gcreekrch
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Ma and I will be gone to Town for today and tommorow. See you Saturday. 
Hope you all can get along without me. :wink:
Hope you all can get along without me. :wink:
Gone for a couple days.
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Soapweed
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gcreekrch said:Ma and I will be gone to Town for today and tommorow. See you Saturday.
Hope you all can get along without me. :wink:
Heck, we can't even get along with you here. Have a great trip.
Justin
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we'll try, no promises, but we'll try :? :wink: have a good trip
Blkbuckaroo
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Have a good time whoopin' it up!! 8) .
WyomingRancher
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Be sure and take Mrs.Gcreek out for a really nice dinner... she deserves it for putting up with you 
:lol: . Have a good trip to town, but hurry back!
:lol: . Have a good trip to town, but hurry back!leanin' H
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QUICK! Somebody call Bella Coola and warn them Gcreek is headed their way for a big blowout! :shock: This could be worse than a whole gang of drovers fresh off the trail hitting Dodge city! Enjoy yourself pal! :wink:
Enjoy yourself pal! :wink:gcreekrch
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We made it back last night. Uneventful trip. Sold/gave away the cull cows and bulls.
For those of you in the States that would like to compare prices and costs of doing business here goes.....
We sold 32 cows of various ages and 2 old bulls
2 bulls weighed 1738 @ .3575 or $621.15 per hd.
24 cows lean but not shipwrecks by any means ave. 1120 lbs and sold for .2325 or $260.01 per hd.
5 cows ave 1345 @ .2425 or $326.16 per hd.
1 empty 2 yr. old 1035 @ .2550 or $263.93
1 thin young cow that a local bought to fatten for his freezer weighed 980 @ .2450 or $240.10
1 thin 3 yr old that a buyer stole for .9 or $72.45 for the whole cow. If we had been there when they sold this cow would have come home been fed out and gone into someone's freezer, she was perfectly healthy. :x
Commision on 34 hd $ 674.80
Trucking $1087.80
Varios and sundry including Brand Inspection $172.68
We netted $7755.01 or $228.09 per hd. on the whole bunch. :???:
For those of you in the States that would like to compare prices and costs of doing business here goes.....
We sold 32 cows of various ages and 2 old bulls
2 bulls weighed 1738 @ .3575 or $621.15 per hd.
24 cows lean but not shipwrecks by any means ave. 1120 lbs and sold for .2325 or $260.01 per hd.
5 cows ave 1345 @ .2425 or $326.16 per hd.
1 empty 2 yr. old 1035 @ .2550 or $263.93
1 thin young cow that a local bought to fatten for his freezer weighed 980 @ .2450 or $240.10
1 thin 3 yr old that a buyer stole for .9 or $72.45 for the whole cow. If we had been there when they sold this cow would have come home been fed out and gone into someone's freezer, she was perfectly healthy. :x
Commision on 34 hd $ 674.80
Trucking $1087.80
Varios and sundry including Brand Inspection $172.68
We netted $7755.01 or $228.09 per hd. on the whole bunch. :???:
Nicky
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Well that just sucks!!! Sorry buddy :x Hope you at least took the Mrs out for a nice dinner.
per
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Boy Gcreek, I hope you didn't take the Mrs. to too expensive of a place. I took a liner load of culls to the market this week and was lamenting the prices and thought I was adhering to my "buy high sell low" philosophy but you topped (or bottomed) me by a $100/head. That bites. It must be a fair hike to the auction house for a $1000 ride on top of it.
Yeah that is bad we sold 4 butcher cows about 6 weeks ago 1225# average 42 cents and 2 bulls weighing 1800# average for 52 cents
Cows were $514.50 and the bulls were $936.00 for a total of $3930.00 minus $1 a head check off and $1 a head tb fee for a total of $12 in deductions. These were droped off at Long Prairie Packing Co which is 35 miles from here.I hauled them myself They were loaded up at 9 am and droped off at 10 am and I was back to the bank by 11:30
Cows were $514.50 and the bulls were $936.00 for a total of $3930.00 minus $1 a head check off and $1 a head tb fee for a total of $12 in deductions. These were droped off at Long Prairie Packing Co which is 35 miles from here.I hauled them myself They were loaded up at 9 am and droped off at 10 am and I was back to the bank by 11:30
gcreekrch
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per said:
There were 12 head of neighbors cattle on the liner to "cheapen" the freight.
It is 350 kms from home to the yards and another nickle a lb. to get cattle to High River from Williams Lake.
Then the order buyers have to build in their little profit. :roll:
Justin
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at least they are not eating your feed anymore
gcreekrch
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Justin said:
Too true.
We would likely have kept these cattle until February and gambled on a higher market if we had the extra hay to feed them. Last year we could have bought hay and made in excess of $100.00 a cow if we had held the culls until early spring but that doesn't mean it will happen twice.
Lots of times the first loss is the best one. :wink:
McGee213288
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:shock: :shock: 
Dang!!..And I was raisen cain bout ours..sold at Hubbard, TX, on Monday..
Sold 2 Fat Cows 8 mo bred, with knots on thier heads & broke mouth
1245# for .40
1195# for .34
3 Heifers
515# for .80
435# for .82
580# for .80
3 Steers
435# for .87
510# for .93
615# for .82
Total of 8 head 5530# for $3,500.00...Deds of $149.50 for a net of $3,350.53 :roll:
I hauled em' $70.00 for my time...
Our Cowboy had sold 5 the Friday before..and they brought close to what we netted...Auction house said it was time for another dump of Dairy Cows...and sence it is subsidized by the Government the packers were taking full advantage.... :evil:
We were to work cows this week end but decided to back up and punt... :roll:
Dang!!..And I was raisen cain bout ours..sold at Hubbard, TX, on Monday..
Sold 2 Fat Cows 8 mo bred, with knots on thier heads & broke mouth
1245# for .40
1195# for .34
3 Heifers
515# for .80
435# for .82
580# for .80
3 Steers
435# for .87
510# for .93
615# for .82
Total of 8 head 5530# for $3,500.00...Deds of $149.50 for a net of $3,350.53 :roll:
I hauled em' $70.00 for my time...
Our Cowboy had sold 5 the Friday before..and they brought close to what we netted...Auction house said it was time for another dump of Dairy Cows...and sence it is subsidized by the Government the packers were taking full advantage.... :evil:
We were to work cows this week end but decided to back up and punt... :roll:
burnt
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I shipped an open cow in July and she brought $.59 for a total of $850. Far cry from what she would have brought this fall.
Grassfarmer
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Ouch Gcreekrch, I feel for you. We have had a big cull this fall - lots of teenagers just finally had to go. They have mostly been in the 23-28 cent range with a few of the best younger cows 32-34 cents. I think we are averaging about $380 after deductions to date but ours were packing a bit more weight. We are closer to auction too (12 miles )
Absolute robbery because if you just grind them and sell them at local store price there is probably $1300 in them.
It goes to show what happens when there is no competition in the marketplace - Nillsons should never have been allowed to buy the Lakeside plant and effectively replace two main cow buyers with one.
Good reason too why they must not be allowed to buy the Cargill plant at High River - we cannot have 90% of the kill capacity belonging to one company.
)Absolute robbery because if you just grind them and sell them at local store price there is probably $1300 in them.
It goes to show what happens when there is no competition in the marketplace - Nillsons should never have been allowed to buy the Lakeside plant and effectively replace two main cow buyers with one.
Good reason too why they must not be allowed to buy the Cargill plant at High River - we cannot have 90% of the kill capacity belonging to one company.
Justin
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i've been watching a couple sales this evening on cattleusa.com, and it is depressing, even when they are someone elses cattle 
its a buyers market....good, young bred cows selling for what short-termers where just a few years back. and if you are going to have some extra grass next summer, i would be looking into buying some of these 400-500 lb calves.
its a buyers market....good, young bred cows selling for what short-termers where just a few years back. and if you are going to have some extra grass next summer, i would be looking into buying some of these 400-500 lb calves.gcreekrch
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We'll save the freight and keep our own again. :wink:
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Utility & Commercial Cutter & Canner Cows $37.00-$45.75 Top $50.00
Cutter & Canner Cows $30.00-$37.00
Young Feeding & Turnout Cows $40.00-$63.00
Bulls $45.00-$50.75
Sales on calves have been awfully slow here too...Mainly because so many in feeding country still have corn to harvest- and mudded in/flooded feedlots..... I saw some fairly nice bunches of 600lb weights selling thru the ring on Thursday for about $92-- and many of the 5 weights not getting to $1.00.... The 600 plus ones were well below $90...One of the normal big buyers for this area out of eastern SD is still hardly buying anything because he says no one is ready for the calves yet in his area...Any blotch or touch of missing ear was good for a huge discount...Seats full of those that are always looking to buy the $50- $75 specials....Sale was weaker than last weak-- But during the time I was there- I saw nothing of the quality that sold last week...
This weeks big Angus Special will tell the tale- because it will clean out the majority of the calves in this area that aren't being held til next spring...
The optomistic side---Seemed like some strength in good replacement type heifers- mostly being bought by locals looking to run them next year and breed them- possibly speculating on the resale price for the future shortage of cattle... The commercial heifers I sold last week brought only $3 less than the steers which was a pleasant surprise (because they have been $6-$10 back all year)- going to a local for that very reason of planning to run heifers and breed them..
Cutter & Canner Cows $30.00-$37.00
Young Feeding & Turnout Cows $40.00-$63.00
Bulls $45.00-$50.75
Sales on calves have been awfully slow here too...Mainly because so many in feeding country still have corn to harvest- and mudded in/flooded feedlots..... I saw some fairly nice bunches of 600lb weights selling thru the ring on Thursday for about $92-- and many of the 5 weights not getting to $1.00.... The 600 plus ones were well below $90...One of the normal big buyers for this area out of eastern SD is still hardly buying anything because he says no one is ready for the calves yet in his area...Any blotch or touch of missing ear was good for a huge discount...Seats full of those that are always looking to buy the $50- $75 specials....Sale was weaker than last weak-- But during the time I was there- I saw nothing of the quality that sold last week...
This weeks big Angus Special will tell the tale- because it will clean out the majority of the calves in this area that aren't being held til next spring...
The optomistic side---Seemed like some strength in good replacement type heifers- mostly being bought by locals looking to run them next year and breed them- possibly speculating on the resale price for the future shortage of cattle... The commercial heifers I sold last week brought only $3 less than the steers which was a pleasant surprise (because they have been $6-$10 back all year)- going to a local for that very reason of planning to run heifers and breed them..
