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Originally Posted by oldandslow
HFC --
Sold 10 700 lb holstein steers last week for 2.08 per hundred.
For those of you out of the know, that's 1,400 dollars for a steer that's a little over half way ready for the butcher...
The market is crazy right now. It's the reason I went ahead and sold them.
Pigs are going to get that way, but I think that is due to the virus that is killing 35% of the newborns.
I am not big farm. But now is the time to be a farm producer, imo. I am looking forward to the farmer's market season.
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I thought about buying some cows and try to get in on this feeder price, but CHRIST. If you don't have them, there is no way to get in profitably.
In other news I talked to a cow calf guy, and asked him if he was retaining heifers. His response? "Every one of them." Dude has big steel balls. I'd have probably let them go. Run one more year with the old bitches and try to retain some when price goes back down some.
I guess that's why I'm not a cowboy.