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At the Mobridge Livestock Auction yesterday

BRG

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Yesterday I was at Mobridge Livestock as we had several customers sell. Once I remembered to, I took a couple photos.

The market was stronger yesterday and the barn was full of buyers. It was nice to see.

This load of steers weighed 649 lbs and they got $103/cwt


This guy had a half a load and a neighbor had a half a load of the same type, so they weighed them and sold them together to form 1 load. They weighed 592lbs and they got $105.75/cwt


Once again, the buyers were really after the 6 weight or higher calves. The demand wasn't there for the calves that were under 550 lbs, as lots of 520 lbs calves were in the $105 to 107/cwt range.
 

Denny

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Not much of a demand for lighter calves? Kinda goes agaist what ole Kit Pharo preaches :wink:

Our market is quite soft here I'll hang onto my for a month yet hope they go up in price and weight. Most likely will be sending them to Aberdeen or someplace west.
 

BRG

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By the board, the 5 weights just don't work like the heavier ones do, plus the farmer feeders tell me they aren't ready. It has done nothing but rain the last 3 weeks and the silage is still standing, the corn is to wet, and the lots are muddy. Once they dry out, I think the lighter ones will pick up.
 

BRG

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Denny said:
Not much of a demand for lighter calves? Kinda goes agaist what ole Kit Pharo preaches :wink:

Our market is quite soft here I'll hang onto my for a month yet hope they go up in price and weight. Most likely will be sending them to Aberdeen or someplace west.

Do you go to Aberdeen Livestock or Hub City. Hub City does a good job. I would call either Steve or Glenn and visit with them. Good guys in my book, especially Glenn.
 

wdcook

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Denny said:
Not much of a demand for lighter calves? Kinda goes agaist what ole Kit Pharo preaches :wink:

Our market is quite soft here I'll hang onto my for a month yet hope they go up in price and weight. Most likely will be sending them to Aberdeen or someplace west.

Nobody in their right mind would advocate selling light calves this time of year unless the wheat guys in OK or TXS are after them.

Pharo doesn't even recomment weaning till after year end on late spring/summer born calves. Many times in late winter or early spring I have seen 5 wt clvs bring almost as many total dollars as high 6 or 7 wt calves.
 

Denny

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wdcook said:
Denny said:
Not much of a demand for lighter calves? Kinda goes agaist what ole Kit Pharo preaches :wink:

Our market is quite soft here I'll hang onto my for a month yet hope they go up in price and weight. Most likely will be sending them to Aberdeen or someplace west.

Nobody in their right mind would advocate selling light calves this time of year unless the wheat guys in OK or TXS are after them.

Pharo doesn't even recomment weaning till after year end on late spring/summer born calves. Many times in late winter or early spring I have seen 5 wt clvs bring almost as many total dollars as high 6 or 7 wt calves.[/quote

Well they should you have as much into them. Nurseing calves all winter can be done but here in the land of milk and honey it's going to cost you some money if you want to keep them growing and the cows in reasonable condition.I'd like to see Kit winter cows in Northern Minnesota by spring he'd have a bunch of starved dead cows and most likely in jail from the do-gooders turning him in to the humane society.I've seen it done here and it won't be tolerated by the general public.I've been to Colorado in January it can be brutal and quite nice here it's just brutal.January there is like november here a big differance.

Funny thing about experts there's one on every corner.
 

Justin

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BRG said:
By the board, the 5 weights just don't work like the heavier ones do, plus the farmer feeders tell me they aren't ready. It has done nothing but rain the last 3 weeks and the silage is still standing, the corn is to wet, and the lots are muddy. Once they dry out, I think the lighter ones will pick up.

i agree 100%. there is alot of field work to be done in alot of areas. hopefully once the farming is done, things will pick up a bit.
 

Northern Rancher

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We winter our late calves out on the cows with no troubles-bale graze and lick snow plus whateverr milk they get-we don't lose any more calves than when we pen weaned-they grow through their hides out on grass the next year.I think I treated one on deaths door last winter because the door opened the next day for him-and we had a late bloat. Presorted calves are the big deal-we quite often have 2500 a sale at our local barn. It usually takes a day or so to weighh and grade the calves as they are brought in-we have three sorting alleys and two of us sex and sort the calves before they go to the scale-that's two or three people per alley. Once weighed the calves go on feed and water till they hit the ring. It usually takes two hours to sell over 2,000 calves-lots of pens are in triaxle loads-the buyers seem to like the concept because the yard is usually one of the higher ones around-the head sorters do a good job-I'm not working there this year don't think my chemo line would handle a wreck too good.
 

Denny

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Denny said:
wdcook said:
Denny said:
Not much of a demand for lighter calves? Kinda goes agaist what ole Kit Pharo preaches :wink:

Our market is quite soft here I'll hang onto my for a month yet hope they go up in price and weight. Most likely will be sending them to Aberdeen or someplace west.

Nobody in their right mind would advocate selling light calves this time of year unless the wheat guys in OK or TXS are after them.

Pharo doesn't even recomment weaning till after year end on late spring/summer born calves. Many times in late winter or early spring I have seen 5 wt clvs bring almost as many total dollars as high 6 or 7 wt calves.[/quote

Well they should you have as much into them. Nurseing calves all winter can be done but here in the land of milk and honey it's going to cost you some money if you want to keep them growing and the cows in reasonable condition.I'd like to see Kit winter cows in Northern Minnesota by spring he'd have a bunch of starved dead cows and most likely in jail from the do-gooders turning him in to the humane society.I've seen it done here and it won't be tolerated by the general public.I've been to Colorado in January it can be brutal and quite nice here it's just brutal.January there is like november here a big differance.

Funny thing about experts there's one on every corner.


Thanks for the Email Kit Glad it bothered you.

You Must be a Looky Loo as you call everyone else. I'd ask why you don't join up but my guess if someone is'nt paying you for your opinion you'll hide in the shadows...
 
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