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Are there any alternatives to the traditional sliders and dropgates for squeeze chutes. I want to put a scale behind my squeeze chute and don't like the drop gates because they have a foot gap under them that the cow in waiting has to see if she can shove her head under and a slider would be...

George, 7% sounds like highway robbery to me. If you sold an $800 feeder calf your commission would be $56? That sounds very high. Seems most barns range in the $12-$18 range of calves and maybe up to $20 on cows.

You just aren't a part of the groupies there, so they likely are only taking your obvious bids. They don't want you bidding up the cronies there and making them pay more. For all the crowds that gather at sells, I'd be willing to bet 5% or less are bidding and writing checks at the end of the...

Good silage requires good packing which is very dependent on length of cut. Not sure you will be able to get corn chopped up fine enough with a flail chopper to pack well in a bunker. Let us know how it works, I'm always learning. We're going to wrap it completely in plastic and pack it with...