Trinity Man

[Big Muddy rancher]

Did you ever ask at the sale yard why they weigh the cattle after the sale?

And why they don't just dollar them since the buyers are guessing weight when they buy?

 

[Anonymous]

Did you ever ask at the sale yard why they weigh the cattle after the sale?

I can remember it wasn't too many years back all the rings up here were that way...Run them in- sell them- then weigh them up after they went out... Made those buyers have to know what they were doing... :wink:

Now all the rings have the scale built right into the ring....Just have to make sure they have the count right when they bring them in....

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

I know it has been done but I never knew the reasoning behind it. When you watch a sale and the price changes on a 25 pound break you would think the buyers would error on the side of caution and pay less. Weighing before they know how many dollars they have to spend so easy to know what they can pay. I would think it would be better for the seller. That is who the auction should be working for..

 

[Trinity man]

The reason they sale by the lbs is that the cme (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) base the price by the lbs on the futures. So the buyers have to buy by the lb. It would take them to long to work it out by the head. Then the reason they wt the cattle last. The owner told me it keeps the buyer on their toes on est. the weight. Up at Emory Livestock Auction in Emory Texas they sale their bred cows by the lb to on their Tuesday sale. Mr. Forester (the Owner) said the sales get better money for their cattle, because ranchers have to be pretty good at est. their wt. I was up there once when a man paid around .90 lb for a cow that wt 1500 lbs. :shock: I ask the guy did he know what he paid for that cow. He looked at me and smile and said yes $1350. Their Saturday sale when all the weekend people are there they sale them by the head, because most of them don't know their own wt. :wink: