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Marketing of beef calves.
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Douglas
Posted 11/13/2012 14:13 (#2695014 - in reply to #2693821)
Subject: Re: Marketing of beef calves.


Central North Carolina
Around here you have sales barns, graded sales, BQA (requires certification) sales, private, and video auction. Generally speaking most small producers use the sale barn. The issue here is that at the barn the calves sit around all day losing weight and don’t get weighed until just before entering the ring. The graded and BQA sales are usually weighed soon after arrival. The video or telephone auctions are for trailer lot loads of about 49,500 lbs. and are handled a few months each year. They are weighed after loading and normally reduced by 2 or 3 percent shrink by agreement. The graded and BQA sales are for the purpose of combining small lots into trailer size loads or at least larger grouping of uniform calves. In theory that improves the sales prices. The graded and BQA, and video all require preconditioning. Most of the calves arriving at the barn here are being weaned on the trailer. Lately the BQA and graded sales are getting less and less animals because I think the larger progressive guys are going to the lot size loads of their cattle or partnering with their neighbors to get 60-70 head.
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