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If you are solvent enough to hang on all you need is time with cows or heifers. Steers are another story, only one way for them to go.

They make me sweat. I just can't see where there is any room in these prices for any kind of unanticipated risk.

Someone is much more confident in the future of prices than i am.

The sale I went to yesterday had a bunch of solid black first calf heifer pairs, February calves, and they were going up to $3600

I went to the sale today. Kill cows were up to $1.38. I only saw 2 cows bring less than $1.25. A jersey and a crippled beef cow which...

Please don’t pick from that lot Murray. Surely there are better bulls than those in your price range.

Most of those "bulls" are Angus/Salers cross. Those pedigrees are from the Simmental database. (Simmental association allows recording...

No? I'm old as hell and I understand it.

There isn't a bull there that I'd be bidding on. They're all weak in the top line and gutty and leggy and lightly muscled. Not a beef...

I can say consistently mixed, we had 3 periods of 6 calves of the same sex but no more than that.

I really have no idea Jan, it was just mentioned by someone "smarter" than I. His name is Waldo and he is a laid back friendly fella...

Did you have alot of bull calves first, and then more heifers? Or the opposite? Or was it consistently mixed?

Calving season come to an end with a single heifer, so we have had 121 calves for 118 cows, 6 pairs, 3 lost. Birthweight average is...