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Top individual sale lots of the past week...
- $2,200 - Embryo sired by Business Done Right
- $1,750 - Embryo sired by Generator
- $1,500 - Embryo sired by Good Business 419
- $1,400 - Embryo sired by Sugar Bear
- $1,350 - Embryo sired by Business Done Right
- $1,200 - Embryo sired by The General
- $1,200 - Embryo sired by The General
- $1,150 - Embryo sired by Business Done Right
- $1,000 - Embryo sired by In God We Trust
- $1,000 - Embryo sired by Solid Gold
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Top individual sale lots of the past week...
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- $3,500 - Embryo sired by Silveiras Style
- $2,000 - Embryo sired by Colburns Primo
- $1,300 - Embryo sired by W/C Executive Order or CNS Dream On
- $1,200 - Embryo sired by Fu Man Chu
- $1,150 - Embryo sired by Maternal Made or I-80
- $950 - Embryo sired by W/C Relentless
- $850 - Embryo sired by TLLC One Eyed Jack
- $800 - Embryo sired by Silveiras Style
- $800 - Embryo sired by Mr HOC Broker
I've added a display of the average price of 600-700 lb feeder steers in the five regions of Texas to the market reports for that state...
You know how every year a calf will get loose at a show and run through a crowd of people but miraculously never actually run into somebody?
It’s mainly because people hear the yelling and get out the way but largely because most show steers, even the stupid ones, don’t actually want to run through people, they just want to get free. There was even an episode of Myth Busters where they put a bull in a china shop and he didn’t hit anything.
Have you ever wondered what would happen if one of those calves just blew up somebody with well below average hearing that was looking the other direction?
It hurts.
The calf that got me was evidently going fast enough that he sprained my ankles from the collision before I ended up face first in the dirt.
Here’s a six-year-old artists rendition of it…
What was that thing in the middle of the ring for several classes in Seguin this past weekend?
It was filming this...
If you’re on your phone right now, pull up that video in the Youtube App (NOT just a normal browser) and move your phone around you. The video will show whatever was in the direction you are pointing the camera.
If you had a VR head set, it would show the video as if you are standing in the middle of the ring.
Top individual sale lots of the past week...
- $6,500 - Bred Heifer sired by PZC TMAS Firestorm 1800 ET
- $4,750 - Flush sired by Doctor Who
- $4,000 - Pregnancy sired by In God We Trust
- $3,750 - Pregnancy sired by Troubadour
- $3,250 - Pregnancy sired by Made Right
- $3,250 - Pregnancy sired by Man Among Boys
- $950 - Embryo sired by Monopoly
- $700 - Embryo sired by Troubadour
- $650 - Embryo sired by Monopoly
- $550 - Embryo sired by Gethca Some
I've added a chart to the Texas cattle prices that displays the weekly range of 600-700 lb feeder steers across the state of Texas...
Top individual sale lots of the past week...
- $6,000 - Bred Heifer sired by My Kind
- $5,750 - Bred Cow sired by Troubadour
- $5,500 - Bred Heifer sired by White Jazz
- $5,000 - Bred Cow sired by Gold Rush
- $5,000 - Bred Cow sired by Troubadour
- $5,000 - Bred Cow sired by Headliner
- $4,750 - Bred Cow sired by King Charles
- $4,700 - Bred Cow sired by Milk Man
- $4,500 - Bred Cow sired by Carpe Diem
- $3,750 - Cow sired by Ali 2
...unless you raise show steers that have as much ribeye as round steak.
That was shared 51 times when I posted this Thursday morning. I predict that will be shared 200 times by the time it's done on Facebook because it's the kind of thing that makes ag people feel good about themselves.
The problem is it isn't true.
That's not how cutout works. If it were then your feeder calves would be selling for something in the $4/lb range if not higher.
Don't share that stuff.
Your auction is doomed anyway if you have to lie to your buyers about what they are getting.
Want to know the actual value of a cutout carcass? There's a well established tool for that...
