October 27, 2011

[Soapweed]

A poppin' good set of black heifer calves just left the ring.

Eighty-eight head weighed 595 pounds average.....

And they brought a whopping $1100 per head. 105 head of their younger lighter sisters weighed 532 pounds
and brought $1000 per head. The cattle were very impressive, and so was the amount for which they sold.
Quality pays.

The very competent cattleman who raised the heifers, along with his cute grandson.

The great sale barn crew that makes it happen.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch......

Another day has drawn to a close.

We sold 100 black steers today, weighing 624 pounds each at $154 per cwt ($961 per head),
8 red steers weighing 657 pounds at $148 per cwt ($973 per head)
7 red steers weighing 534 pounds at $163.50 per cwt ($872 per head)
6 red heifers weighing 629 pounds at $147.50 per cwt ($928 per head)
1 red heifer weighing 495 pounds at $145 per cwt ($717.75)

It was a good day.

 

[tenbach79]

Congrats on your sale. I am struggling with keeping my hiefers this year or sell them and buy some young cows back. Hard to pass up 900-1000 bucks a head.

 

[LazyWP]

Looks to me like you should have had all red cattle yesterday. Sounds like you did a good job of marketing again. Lisa said if was an extremely hot sale.

 

[4Diamond]

Glad to see the red cattle get their due

 

[Justin]

congrats on another good sale Soap.

 

[Anonymous]

Took my 3 year old Granddaughter to the local sale yesterday- and after a 1/2 hour the auctioneers chant had her asleep in the chair... I told them she was just practicing to be a "buyer"... :wink:
I think they were all sleeping yesterday as the prices were no where near what they are paying down Soaps way- saw very few bunches that came close to $900...

 

[R A]

Sounds like a great day! Ended on a sure pretty note also!