Bred Heifers

[Anonymous]

Yesterday I attended the first bred heifer sale of the area- at Glasgow Livestock...
Prices were all over the board from some being pounded out at around $900-- to the tops selling at $1500...

A long time customer who brings in nice commercial bred heifers yearly had two lots-- one that were AI bred to Hinman Angus HA Program 5652
- and weighed around 920 that brought $1400... The second lot that was the same except bull bred to sons of In Focus brought $1500...(after the sale I talked to one of the ladies that bought most the bull bred ones and she said she went for them because of the In Focus bloodlines in the calves they were carrying- and that she had had good experience calving In Focus calves before)..

A good looking bunch of 50 head that weighed around 900 lbs brought from $1000 to $1100... Their low price came because the owner had no idea how they were bred as the neighbors bulls (Char, red angus, Sim, Sim-angus X) all had gotten in with the heifers for some time before it was discovered...

The best buy of the sale was a small bunch (5) of a little smaller framed heifers that weighed 850- bred to LBW angus bulls to calve March 25-May 20 that sold for $1035...

I see Miles City sold some 860 lb. black bred heifers on Tuesday for $1250...They also had a few 3/4 year old bred cows bring $1050-1100---and some old short termers bring $900...

Many folks are still thinking tho that these heifers could easily be worth $2000 come about Feb- if we have a little moisture this winter...

 

[Aaron]

A year ago we all thought heifers would go crazy this time around. Drought changed that. I was reading forecasts from Iowa for $2500 heifers this fall. But no doubt when the drought ends, prices will go sky high to match calves that are now going for over $1000. If not, it would be a good time to expand if feasible.

 

[Cedarcreek]

The shortage of feed will hold things down for a while. Its hard to pay 200$ a ton for hay and make those high price heifers work. My open heifers brought more than some of the bred ones. I took home a check for just over $ 1240 a head for my opens a couple of weeks ago.

 

[Anonymous]

The shortage of feed will hold things down for a while. Its hard to pay 200$ a ton for hay and make those high price heifers work. My open heifers brought more than some of the bred ones. I took home a check for just over $ 1240 a head for my opens a couple of weeks ago.

Yeah I think you're right- after they get fed thru the major part of winter they will look a lot better to folks... Lots of folks in the seats- and some local interest-- but no interest at all from the normal out of state buyers...

I heard that a guy should have been at that farm auction in Frazer last week I heard that the year old hay sold for $35 bale which they thought figured out at about $55 a Ton...
I didn't go because I knew most of the equipment was really old and mostly pieces of junk... And apparently everyone else thought that way too as they said there was hardly any buyers there...

 

[gcreekrch]

Neighbor here decided to give his ranch back to the bank.

Sold his hay on Ritchie Bros. yesterday. We were interested in it for an insurance policy if it was reasonable. Guess I should have stayed in the house instead of looking for cows. 540, 1400+ lb bales of this year's hay sold for less than $20 average. :x :roll:

 

[Anonymous]

Neighbor here decided to give his ranch back to the bank.

Sold his hay on Ritchie Bros. yesterday. We were interested in it for an insurance policy if it was reasonable. Guess I should have stayed in the house instead of looking for cows. 540, 1400+ lb bales of this year's hay sold for less than $20 average. :x :roll:

Yeah-- I was talking with a Canadian from just north of me yesterday after the sale-- and he said there is still lots of hay left north of the border...