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I finally got a couple of days to check out some sales...Things going to hell in a handbasket fast...Calves that were selling for $800-$850- up to $900 on tops during border closure times are now selling for $600- $650- didn't depend much on the weight- same price...
Didn't matter if they had the fancy tags and birthdates- or just an affidavit- all the same price...As one fella said that had gone thru the problem, time, and expense of tagging his calves, "last time I do that"....Like he said the stress of headgating them during preconditioning, chance of them getting injured, extra time, and labor costs along with the tags was worthless...Just another line of BS being sold us by the USDA/NCBA/Packers....
Comment I heard most often was that if we have that much of an oversupply of cattle that the packers are cutting back on slaughter- why are we still importing :???: And even with this more parred up money and supposed more open trade rules with Canada- not a Canuck buyer anywhere to be seen- or a person that has seen one at all again this year- and these were sales within 60 and 100 miles of the Border... Sounds like it is still all southbound trade only that Canada wants... Some FAIR trade :???:
Naturally I had to make a comment about having to donate another $100 to R-CALF- which was immediatley followed by a couple of folks saying "$100 hell - I'll donate $1000 if they can get this border shut down again".... And I don't think NCBA is gaining any members by their undying support of USDA, which has kept us from opening any export markets for this glut of beef to go to... What is it Mike John said "we don't want to compete with them..." :roll: :???:
Didn't matter if they had the fancy tags and birthdates- or just an affidavit- all the same price...As one fella said that had gone thru the problem, time, and expense of tagging his calves, "last time I do that"....Like he said the stress of headgating them during preconditioning, chance of them getting injured, extra time, and labor costs along with the tags was worthless...Just another line of BS being sold us by the USDA/NCBA/Packers....
Comment I heard most often was that if we have that much of an oversupply of cattle that the packers are cutting back on slaughter- why are we still importing :???: And even with this more parred up money and supposed more open trade rules with Canada- not a Canuck buyer anywhere to be seen- or a person that has seen one at all again this year- and these were sales within 60 and 100 miles of the Border... Sounds like it is still all southbound trade only that Canada wants... Some FAIR trade :???:
Naturally I had to make a comment about having to donate another $100 to R-CALF- which was immediatley followed by a couple of folks saying "$100 hell - I'll donate $1000 if they can get this border shut down again".... And I don't think NCBA is gaining any members by their undying support of USDA, which has kept us from opening any export markets for this glut of beef to go to... What is it Mike John said "we don't want to compete with them..." :roll: :???: