Been hauling hay home. Got stuck a couple times. Trucks don’t like soft ground much
My brother was watching the sale on the interweb & said he tried to get my cousin to by a few cow/calf pairs for $3k each but he didn’t buy them.
Since the price of fats has been decent lately more people are fattening heifers and not bringing as many in as replacements leading to fewer calves being born and ultimately a tighter supply.
Ok, that makes more sense. I was thinking beef, not breeding genetics. I am waiting on the bottom to drop out before replenishing my beef supply. Buy low right? Good luck with cattle gentlemen.
If you were closer I’d happily let you raid my freezers. Right now I’m grossing $1.60ish/lb live weight which after a bunch of fancy math equates to just shy of $5/lb for the actual meat you put in the freezer. That is for everything though …. Hamburger, steak, roasts, ribs and the whole works. We used to sell hamburger for $3/lb but have bumped up to $4/lb and no one has grumbled so far. People still come get 15-20 live animals a year to either butcher themselves or take somewhere and pay me what I’d get paid if I haul them to market.
I have been paying $3/lb hanging weight, plus kill bill, and about $.65/lb packaging. Kill bill has been about $125. Been over a year since I put one up. Only 2 of us here, and we netted 444 pounds packaged. Will continue to buy from local farmers, and would take you up on your freezer raid were i closer too.
Little dust on wheat
Spot on. There ain't enough feeder calves to go around. We just sold our steers and was well pleased with the price.
We sold 14 on Monday and I would have never believed the price. $2.55 to $3.05, steers and heifers. Moved some to my parents to keep for future butcher and dad is looking at going through and culling them because of the prices.
