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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2019 13:01:10 GMT -6
Loading out this coming Wednesday. I'm pretty happy with the job a lot of the second calvers have done. Hopefully they are bred back in time.   |
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Post by randy on Oct 13, 2019 13:29:26 GMT -6
Cattle look to have done a good job with the calve Silver. Sure hope they sell good for you.
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Post by bulltrader on Oct 14, 2019 6:09:04 GMT -6
Did you sell them on the farm or are they going to the stockyard? If so how far do you have to truck then.
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Post by franklinridgefarms on Oct 14, 2019 7:07:23 GMT -6
Good looking calves hope they do well at the sale.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2019 9:27:28 GMT -6
Did you sell them on the farm or are they going to the stockyard? If so how far do you have to truck then. This year we are going to try something different. A buyer who does a lot of buying at many of the auction yards is receiving cattle at his place and paying what the type are worth on the market that day. He's a fair guy, so I have hopes that it will turn out well. If the price is the same as the sale barn and I save $8K in commission I will call it a win. The trucking trip will be about 3 hours one way. |
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Post by Allenw on Oct 14, 2019 19:03:27 GMT -6
Good luck with the buyer, a you have good looking cattle so they should do well.
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Post by bulltrader on Oct 14, 2019 19:59:49 GMT -6
Did you sell them on the farm or are they going to the stockyard? If so how far do you have to truck then. This year we are going to try something different. A buyer who does a lot of buying at many of the auction yards is receiving cattle at his place and paying what the type are worth on the market that day. He's a fair guy, so I have hopes that it will turn out well. If the price is the same as the sale barn and I save $8K in commission I will call it a win. The trucking trip will be about 3 hours one way. Things are so different here. I can think of 14 stockyards within a 3 hour drive. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2019 20:50:39 GMT -6
Well it ended up going fairly well for the year. He sorted the steer calves into two pens, the larger pen averaging 713 lbs and the smaller pen average 591 lbs. $2.08 / lb for the heavies, 2.10 for the little guys (Canadian dollars.... so about $1.59 USD) The good part was the heavy pen had about 3.5 times as many calves in it as the lighter pen. Very fair to deal with, I believe I may go the same route next year. The one pic I took, kinda showing a pen of steers during sorting at home:  |
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Post by talltimber on Oct 19, 2019 5:12:34 GMT -6
They look good, congratulations
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Post by randy on Oct 20, 2019 6:02:45 GMT -6
They done well Silver. No commission and no 2 dollar a head checkoff?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2019 9:24:41 GMT -6
They done well Silver. No commission and no 2 dollar a head checkoff? No commission, but you can't avoid checkoff and brand inspection. Checkoff for us is $5.00 per head. |
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Post by randy on Oct 21, 2019 13:32:50 GMT -6
Ours is only 2 dollars, i do hope yours is used better than ours is.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2019 18:17:06 GMT -6
Ours is only 2 dollars, i do hope yours is used better than ours is. I don't believe it is. $2.50 of ours is federal, $2.50 provincial. We can apply to get back the provincial portion, and I may do that this year in protest. |
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