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    Auction Barns around Brenham TX

    You can't judge a market off of one visit. You catch a day when one or two buyers are missing in action (sickness, funeral, vacation, etc) and you go home disappointed. You let someone new come in and everyone takes aim at them making that new buyer "buy his chair", you leave thinking that is...
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    Auction Barns around Brenham TX

    Brute, you have lots of options in that area. All of these are within 55 miles of Brenham. Monday - Giddings Tuesday - 4 County Livestock at Industry, Bryan Livestock Commission Wednesday - Columbus, Caldwell Thursday - Mid-Tex Livestock in Anderson Friday - Brenham Saturday - Navasota...
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    After weaning

    Most of the pre-condition sales are wanting 45 to 60 days weaned.
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    Headed to the sale barn

    Kenny, OP is in southwest Missouri. I bet they are selling at Joplin. Sale starts at 6 am tomorrow.
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    Lightweights bust thru 4 bucks!

    This week's sale at Crockett. https://easttexaslivestock.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Market-Report-2-20-24-Feb-20-2024-8-49%E2%80%AFPM-1.pdf
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    Lightweights bust thru 4 bucks!

    This past Tuesday at Emory TX
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    Sell or Hold'em

    I don't see it getting much higher. We have got beef about as high as consumer can stand. Scroll down to look at current projections and close outs. https://cattlereport.agcenter.com/
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    Bad advice?

    Jan. 2024 feeder futures closed yesterday at $215.30, the March 2024 feeder futures closed at $216.07
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    Calf prices

    Bird dog, was that at Groesbeck or West?
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    How they mark bred cows differs

    Brute got yo get east of I-45.
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    How they mark bred cows differs

    Here in East Texas, most barns put age right behind the shoulder - H for heifers, 1 - 7, SS or 0. Pregnancy is on the hip. They use the numbers for their best guess of how many months bred.
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    Simple Math

    Groups of 8 or more will bring more than singles. Order buyers get paid on commission (usually so much per cwt.) . The more lbs that fir the order, the more they make. Lucky, look at the NETBIO sale in Sulphur Springs. Those cattle consistently bring more.than singles. Part is that they are...
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    When will drought culling drop cattle prices?

    CB, those are October numbers. Nacogdoches and New Summerfield are both running abnormally higher numbers. All 3 barns are getting some western Louisiana cattle. Amite, LA sale barn(east of Baton Rouge) had 2100 Tuesday (1100 of that was cows).
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    Jackpot palpates?

    Since we sell nearly everything as singles, those jackpot pens will have multiple consignors' cattle in them. If a producer has enough animals that will sort up, they may be sorted off and grouped. Buying bred cows is like looking for the prize in a box of CrackerJacks.
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    Sale barns

    As I said, we sell them mostly one at a time. Most barns do not have enough small pens to seperate consignor's cattle before the sale.The average herd size here is 31 head.
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    Sale barns

    Most of the sales here sell the calves one at a time. We don't need a big ring.
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    Market reports

    Calf market was spotty here in East Texas. Better end still sold well. Lots of fat, bawling, juicy new crop calves. Order buyers were put on head limits Thursday and Friday. Many shut down for the 4th of July Friday and one company said they would crank back up on July 10. Said the customers...
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    Black vs Red

    Brute, that is not apples to apples. Steer vs bull is $5 to $8 per cwt. discount to the bulls (more in August to October time period). 1/4 & 1/8 blood calves vs 3/8 to 1/2 bloods is another $5 to $6 per cwt. discount.
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    New batch

    I can see you are a "man of vision" as Captain Call said. Taking a mix of #1's and 1 1/2's that will all be #1's when ready to go to the feedyard at 800 to 900 lbs. Good job of putting the together.
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    Slaughter bulls and cows

    We import lean trimmings because we do not produce enough lean trimmings in this country. The percentage of Choice and Prime cattle is up over 80%. See https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/ams_2700.pdf. This is the result of selecting for increased IMF in all breeds. Go to and read the section...
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