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: Today I bought some lightweight beef roping
: calves. They definitely will be more of a
: challenge for me and my horse and will have
: to be replaced sooner that I replaced my
: dairy calves.I have some winter wheat for
: now and some coastal in the Spring.
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: I didn't pay 500 for any jersey calves but I
: bought some day old to week old calves at
: the sale in stephansville for 200-210. black
: jersies were going for 300 plus..i bid on
: one jersey till the bidding approached 285
: and quit..the guy on the other side of the
: ring raised his one more time and bought it
: for 285. He was visiably angry..lol
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: Unfortunately you bought at the top of an
: unrealistic historically high bubble and
: sold after the bubble burst. The market is
: in the process of correcting itself and
: prices should creep back up a little and
: should be pretty steady this year. Good
: news is they will be quite a bit cheaper
: when you buy and feed costs should go down.
: It will be a while before prices get back to
: what they were last summer.
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: they aren't 500.00 now...I saw some
: adverstized for 300.00 the other day....
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: The beef moneymakers I bought in December
: have grown too big and now have a AAA speed
: rating. I'd like to buy some dairy or dairy
: cross calves but but can't stand the
: disparity between buying and selling.I
: bought 6 head of jerseys last summer at $510
: each. One immediately died and another was
: semi-dead until I sold him for $90. That was
: a hit to the pocketbook. The other 4 I roped
: until they couldn't fit into the roping
: chute. I turned them out for awhile then
: sold them. They weighed +-300 lbs when I
: sold them Here's the good part they brought
: an average of $375 each.I'm still hurting
: over that.I bet my beef calves do better
: than the $550 I paid for them.If not I may
: just quit roping, start standing on the
: corner downtown and hand out $100 bills. I
: hope everybody is enjoying this beautiful
: weather.
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