Posted by JD Seller on August 16, 2016 at 20:12:23 from (208.126.198.123):
We loaded and unloaded cattle today without a single problem. I should have canned the fellow months ago but I kept hoping he would shape up. Cousin already called me an cried a river because I fired her "baby". Well he is some else's problem now. I am done with him.
I got the settlement sheets form last week. It cost us $25 a head for the last two loads because they arrived after the scheduled window. So 86 x 25 = $2150 To make it even better the shrink on this last two loads was 1.5 point more too. So 86 x 1420 x 1.5 = 1831.8 x $1.39 = $2546.20 So the extra handling and trouble cost us around $4500.
The sorting and extra handling put those cattle under more stress. This will always cause you trouble. The incoming calves are still not up to where the others that came in are. They got hammered by the larger cattle. Larger and Strange too.
I have always tried to handle cattle as gently, quietly and quickly when possible. So when you have troubles it just snowballs. This time of the year with heat and humidity does not help things either. Finding calves you can even PRAY to make anything on right now is hard.
There are few things showing profitability on the farm right now. Farm income is going to be really down for a while now.
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