At Marysville KS sale barn last week. In. Sane.
Some ranchers near Valentine sold their 1000 head of cows at $4000 per and rented the ranch out.

This week Amish neighbor sent a week old Holstein Angus cross. $1350.

Who is it paying that?

No idea. Someone very optimistic about the beef future.

Beef prices are crazy right now lowest cow herd in years,people are selling instead of keeping replacement heifers going to get worse iam afraid.

Yet at our little hometown locker you can buy a strip for $11 or a t-bone for $15.

Cows are alot of work. Alot of producers are plowing up pastures and growing rowcrops. Take the winters off. Except this winter theyve been able to apply anhydrous and disc all winter.

The strike at JBS in Colorado isn't going to help either.
6,000 less head getting slaughtered every day they are out. G.

Saw some baby calves go for $10 a pound 2 weeks ago, middle Tennessee

Thatll be some pricey burgers

Market leverage. They will get the fat cattle killed when they are ready, they are just using that to get the prices down where they want them.

I bet those $6000 pairs probably had $2500 calves at their side and probably 100 days bred. I dont really think the cow market is just completely out of line compared to where the calf and feeder market is. Just a little sobering when you have to right the check to buy them.

Like everything else, sell at your price, and some people like the government or arm candy women, just spend like there's no tomorrow!

Alot of hay land has been put to canola and wheat in the past decade around here. Cows are a lot of work, my dad got out of cattle when I was in high school.

I sold my 22 head of Beefers 2 years ago now.

Paid off my farm.

And now I gotta sell it

Same here, I took my Amish neighbor a few weeks ago e. His calves (Guernsey cross) were a week or two old just enough to be frisky and getting around good. His average was $1325.

At our local sale barn, Monday sale beef x calfs were $24/ lb. Another sale today.

Anyone watch Sonne Farms on Utube ? There in South Dakota. A cow calf type operation plus feeding to almost finished cattle. The father sure seems like he knows what he's doing. I used to feed cattle all the way to finished weight. Brought them in at 5 to 6 hundred pounds and pour the feed to them. Made decent money but nothing like now. And yess, it was work but it was honest work.

Buying another farm shortly (unless seller flakes). Wr have enough land for 55 cows now, just growing our numbers

I bought Porterhouse steaks last week on sale for $6.79 a pound. Paid $8.99 for New York strips yesterday.

2 years ago a load of 350 pound calves cost us around $80,000. We got 4 loads in last week that cost $240,000 a load. It’s not a good situation. I saw breed heifers bring $5200 a couple weeks ago