cattle prices

[76aggie]

My fish ole lady is a cattle rancher. He told me the best way to make a million dollars in the cattle business is to sell two million dollars worth of cattle.

[Rack Ranch]

What time did you start hitting the bottle today bro? 2 freakin funny

My fish ole lady is a cattle rancher. He told me the best way to make a million dollars in the cattle business is to sell two million dollars worth of cattle.

[ReydonPete]

My fish ole lady is a cattle rancher. He told me the best way to make a million dollars in the cattle business is to sell two million dollars worth of cattle.

Lol....
Probably correct, that is funny

[Randy]

They are going to be cheap if we don't get any rain.

And then some.

Hay is going to be in high demand again. Corn crops are failing. Looks like another expensive winter.

[SmTx]

They must be going up. 3 cows and two calves were stolen off family land last week.

[denimdeerslayer]

here in North East Texas if we do not get an inch or two of rain in the next couple of weeks the prices are about to get real cheap.

-john

But they never seem to be cheap when you are trying to buy some.

[aggie2000tx]

We sold a few in Crockett a couple of weeks ago and I was not very happy. Sold some older cow/calf pairs and they only brought $800 for the pair. They funny thing about it we sold another cow that had not bred back in 2 years and she brought $800 by herself. Sometimes it makes no sense what goes on at a cattle sale. One thing for sure hay is going to climb in price if we don’t get some more rain

[TX_Hoghunter]

But they never seem to be cheap when you are trying to buy some.

Yep you end up forced to sell them for half price and then to build back up after the drought you have to pay double...but everyone wants to be a cowboy....LOL.

-john

[Rack Ranch]

I do better selling them separate...

We sold a few in Crockett a couple of weeks ago and I was not very happy. Sold some older cow/calf pairs and they only brought $800 for the pair. They funny thing about it we sold another cow that had not bred back in 2 years and she brought $800 by herself. Sometimes it makes no sense what goes on at a cattle sale. One thing for sure hay is going to climb in price if we don’t get some more rain

[GA Bowhunter]

So your 200-300 lb steers were going from $1.57-$2.00/lb

Thanks!


Y'all need some of our rain. We are 10" above normal year to date rainfall. We had 18 straight days of rain to close out May. It's killing the home building business. We had 10 straight dry days to start June and folks around here have just cut hay for the second time this year. Started raining again yesterday.

[Tbone3636]

Are dairy steers sold normally at the same price? Just at the low end of the current range I’m assuming?


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[aggie2000tx]

Are dairy steers sold normally at the same price? Just at the low end of the current range I’m assuming?


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Dairy steers are always going to be less than beef steers

[Bumpy]

We sold a few in Crockett a couple of weeks ago and I was not very happy. Sold some older cow/calf pairs and they only brought $800 for the pair. They funny thing about it we sold another cow that had not bred back in 2 years and she brought $800 by herself. Sometimes it makes no sense what goes on at a cattle sale. One thing for sure hay is going to climb in price if we don’t get some more rain

You need to split your pairs. Also you're selling short/solid cows which will sell by the pound.

[Bumpy]

We brought several BRED cows that palpated and wanted them sold as stocker cows.
Yeah, they went for packer cows. A bred 1200# cow went for about $700. prices are low. Its no wonder i couldn’t sell our herd on our own. Apparently we are too high for bred cows and heifers that will palpate out even though our cows look 100 times better than what runs through the auction

What was age, breed, and bred to?

[Bumpy]

Went to the Livingston auction today. Don’t think I saw a pair sell for under a thousand bucks. A lot went for higher and some were older Mona’s. I was really surprised. Saw some tigers I wanted but to rich for what I wanted to spend.