Update to Cattle Market Reports
Jeff You may just read the blog, but the real cattle guys use this site mainly for local auction barn reports.
Several years ago Texas decided to stop funding them and we haven't gotten around to finding a solution until now.
Weekly Averages
The average top and bottom classes for each class of feeder calves is calculated for the past week across the sales we have in the new system and it's posted on the right hand side of the state auction barn list...
Comparison to Other Sales
The new format for individual sale reports is quite a bit cleaner and includes a comparison of the prices at that individual auction barn to other sales held across the week before and after that sale...
More Coming Soon
You read this, you know how I works, more charts and tables and graphs than are necessary are coming once more data is collected..
I'm using Texas as a guinea pig and when we have the data collection working well for that state we'll move on to others.