Rod come on... you did realize and admit the costs came down to a profit of maybe $93 on those 2 specific cows.
1 question we never got into is what happens to the beef, cows that don't yield up to the average?
By defininition, average is the middle some do better some do worse.
Your 2 young cows could quite concievably been in the top end of profit makers. That doesn't set the average.
Cows are far more variable in price than steers or feeder heifers. Profit margins we have discussed here are for fed cattle. Agman hasn't weighed in on cow profits. He has explained how many cows fewer the States has had to kill and that is the major reason for the high cull prices, not the closed Canadian border.
Greg, I understand I sound abrasive when replying to conman, but he trys to influence newer posters posing as some kind of expert. He quickly exposed himself as a fraud and I can't help but rub it in. If you were to go back you will find he gets what he gives.
Look back at my exchanges with Randy. I don't agree with many of his ideas, but I can respect what he is trying to do with Celtic beef, and I told him that in a thread about the quality of some of his fats.