western iowa,by Denison | oldtiger - 10/26/2025 10:03
You're missing the point entirely. If feed costs go down order buyers will absolutely bid more on calves because they have more money to play with. I'm not sure you're understanding the feedlot mind set. In about all situations in a large feedlot setting, costs and sales price are locked in on the board. They operate on a certain profit per head and stick to the program. The order buyers job is to fill the keep the feedlot in calves to be able to keep running with a set $/head. Make sense?
Actually lately it seems like the cow calf guy wants top dollar no matter if the feeder loss is small or huge,getting very hard to bid mor when they seem like a breakeven at best-the corporate feeders will someday have a way to eliminate the farmer feeder no matter how hard we try-cant blame the cow calf guy,just realize that a lot of us farmer feeders are in a very tough postion that I would guess 90%of us have never been |
cow/calf thoughts
