I watched Northern Livestock Video on Tuesday and it seemed to me like all the calves brought from $900-$950/head regardless of weight, which makes the lighter calves worth more per lb. and the heavy calves worth less.
One of our customers sold their steer calves. They brought $175.50 @ 540# ($947.00) Those are mostly April calves and they are selling 93 head out of 115. They were 1/4 Black Simm and 3/4 Angus.
I watched some black calves sell from Glasgow, Mt and they were in at 565# and sold for $170.50 ($960). I don't know whose calves they were, but I was impressed with the cows. They sold 158 head of steer calves. ($960)
Some 525# steer calves from Absarokee, Mt sold for $168.75 The description said NO TAGS, whatever that means.
225 steer calves south of Malta were in at 550# and they brought $172.50 ($948.)
Some lighter calves that weighed 475, 130 head of steers, brought $1.89.
They were located east of Jordan, Mt. ($897.)
Ross Ranch at Jordan are (or were) long time Angus seedstock breeders. Their steer calves were in at 525 (April and May calves) and they brought
$1.8575 ($975.) They were selling 535 steer calves.
Another set from up around Jordan--210 steer calves, 495#@$1.8475
($914.)
One set from Colstrip, Mt. weighed 475# and brought $193.50 ($919) These calves were all born in 30 days from start to finish.
I really meant to watch the heavy calves sell on Wednesday, but Wednesday morning got really hectic around here so I missed it. I would imagine they would post a market report from that sale soon. It was on tv on Dish Network, but nothing on Direct TV, so I watched it online.
Their next sale is Aug. 19-20.
Pretty good ticket on all of them. I didn't write down what the heifer mates brought. One set of black heifers that was announced the owners kept none back and the calves would make replacement heifers brought only $1 less per pound than the steers.
Hope this helps!