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Questions about feeder cattle

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Anonymous

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Doug Thorson said:
The weight has to fit their outcome, 700 now would be 850 in the spring where 400 now becomes 700 in the spring.

They get 300# insted of 150# and sell for top $ instead of what everyone has, the easiest thing to have is 550 in the fall and 850 in the spring.

Yep-- and around here we have several that buy those lighter weight calves- winter them- then throw them on grass at 600-700 lbers in the spring and then sell them as 900-1000+ weights in about September... As we have no feedlots in the area that feed to finish-most are shipped south to NB/KS/SD and the lots closer to the Packing plants....But when we get moisture at the right time- we have some of the most powerful grass in the world for putting pounds on calves/yearlings...

Some years- depending on the dollar difference between heifers/steers- some of the bigger outfits have run a lot of spayed heifers...
 

Northern Rancher

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The market is flying too high for my little old sky so I sold the few steers I had. Heifers are exactly thirty cents backof steers up here-I'll be buying some of them when it's springtime in the rockies.
 

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