Cheap cattle

rrlund · Jan 7, 2017

That's the advantage to computer record keeping I guess. I was wondering when was the last time I sold fat cattle as cheap as I'm selling them now. I started going back through the years,and back,and back....
2011 was the last time they were this cheap. On the bright side,gas and diesel are cheaper now,at least for a little while. Seed corn was a whole bunch cheaper back then.

centash · Jan 7, 2017

Go back to when the border was closed due to the BSE scare, 10 or 12 years ago....good heavy cull cows were 50 bucks, springing dairy heifers with pedigree were 400. If you shipped some d4 cattle, you got a bill...Ben

tomstractorsandtoys · Jan 7, 2017

I sold fats this week for $120-122.50. That is up from a few weeks ago. Tom

rrlund · Jan 7, 2017

I got 1.03-1.04.

Brown Swiss · Jan 7, 2017

So it took 4 years to get back to the cattle prices we had before the drought of 2012. Seems if memory serves me wasn't fertilizer prices like 1000 a ton or close to it?

SmokeEater2 · Jan 7, 2017

Hogs are going dirt cheap around here as well as cattle. I haven't paid any attention to actual market prices on them but it seems like a lot of guys are trying to sell some off locally and they must not be getting many takers the way the price keeps slowly dropping.

I always buy a couple in the spring to fatten and butcher and if these prices hold, It's going to be the cheapest pork I've ever made.

Tough times for producers again.

rrlund · Jan 7, 2017

Looks like in 11,I paid 580 a ton for triple 19. $420 a ton for 28%.
By 2012,triple 19 was 690.

NEKS · Jan 7, 2017

Think that BSE scare started right here in my home town. What I heard was a cow come in that had sores in her mouth from eating timothy hay. Vet didn't know what caused them so the sale barn called the state health inspectors. They pull up in front of the sale barn while the sale is going on get out of the car, go to the trunk and get out their white suits and put them on so all can see them. Rumors got started and it was bad news from then on.

Bruce from Can. · Jan 7, 2017

2004 I sold cull dairy cows for .06 per lb.

Philip d · Jan 7, 2017

Yup her too I remember getting $75 for cull cows in good shape

4520BW · Jan 7, 2017

Wish I could find some cheap feeder calves. Around D here 500pounders are $140+. Got bins full of corn and a barn full of hay.

SmokeEater2 · Jan 7, 2017

(quoted from post at 16:59:19 01/07/17) Wish I could find some cheap feeder calves. Around D here 500pounders are $140+. Got bins full of corn and a barn full of hay.

That's an easy one, Just wait until I buy some. Generally the price drops like a rock the week after.

504 · Jan 7, 2017

The experts are calling for them to be down another 6% this year.

Dick · Jan 7, 2017

Cattle prices might be down but the meat prices in the store sure ain't. Hamburger $5.00/lb. and up..

casecollectorsc · Jan 7, 2017

85% lean....$2.88#...E SD.

LAA · Jan 8, 2017

What program do you use, cattlesoft?

Brown Swiss · Jan 8, 2017

I had to look it up, it was way back in 2007 urea prices hit over 800 a ton. Guess I wasn't thinking it was that long ago.

rrlund · Jan 8, 2017

Cattleloss.

rdandersom · Jan 8, 2017

My son and I were at the salebarn at Talbotville about the same time. Like most auction barns there is special seating for order buyers on the front row. Cull cows weren't bringing much then a skinny cow comes in and there is no bid no matter how hard the auctioneer tried. On this day Bob Lethbridge the owner was in the box so he asks his clerk what trucking is owed by the farmer on shipping the cow to the sale. Bob assigned the cow to one of the order buyers for the trucking owed. About 10 minutes later the same thing happens and Bob assigned the cow to the next buyer in the row. This happened 3 times that I saw before we left to see the sheep sell. My grandfather told me a story of a buyer coming to the farm to buy cows for Canada Packers in Toronto during the depression. They settled on a price for a cull holstein then moved on to another cow. The buyer said she wasn't worth anymore than her transport but since the truck was coming anyway she could ride along for free. The buyer would not move so the cow was given away.

Traditional Farmer · Jan 8, 2017

I traded 5 hogs for about $500 worth of Oak Firewood,glad I did.

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