Blog Archive September 2016
Cattle.com Top individual sale lots of the past week...
- $33,605 - Bull sired by Monopoly
- $30,000 - Bull sired by Hi Ho Silver
- $28,500 - Steer sired by Man Among Boys
- $26,000 - Heifer sired by Here I Am
- $22,000 - Heifer sired by PZC TMAS Firestorm 1800 ET
- $19,500 - Steer sired by Man Among Boys
- $18,500 - Steer sired by Monopoly
- $18,000 - Steer sired by Here I Am
- $17,500 - Bull sired by Huff and Puff
- $17,000 - Heifer sired by Mr HOC Broker
Not surprising but it's a data point to keep in mind if you're ever in a tabulation room and the subject of whether to post results or wait and let people be surprised during the award ceremony comes up...
"Turn the pic upside down and you see a cowboy throwin a bite of food in his mouth"https://t.co/gYwGzv7z5I pic.twitter.com/1TphXVCeI1
— Matt Lautner (@mattlautner) September 21, 2016
When I was in high school I, along with everybody else from our 4-H district, wasn’t able to compete in 4-H livestock judging because our district held their contest the same date as the state FFA CDE’s in College Station. I’m fairly certain it was intentional because the leadership knew about the conflict but kept scheduling the event on the same date.
There was one year though when we were able to go to district. We were sitting around for three hours waiting on the award ceremony and starting to get bored. One of our team members, now a prominent realtor, claimed he found the results. I’m not sure where he got them but it took all of the anticipation out of the situation.
Fast forward twenty years to me deciding whether to wait around for awards for my own kids or go home. That anticipation and excitement are counterbalanced by my desire to get the kids home so I can get some peace.
That’s the long way of saying there are pros and cons to posting results online immediately and ruining the suspense as well as holding them back until the award ceremony.
While it’s in no way unique to livestock judging (I’m going to use the results of this for events that don’t have a thing to do with ag) it’s something that comes up each weekend at a judging contest between the time that the contest is done and the two hours it takes to straighten out your kid’s wrecked scantrons so they’ll scan.
If you don’t attend judging contests, no worries.
But if you do, which do you prefer?
216 steers sold online for an average price of $3,026 over the weekend. In 2015, during the same weekend, 121 steers sold online for an average price of $3,511.
The ten sales held over the weekend that also held a sale in September of 2015 had the following averages…
2015
113 Sold$3,747 Average
2016
186 Sold$3,105 Average (-17%)
Five most popular steer sires in sales held September 19-20th 2015
1. Monopoly2. Man Among Boys3. Believe in Me4. I-805. I-67
Five most popular steer sires in sales held September 17-18th 2016
1. Monopoly2. Man Among Boys3. Fu Man Chu4. I-805. Hi Ho SilverUnstoppable
Top individual sale lots of the past week...
- $41,000 - Steer sired by I-80
- $36,500 - Steer sired by 50G
- $27,000 - Heifer sired by One in the Chamber
- $24,000 - Heifer sired by Mr HOC Broker
- $23,000 - Heifer sired by Denali
- $22,000 - Steer sired by Heat Wave
- $20,000 - Steer sired by Monopoly
- $17,500 - Heifer sired by Fu Man Chu
- $17,500 - Steer sired by Fu Man Chu
- $17,500 - Steer sired by Monopoly
Top individual sale lots of the past week...
- $45,000 - Steer sired by Fu Man Chu
- $40,000 - Steer sired by Monopoly
- $28,550 - Steer sired by Man Among Boys
- $25,000 - Heifer sired by One in the Chamber
- $24,500 - Heifer sired by Irish Whiskey
- $20,250 - Bred Cow sired by JDH Sir Avery Manso
- $20,250 - Bred Cow sired by Mr. V8 442/6
- $20,250 - Bred Cow sired by Mr. V8 901/4
- $20,000 - Bred Cow sired by JDH Sir Avery Manso
- $20,000 - Heifer sired by Mr HOC Broker
I don't look at our keyword searches all that much any more
It's not because I don't dare. It's because Google hides 90% of the keyword info that sends users to sites now and it's basically useless.
That leaves a small portion of traffic that is actually analyzed and keyword stats are virtually useless at this point.
However, our latest 8th most popular term made me chuckle a bit, in part because we're like #6 or 7 for the term...
View count as of this morning.
#2 - 1,185 Views, SteerBidder
#3 - 906 Views, MLC
#4 - 833 Views, SteerBidder
#5 - 678 Views, SteerBidder
Top individual sale lots of the past week...
- $32,000 - Pregnancy sired by Quaker Hill Rampage 0A36
- $31,500 - Heifer sired by EXAR Combination 1750B
- $12,500 - cow sired by B/R Ambush 28
- $12,000 - Heifer sired by VAR Discovery 2240
- $10,500 - Bred Heifer sired by GAR Prophet
- $10,000 - Heifer sired by Baldridge Waylon W34
- $9,500 - Pregnancy sired by Quaker Hill Rampage 0A36
- $9,000 - Bred Heifer sired by EXAR Upshot 0562B
- $8,000 - Pregnancy sired by Quaker Hill Rampage 0A36
- $8,000 - Pregnancy sired by VAR Discovery 2240
Don't call them, they'll call you.
Don't know what I'm talking about? Over the past decade there have been no less than three different attempts at making a reality TV series or documentary about show steers.
Most Texas steer people know about them because they’ve filmed at several prominent shows over the years including Houston and the TJLA Camp Show. Unfortunately, they never got the go ahead to actually make it to at television screen.
It's not that ag isn't interesting.
They're not even afraid of doing a stock show based reality TV show/documentary.
It's just that chickens are apparently more interesting...
It's one of the first big name Angus bull sales of the fall sale season is and their sale is today. It ought to be a relatively good measure of what the impact of the crash in cattle prices will have on the bull market.
Their sale is the first week of September which put it solidly in the dip in 2015 but feeder cattle were still at $2.00/lb rather than the $1.70 they were four months later.
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