Coach, I go there about once a month, and that's how it goes, like I said it does. Of course you have to take into account people who are not buying for feedlots, but are just people who want a calve to raise or eat or for a pasture ornament, and might think a choice or select calf looks better than a prime calf. To them, anyway. And there are a LOT of people selling calves that just
think their calves were as good or better than a black calf that brings more. These posts I have been reading the last few days puzzle me. 100's of posts or threads I think they are called, going back for years, of people bitching about the premiums paid on black cattle. You would think that after 40 years of the certified angus programs, and 40 years of seeing the premiums paid, or just the 40 years of buying meat at a store, that most people would know this by now. If some one is selling a red or other color calf that doe snpt bring what a like-quality black calf is bringing that they would raise some black calves! Even if they have an obsession with another breed, they can still have them, just buy a black bull. Anyone getting " "discounted" for a red Hereford calf, has no one to blame other than themselves. I don't have a lot of cows.. 2 Beefmasters, 3 Gerts, a Braford and an f1 Br x Herefrd, an f1 Black Hereford x Brahma, and 2 Brangus. I Iike the way the BMs and Gerts look. But I breed them all to a Brangus. All the calves are black and you can't tell the crosses from the straight Brangus.
Used to be 150 years ago, there were businesses that made wagons, buggies, harness and buggy whips. When the auto was invented, many of them started making autos, or parts and gave up the wagons. Some didn't and folded up. But I don't reckon there were many that kept making buggy whips they couldn't sell, and bitched about the auto "ruining" the buggy business!