Blog Archive March 2017
Jeff 4H counties and FFA chapters with the most branded steers in Houston...
1. Wise County 4-H 9
2. Midland County 4-H 7
Montgomery FFA 7
4. Atascosa County 4-H 6
Marion FFA 6
Milam County 4-H 6
7. Brazos County 4-H 5
Krum FFA 5
Llano County 4-H 5
Prosper Ffa 5
Salado FFA 5
12. Borden County 4-H 4
Celina FFA 4
Flatonia Ffa~1 4
George West FFA 4
Hamilton FFA 4
Hood County 4-H 4
Idalou FFA 4
Johnson County 4-H 4
Lamb County 4-H 4
Mabank FFA 4
Roberts County 4-H 4
Scurry County 4-H 4
Top branding cities/towns for Houston 2017...
Cities & Towns with 5+ steers branded...
8 Steers
LubbockSeguin
7 Steers
MidlandMuleshoe
6 Steers
MiamiMontgomerySan AntonioTolar
5 Steers
FloresvilleFredericksburgHerefordLlano
It happens every time somebody hears that the grand champion steer at Houston brought in $300k+ and realizes the kids only get about $75,000 of it…
Why does Houston take away their money? They EARNED that.
No, they didn’t.
They earned the clearly set premium prices that Houston guarantees each year. The amount the grand champion steer will actually get at Houston is as straight forward and transparent as it can be. The only people who think steers “earn” more than that are people who haven’t actually read what Houston says.
The buyers aren’t even buying the champion steers and can't take them home if they wanted to. The champions and reserves are all headed off to this fun thing called a carcass contest.
It’s all charity. It’s merit based charity, for sure, but it’s complete charity on the part of the buyers. Well, that, and the opportunity to schmooze with other Houston big wigs at the buyer parties.
Where does the money go? Does it go to them “inner city kids”?
No.
The whole “inner city kids” thing is a myth that needs to be nipped in the bud.
It’s used to cover any differences between what the calf brings and the guaranteed premium. The money left over after that is divided up even between all of the steer exhibitors and checks for several thousand dollars a head are typically sent out in the fall.
Top individual sale lots of the past week...
- $210,000 - Cow sired by SydGen 928 Destination 5420
- $82,500 - Bred Heifer sired by Quaker Hill Rampage
- $70,000 - Pair sired by VAR Generation 2100
- $65,000 - Bred Cow sired by B/R Future Direction 4268
- $65,000 - Pregnancy sired by Basin Payweight
- $65,000 - Pregnancy sired by Quaker Hill Rampage
- $60,000 - Heifer sired by VAR Discovery 2240
- $45,000 - Pair sired by Rito 9Q13 of Rita 5F56 GHM
- $45,000 - Pair sired by Baldridge Waylon W34
- $45,000 - Pregnancy sired by EXAR Hi-Tech 4769B
Top individual sale lots of the past week...
- $45,000 - Heifer sired by W L E Legit B30
- $30,500 - Bull sired by LLSF Pays To Believe
- $19,501 - Heifer sired by Little Cedar Aviator
- $18,025 - Heifer sired by Free K-Kim Hot Commodity
- $15,500 - Heifer sired by CF Solution
- $13,000 - Heifer sired by SULL Red Knight 2030
- $12,750 - Bull sired by LLSF Pays To Believe
- $12,500 - Steer sired by Gup
- $12,500 - Heifer sired by Who Da Man
- $11,500 - Heifer sired by CF Solution
I didn’t really have a “my day” but my gosh you kids have it easy to learn how to take care of your animals.
Back in my day…
If you wanted to watch Stierwalt talk about clipping you had to pay $40+ for a DVD.
Surechamp wasn’t putting out educational viral livestock management videos.
We didn’t have Gevlinger live broadcasts on every detail of managing an animal.
No, we didn’t have any of that.
We did everything wrong and looked like idiots.
Just as God intended.
Top individual sale lots of the past week...
- $290,000 - Heifer sired by PVF INSIGHT 0129
- $82,000 - Heifer sired by S&R ROUNDTABLE J328
- $52,000 - Heifer sired by PVF INSIGHT 0129
- $40,000 - Heifer sired by PVF INSIGHT 0129
- $40,000 - Heifer sired by EXAR Blue Chip 1877B
- $36,000 - Heifer sired by S&R ROUNDTABLE J328
- $30,000 - Heifer sired by EXAR Classen 1422B
- $27,500 - Heifer sired by PVF INSIGHT 0129
- $27,000 - Heifer sired by BC II SKYFALL 2812
- $26,000 - Heifer sired by PVF INSIGHT 0129
I’m behind, this should have been posted last week. We’re moving this week and I’ve been busy spending money replacing what I can only assume is every damn thing in our entire house.
You can’t see the biggest dot on the map, Marion, because there are too many other dots in that area.
The “big dots” are…
9 Steers
Marion
5 Steers
Atascosa County
Hockley County
San Patricio County
4 Steers
San Antonio
Idalou
Prosper
Tahoka
The counties and chapters that branded three or more steers were…
Marion FFA - 9Atascosa County 4H - 5Hockley County 4H - 5San Patricio County 4H - 5Idalou FFA - 4Prosper FFA - 4Tahoka FFA - 4Borden County 4H - 3Dewitt County 4H - 3Falls City FFA - 3Guadalupe County 4H - 3Kendall County 4H - 3Krum FFA - 3Lubbock County 4H - 3Midland County 4H - 3Montgomery County 4H - 3Stratford FFA - 3
Top individual sale lots of the past week...
- $80,000 - Bull sired by 3F EPIC 4631
- $64,000 - Bull sired by SITZ INVESTMENT 660Z
- $59,000 - Bull sired by 3F EPIC 4631
- $50,000 - Bull sired by EXAR EZX 3772B
- $41,000 - Bull sired by Smokin Bob
- $35,000 - Bull sired by S&R ROUNDTABLE J328
- $27,000 - Bull sired by Milk Man
- $26,000 - Steer sired by Fu Man Chu
- $23,000 - Steer sired by Smokin Bob
- $21,000 - Bull sired by K C F BENNETT ABSOLUTE
Down across the board.
The average price of 282 steers sold online in February 2017 was $4,351, down from $5,096 in 2016. The 2017 average price was the lowest since 2013 when the average was $4,210.
The cut off for the top ten percent dropped from $11,250 in 2014 (the peak) to $8,425 in 2017.
The price cut off for the bottom ten percent of calves was $1,900 in 2016. It is $1,414 in 2017.
The median price was down $500 to $3,000.
Based on percentiles, at $10k calf in February of 2014 is a $7,500 calf in 2017.
A $5k calf in 2014 is a $4,250 calf in 2017.
*all of this originally said March
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