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| Bare minimum you need to be reimbursed for price differential on the colored cattle. In a normal market I would have dumped the cattle back on them. Pretty sad producer never learned their color chart in school. Even worse the rep never even looked at the cattle. They are charging a consignment fee, to look and video the cattle.
I guessing this was Superior? If it was I can send you the CEO's cell number and bend his ear. If they cant be honest on color, what else they hiding? One year selling on Superior my rep was tragically killed in a truck wreck. His brother came and delivered his contracts and to take over his clients. Well he failed to read our contracts before sorting calves.
We had 95% listed black, 5% could be red or Hereford influenced. I unloaded my steers and had one Red Angus steer on load. He cut calf back, told me I didn't fit contracts. I blew up and told him he never read contracts. Superior had sent another long time rep to help oversee load out.
I told first rep fine, cut the calf off. But when I went back to get heifers I was cutting reds off and contract would be short and it was coming off his share he was paying for it. Well second rep whent to his Cadillac and pulled contracts and quickly read them. He came back to weigh shack and told other rep he had to take my cattle.
I told him to piss off. We just cost my neighbors and myself time and shrink because of him not reading contracts the night before. We had enough calves for buyer, but I kept my reds. We quit that rep after another year for this kind of stuff. Same reason I quit Superior this year for this kind of crap. When producer pays 2% and consignment fee and does all the work its crap. Buyer is paying premium for a contract. They need to make it right. | |
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How much do you take off?
