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Walnut Grove MN USA | Jim, I haul cattle once in a while and coming from the hog industry all my life I have never been able to figure out the cattle business. Just last week loaded cattle part load on one farm, looked like a finishing lot to me, then loaded the second truck(me) with a part load then move to a different farm to load 16 head (took one hour, I was less than happy about that) while the first truck went to a sale barn to finish his load. We hauled them to a cattle buyers facility, unloaded, then reloaded (they gave shots) and hauled them 40 miles back the same direction we came from to another finishing lot. Hauling fats is easy. when you hit the chute you can be back on the road in 15 minutes, hauling calves is always an experince, Be there at 8am cattle don't show until 10 then they need to sort and finally get loaded and out by 3pm, or Montana cowboys drunk at 9am on a sunday morning when they got 15 trucks to get loaded. Cattle get trucked all over the place. I don't think there are many cattle slaughterhouses in SK. I know of 6 in eastern Nebraska alone and one in SD and one in IA but 3 of those NE plants are right near the IA border, a couple in KS, one in Green Bay, and a couple in the Minneapolis area, oh and one near me in Windom MN. I haven't done it myself but the boss has hauled MN cattle down to Liberal KS I think it was.
Edited by mike in sw mn 12/13/2007 23:06
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Cattle from Saskatchewan?
