cattle he said the last couple of thet sold brought them lots of money but we cant afford ta buy new ones back so lot will be empty for a while.

 

[72supr]

950# steers at Kimball S.D. $3.75. The good times are here for awhile anyway

 

[jhwis]

950# steers at Kimball S.D. $3.75. The good times are here for awhile anyway

I saw 115 lb calf go for $1500 today at Premier...north central Wisconsin.

 

[Bruce from Can.]

I saw 115 lb calf go for $1500 today at Premier...north central Wisconsin.

It’s just crazy for a calf that young

 

[rrlund]

I saw 115 lb calf go for $1500 today at Premier...north central Wisconsin.

Was that $1500 for the calf or $1500 per cwt? If it was the latter, it would have been $1725.

 

[jhwis]

Was that $1500 for the calf or $1500 per cwt? If it was the latter, it would have been $1725.

It was 1500 for the calf. They sell by the head. Saw some 90 lb calves go for 1250.

 

[jhwis]

It was 1500 for the calf. They sell by the head. Saw some 90 lb calves go for 1250.

What are 500 lb'ers gonna bring come November? Good lord. My cattle guy in Minnesota says there aren't any calves to fill the pens. Hyperbole, but I get his point.

 

[rrlund]

It was 1500 for the calf. They sell by the head. Saw some 90 lb calves go for 1250.

OK, because when I used to sell Holstein bull calves through the ring, they sold by the pound.

 

[GeneMO]

Guess I will remain at Cavier tastes, with a bologna budget.

Gene

 

[m16ty]

OK, because when I used to sell Holstein bull calves through the ring, they sold by the pound.

Different barns do it different. The vast majority of the sale barns do sell by the pound, everything but breeding stock.

 

[730 virgil]

I know a guy that bought an Angus bull from a top breeder some years back. He got him home, and immediately turned him in the bull lot. The next morning the bull was standing at the fence behind the house with a broken pen*s. It was during cold weather, so it had also frozen and turned black. There were no cows anywhere close, so they have no idea what happened. Vet said nothing could be done for him, so Mr. Bull got back on the trailer and went to the stockyard. Was on the farm for less than 24 hrs.

i had a bull that ripped his scrotum open i was giving hay to cows and said to tall kid kid something doesn't with the bull.
i knelt down and took a closer look and saw he had blood all over his legs being a red bull it was first hard to to see what was happening..
the next day he became hamburger

 

[flying belgian]

a couple weeks ago i was chatting with man i know i asked him if he and his brother were still feeding cattle he said the last couple of thet sold brought them lots of money but we cant afford ta buy new ones back so lot will be empty for a while.

I can never understand if your going to be in the cattle business why you don't have to buy new ones right when you sell old ones. Don't it take a year and half to finish cattle? How can you predict price that far ahead? Just like the corn farmer don't you have to ride it up and ride it down?
You never see a corn farmer NOT plant his corn this year because input costs are more then present market. What am I missing here?

 

[TheBartman47]

Stony Ridge Farmer sells 17 head, actually making a profit this year...

 

[rrlund]

Stony Ridge Farmer sells 17 head, actually making a profit this year...

Fast forward to about 36 minutes.

 

[TheBartman47]

Stony Ridge farmer next prices what it cost to slaughter in case you didn't want to sell live at the auction:
NOTE: The AI generated graphic of cuts is obviously wrong, but that has nothing to do with the video content.

 

[trackrat]

My ole daddy always said that the cattle biz was a cycle, from boom to bust the times sure prove it

 

[Ray,IN]

Here in S. Indiana a regular cow with a calf by her side brings $3,000, or more if better quality. My days raising cattle are a memory now.
Humm, perhaps this is the day for vegetarians?