Blog Archive June 2015
Cattle.com Top individual sale lots of the past week...
- $9,000 - Cow sired by Godfather
- $7,750 - Bred Cow sired by Handy Dandy
- $4,000 - Bred Cow sired by Sun Seeker
- $275 - Embryo sired by Johnny Football
- $250 - Embryo sired by Man Among Boys
- $250 - Embryo sired by Johnny Football
- $225 - Semen sired by Monopoly
- $225 - Semen sired by Monopoly
- $205 - Sexed Semen sired by TR PZC Mr Assertion 924 ET
- $100 - Semen sired by Man Among Boys
Market swine from San Antonio with video based reasons and officials...
One new class a week, every Monday.
Top individual sale lots of the past week...
- $3,200 - Steer sired by Solid Gold
- $2,500 - Steer sired by Monopoly
- $2,100 - Steer sired by Outlaw
- $2,000 - Steer sired by Heat Wave
- $1,800 - Steer sired by Monopoly
- $1,700 - Steer sired by Solid Gold
- $1,700 - Steer sired by Heat Wave
- $1,700 - Steer sired by Monopoly
- $1,700 - Steer sired by Monopoly
- $1,700 - Steer sired by Monopoly
Looking at the numbers for the Cream of the Crop sale isn’t so much an evaluation of a sale as much as it is an evaluation of club calf producing cows in general. There are 300+ bred heifers sold every year there targeted at both slick shear and haired markets.
The prices of bred heifers were up another $400/head over last year, which was up $300/head over the previous year.
Are the prices of bred heifers at a sale like that outpacing the prices of the steers they’re meant to produce?
Not really.
Yeah the prices keep going up When controlled for the prices of show steers, using the yearly average of steers sold online, the prices have actually been down the past two years.
The following chart displays the average price of bred heifers sold at the COTC sale (2,200 head) divided by the average price of steers sold online that year (18,000 head)…
Market steers from San Antonio with video based reasons and officials...
One new class a week, every Monday.
Top individual sale lots of the past week...
- $38,000 - Bred Heifer sired by Man Among Boys
- $32,000 - Bull sired by J10
- $25,000 - Bred Heifer sired by True Grit
- $23,000 - Bred Heifer sired by Bojo
- $23,000 - Bred Heifer sired by Troubadour
- $21,000 - Bred Cow sired by Milk Man
- $19,000 - Bred Cow sired by Paddy Omalley
- $18,000 - Bred Heifer sired by Monopoly
- $18,000 - Bred Heifer sired by Texas Twister
- $17,500 - Bred Heifer sired by Picante
Going back to 2005, the earliest year the results are on Judgingcard...
1. 587 - Brady Ragland - Floyd Co. 2008*2. 586 - Mollie Lastovica - Gillespie Co. 2010*3. 585 - Austin Langemeir - Guadalupe Co. 2011*4. 584 - Segayle Foster - Floyd Co. 20085. 583 - Emily Jackson - McLennan Co. 2009*583 - Everleigh Hayes - Calhoun Co. 20087. 581 - Taylor Haliburton - McLennan Co. 20108. 580 - Kylie Patterson - Guadalupe Co. 2015*580 - Brittany Blum - Grayson Co. 2010580 - Mollie Lastovica - Gillespie Co. 2008580 - Topher Dalton - Lubbock Co. 200812. 578 - Dottie Cook - Runnels Co. 2009578 - Barrett Carlisle - Hockley Co. 2009578 - Cody Trimble - Knox Co. 200815. 577 - Taylor Walker - Guadalupe Co. 2011577 - Emily Jackson - McLennan Co. 2010577 - Mason Long - Sterling Co. 201018. 576 - Landon Eldridge - Burleson Co. 2014 *576 - Luke Johnston - Ellis Co. 2010576 - Trey Geiger - Atascosa Co. 2008576 - Senee Foster - Floyd Co. 2008
* - High point for the year
Because of the way averages work, only 36% of the steers sold in online sales sell for more than the sale average.
The percentage of steers sold that beat the sale average for the 12 bulls with 20 or more steers sold this spring...
- Dakota Gold 59.3%
- Walks Alone 45.2%
- Monopoly 42.0%
- Smokin Bob 41.4%
- Man Among Boys 41.3%
- Solid Gold 40.8%
- Heat Wave 40.0%
- Believe in Me 39.0%
- Pump Daddy 35.0%
- I-80 34.8%
- Unstoppable 34.8%
- Deadliest Catch 23.8%
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We have a record of 174 online steer sales between January 1st and June 1st of this year.
There were 196 highest selling steers in those sales because there were sales with multiple calves 'tied' for top selling steer.
Those calves were sold as being out of 84 different bulls.
The bulls that sired 3 or more calves that were the top selling steer in a sale this spring were...
1. Man Among Boys - 342. Monopoly - 193. Solid Gold - 174. Smokin Bob - 85. Heat Wave - 66. Walks Alone - 57. Believe in Me - 48. Dakota Gold - 3Deadliest Catch - 3Gold Dust - 3Rumble - 3Troubadour - 3Yellow Jacket - 3
Top individual sale lots of the past week...
- $17,500 - Heifer sired by Solid Gold
- $17,500 - Bull sired by Italian Stallion
- $12,000 - Heifer sired by Tombstone
- $11,000 - Bred heifer sired by Thriller
- $11,000 - Bull sired by Monopoly 4
- $10,000 - Heifer sired by All Me
- $9,500 - Heifer sired by Flying B Cut Above
- $9,000 - Heifer sired by Italian Stallion
- $7,750 - Heifer sired by Pump Daddy
- $7,500 - Heifer sired by Heat Wave
You missed three weeks for major stock shows alone.
Forget Meerkat.
Let it be decreed that Periscope shall be the official live broadcaster of steer, heifer, pig, goat, and lamb show champion drives.
What is Periscope?
It’s a live broadcasting app that works with your Twitter account. Twitter is that thing you would have been on for about five years now if you could ever stop dragging your knuckles through the dirt long enough to figure out what a smart phone is.
With Periscope, all you have to do with your phone is click a button and you’re live broadcasting to all of your Twitter followers. No need to send out an announcement telling people when to watch, it just throws it up on your Twitter feed immediately.
When they finally got an Android app going, I tried it out at my kid’s soccer match (@cattledotcom) and it was 10 seconds later that somebody I knew was watching.
Surechamp (@surechamp) is broadcasting off and on from the WPX this week.
How is it going to be useful for you?
When you’re watching a drive at a show, pull out your phone and broadcast it.
Want a live broadcast of your sale without absolutely no setup requirement? Bam, you've got it.
More importantly, you’ll be able to watch when other people do the same.
The increase in prices is still on the bottom 50% of calves this year...
| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | % Change | |
| Average | $3,215 | $3,265 | $3,131 | $4,010 | $3,959 | $4,146 | +5% |
| Count | 335 | 690 | 1,171 | 1,413 | 1,411 | 1,614 | +14% |
| Median | $1,900 | $2,250 | $2,250 | $2,800 | $2,875 | $3,001 | +4% |
| Total | $1,077,075 | $2,253,104 | $3,666,502 | $5,666,144 | $5,585,932 | $6,691,211 | +20% |
| Percentiles | |||||||
| 95th | $10,100 | $8,362 | $8,500 | $10,000 | $10,000 | $10,000 | -- |
| 90th | $6,350 | $6,250 | $6,245 | $7,705 | $7,500 | $7,500 | -- |
| 80th | $3,760 | $4,250 | $4,000 | $5,250 | $5,000 | $5,250 | +5% |
| 70th | $3,100 | $3,250 | $3,250 | $4,250 | $4,000 | $4,250 | +6% |
| 60th | $2,200 | $2,600 | $2,700 | $3,500 | $3,258 | $3,500 | +7% |
| 50th | $1,900 | $2,250 | $2,250 | $2,800 | $2,875 | $3,001 | +4% |
| 40th | $1,550 | $1,800 | $1,800 | $2,460 | $2,500 | $2,750 | +10% |
| 30th | $1,400 | $1,500 | $1,550 | $2,000 | $2,250 | $2,400 | +7% |
| 20th | $1,100 | $1,250 | $1,300 | $1,700 | $1,900 | $2,000 | +5% |
| 10th | $1,000 | $1,000 | $1,200 | $1,500 | $1,600 | $1,900 | +19% |
This is just plain old sloppy work on a picture that is supposed to be for an AI bull...
Let's just ignore the ethics side of things for a moment. Did that really improve the animal? Did it make a difference in the picture? Meh, I don't think so.
That's just a photographer saying he's out of GAS (give a ****) and doesn't care anymore.
If you get your pictures back and they're edited like that, just send them to the photographer to try again.
You're paying those guys to make your bulls look good and by gosh you deserve better Photoshopping than that.
Meh, they're exactly what you’d expect.
- Genetics
- Feeding
- Pumping
After about 200 responses (there were 231 total), a kind stranger pointed out to me that I should have put fitting as a fourth option if I hoped to find out anything the slightest bit interesting.
The total results...
| Rank | Genetics | Feeding | Pumping |
| 1st | 78.8% | 15.6% | 5.6% |
| 2nd | 7.8% | 57.0% | 7.8% |
| 3rd | 5.6% | 6.7% | 57.0% |
Was there a difference between Midwestern and Texan people?
Not a ton.
Texas respondents (41)…
- Genetics – 85.4
- Feeding – 9.8
- Pumping – 4.9
Midwestern respondents (141)…
- Genetics – 78.2%
- Feeding – 16.3%
- Pumping 5.4%
No real difference once you take the margin of error into account.
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