Just came back from the auction mart today.
What a miserable place that was! We sold a bunch of steers a couple of weeks ago, and weren't too happy that we just broke even after a winter's work, but if we'd waited until today we'd have lost about $60.00 a piece on them. :shock: :shock: Times that by 250 and it's pretty painful. We didn't know it at the time, but we dodged yet another bullet.
We've got the feed mill practically begging us to put more steers through this summer, but can't find a darn thing to feed that will make a return, even feeding screening pellets. Start feeding barley and forget about it! Contracts are non existent, so there is no safety net at all.
They are worried at the feed mill that they won't have any business at all this summer, and the truckers tell us they're hardly working now. Hogs sure aren't going to bail them out either.
With the price of cull cows up now, breds are going to slaughter more than ever. It used to be that by April, bred cow sales were all done for the year, but they are still going on every week around here.
That's my gloom and doom report for the week. :? I'm hoping that the turnaround, which is bound to happen because it always does, comes soon enough for us to keep a cattle industry going in this country. It will be really interesting to see what's still around in the fall. Could be a real shortage of feeders? We can hope such a thing might help prices.
OK Randy, bring us some good news please.

We could use some for a change. :!: