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I don't know where you live ejoe326 but in iowa light 7weight heifers that bring 1.60 are fleshy and not desirable.  Replacement quality heifers weighing 7 and in light to moderate flesh are in the 1.70 plus range and some are pushing 1.80 How much does it cost you to background a bred heifer...

cattle.com usually post something after the display time frame is over

you nailed it sgetz007

The rail doesn't take into account all the cripples and couldn't finish at a decent weight, all the extra hair that hurt feed efficiency, the smaller frame score that hurts growth etc. Talked to a guy the other day about this.  Really a 1500 calf doesn't cut it now, you need at  least 2,000 I...

Chambero you are probably talking about sisal twine.  It is an organic twine that rots away.  In areas where people know what it is like to get moisture 12 months out of the year that crap is worthless.  Joke around here is you put the bales where you want them for feeding because you won't move...

results past few if any under 3,000 that you would want.  This year, I wouldn't be surprised if none brought under 3,500 maybe even 4,000 they have a super nice set this year.

Promectrin pour on is very cheap and very effective, use injection wormer to control worms. 

From what I have been around if the British influence is over 50% then figure about 80% choice.  Any Holstein that ever smelled corn will grade choice.

Data from ISU D-Lab doesn't show that LA-200 (oxytetracycline) is worthless.  Penicillin works well against foot rot and is a cheap broad spectrum antibiotic.  Would I use it in respiratory cases, never.  You need something faster acting.  Banamine is great but have to be careful of ulcers.  I...

Xbar you wording on not counting land as an expense confuses me, I might be misreading what you are saying.  Don't you have to do an opportunity cost though to show a true profit vs just sitting around and renting the ground out for instance?

For a while some people told me that whole corn will give you the same results as cracked corn.  Then I looked in the yard after the cattle were sold and saw corn growing all over from all the corn they ate, crapped out, and basically fertilized.  So I fail to see how corn can go through a...

Answer:  No that is way below market price even.  Most 7weights will bring over 1.50 if they are of any quality around here.

By looking at it my first thought is I have never seen an unskirted bale feeder that ever saved hay.  Their design doesn't look like anything new that hasn't been tried before and failed.  JMO

Ok couple of points: 1.  You may implant heifers as young calves.  We do all the time and haven't had any issues with breeding problems.  We use Synovex C implants.  They are a lower potency and just have 10mg estradiol and 100mg P4 in them.  A good rule we use though is if you "know for sure"...

Mill Iron you are referring to Ovine Progressive Pneumonia I bet, nasty stuff.  Knabe I wish I knew what you were talking about, but there are no specifics at all in the statement.  Respiratory that isn't deep lung can be fusobacterium (calf diptheria) or a handful of other things.  Any idea...

Frostback I don't know what you health issues are, but going for a blood draw and x-rays is not what I would consider the normal yearly check up.  I am guessing they will send you x-rays to an expert who will look at past x rays if they exist and check for changes.  Bloodwork will be analyzed...

Seems like more of an immunity thing to me.  Really bad one year, gone the next.  Don't seem much for a few years and then bam a bad year again.

I don't know what your situation is but he can make them a bit too long bodied and lacking some capacity.  Not what most show rings are going for.

in this case that seems like a potato vs po tat o Either way they were not as free moving and more vulnerable to falling and going lame/hurting themselves significantly.  Both are things the industry works to avoid.  I have heard others criticize Zilmax for the same reasons, also can make some...

Merck pulled the feed additive off the market last week.  A few days previous to that Tyson said it would stop buying Zilmax cattle since they ship to Japan.  Japan has a few "food safety concerns" or as they should be called lawful trade barriers.  There are tenderness issues with Zilmax and I...