Sold Steers February 9, 2010

[RBT]

We sold our steers yesterday! A few photos before we shipped them out.

465 is college fund!

Another college fund is 510

Steers weighed ave 775# sold for $98.50.

 

[garn]

Wowsers, look at the mud!

 

[peacecountry]

where is the snow .its up past my knees here .calves look pretty darn good uniform bunch.

 

[per]

I have a pot load being sold tomorrow on the wire. I hope they do as well as yours.

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

Good looking steers.

What are the RFID buttons for?

per what wire? DLMS?

 

[per]

DLMS at 10:00

 

[Soapweed]

The steers looked good, weighed good, and sold very well. Can't beat a deal like that.

 

[Justin]

good looking set of steers.

 

[RBT]

Good looking steers.

What are the RFID buttons for?

per what wire? DLMS?

BMR, The RFID tags are for age and source verification. They cost $3.25 a head to put them in, but I think we got more than that back when we sold them. We had 2 guys bidding private treaty and both were interested because they were age and source verified. RBT

 

[RSL]

That's a nice group of calves...

 

[gcreekrch]

Nice set of steers. Good for you for source verifying. You might do a little shopping on your tags. The last we bought cost us $2.48 each.

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

Nice set of steers. Good for you for source verifying. You might do a little shopping on your tags. The last we bought cost us $2.48 each.

You might have beat the 40 cent increase. :?

 

[Cedarcreek]

Good looking steers.

What are the RFID buttons for?

per what wire? DLMS?

BMR, The RFID tags are for age and source verification. They cost $3.25 a head to put them in, but I think we got more than that back when we sold them. We had 2 guys bidding private treaty and both were interested because they were age and source verified. RBT

Are they IMI Global tags? Part of the cost of the tags is the paperwork that goes with them. I put them in my calves, gets more buyers to bid on them since they are age and source verified.

 

[RBT]

Thank you all for the compliments. Sometimes it's just nice to share the results of a year's work with others who are in the same business! Cedarcreek, we used Micro Beef for our RFID tags and yes, part of the cost was for advertising and paperwork. I don't like the extra work of putting them in and keeping track of the numbers. It meant one extra person around the chute when we pre-conditioned, but I think it was probably worth a couple extra dollars a hundred when we sold them. RBT