Went to stockyard today and bought 3 heifers, 300 pound range, cost $1.35 to $1>42 per poumd. Of more interest to the group is that they sold by load, groups of preconditioned calves. 700 poumd steers brought $1.25 to $1.35 per pound, heifers about the same. Lighter calves brought slightly less. Calves going through the regular sale in the same weight range brought about the same. Advantage for the preconditioned sellers as I see it is that their calves were weighed as they came off the truck and didn't lose weight in the barn, waiting to be sold.
Big run in that barn, over 1000 head, plus goats and a few hogs. This is in SC.
KEH
