Posted by JD Seller on January 20, 2013 at 10:26:18 from (208.126.196.144):
A guy sold over 200 short breed cows. They where all good Angus cows. Many where younger cows. He averaged $1200 across the board. I thought he did okay for the market. HE was crying a river about how he lost money. How he could have feed the heifers out for beef and made more money. I quess he does not have to feed $7 corn or $200 a ton hay. LOL
Here is some of his mistakes:
1) Selling cows that will start to calve in Feb. in Iowa was just dumb. His reason was; guys would want the first calf heifers to calve early so they would have more time to breed back. The real deal was who would want to have to calve all of them inside this early in the cold.
2) It is too far from spring grass for many guys to have the feed for the extra cattle. Those cows could very well eat two tons of hay between now and good pasture. With even common hay bringing $200-250 per ton that would have you with another $400-500 to the cost of the cow/calf.
Another fellow is having a breed cattle sale Mar. 26th. I think he will do much better. Really better if we have good rains between now and then.
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