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west central iowa | Your selling weight is way tooo low in your figures. You can't get around the cost of the feeder gary, when they bring within dollars of each other no matter where you look in the country, but you can decide how big to make them. Feed cost are relativley low, so you have to put the pounds on bigger to lower your breakeven. When yearlings are costing 1050 to 1150 a head, you can't figure selling them at 1100 lbs. for $1.00. In Nov. Dec. and Jan. We will go back to 500-600 lb. calves. For right now, I wanted something to feed that would be ready to sell the end of April and replace back with some 7wts. I know there is a better chance of profit with the smaller calves, I just don't want them now. I for one don't want to make margin calls over $1.03 either. And don't want to lock in a $3.00 potential profit. | |
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I'm having to hand feed 8 wt. yearlings from kentucky
