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well if you were lookin to buy some cheap bulls today, Harrison MT was NOT the place to be. looks like $3500-$4000 would have bought you a few of the "scrubs". :wink: comm. bred hfrs started out at $2250 :shock: with probably around a $1900 ave. from what i was able to watch, Superior went off air before they were done selling.
 
I watched part of it- but just after Jake quit selling and Joe took over- I fell asleep and missed the rest of the sale... :shock: :wink: :lol:

Thats what I get for going out and helping a neighbor haul his lighter weight cutback steer calves to the stockyards at the crack of dawn in a heavy freezing fog...
He didn't do too bad for "cutbacks"-- they weighed 592 and brought $123.50.... :D
 
Oldtimer said:
I watched part of it- but just after Jake quit selling and Joe took over- I fell asleep and missed the rest of the sale... :shock: :wink: :lol: Thats what I get for going out and helping a neighbor haul his lighter weight cutback steer calves to the stockyards at the crack of dawn in a heavy freezing fog...
He didn't do too bad for "cutbacks"-- they weighed 592 and brought $123.50.... :D
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really?? i could sleep through Jake sellin, but not Joe. :)
 
Justin said:
well if you were lookin to buy some cheap bulls today, Harrison MT was NOT the place to be. looks like $3500-$4000 would have bought you a few of the "scrubs". :wink: comm. bred hfrs started out at $2250 :shock: with probably around a $1900 ave. from what i was able to watch, Superior went off air before they were done selling.
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So I'm guessing you bought as many bred heifers as we did :D .
 
:agree:

Not denying anyone their success in the sales department. I think I could put together a deal that would provide a lot better return on investment. More power to 'em.
 
Northern Rancher said:
I'm sure open to the algebra that shows how $2200 commercial heifers are going to work!
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if you took those same heifers, put someone elses name on them, run them through any sale barn in the country they'll probably bring $1200-$1400. the Sitz's have developed quite a reputation in the cattle world so i say more power to them. :tiphat: i'm bettin any of us would trade places with them, at least on sale day. :wink:


with that said, paying 2250 for comm. heifers doesn't make sense to me either. :)
 
I got an e-mail from an angus outfit the other day that said they had a bull customer in Nevada that was looking for 1500 bred cows- and wanted to know if anyone could help him...That customer was hoping to find a volume sale and get them for $1000 a piece..
My thoughts were that the way cows and heifers have been selling- unless the winter gets really tough- or the south droughts out bad- and hay awful short- its going to be tough to find much of a bred cow for $1000- unless they get a trader put together bunch of short termers....
 
The sad part is as more and more ranchers "retire" and get bought out by investors, I can't see the price of good seedstock doing anything but surging upward. I guess that is only sad if you are looking to buy a bull without breaking the budget. I imagine it's great news to the folks who raise them.
 
Oldtimer said:
I got an e-mail from an angus outfit the other day that said they had a bull customer in Nevada that was looking for 1500 bred cows- and wanted to know if anyone could help him...That customer was hoping to find a volume sale and get them for $1000 a piece..
My thoughts were that the way cows and heifers have been selling- unless the winter gets really tough- or the south droughts out bad- and hay awful short- its going to be tough to find much of a bred cow for $1000- unless they get a trader put together bunch of short termers....
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i agree with you. he may be able to throw a few heifers together at $1000, but at the sales lately, even that would be tough. like you said, for $1000/hd. his best bet is short termers. might as well bump up the spending money to $1200-1300/hd and buy fewer cows. IMO
 

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