Hearing 1700 to 1800$ for bred cows at Provost

[tweaker101]

AF, sorry to hear about your father...atleaset the suffering is over for all in different ways. About farming well everybody has a different spin to what is the right, I think if it works for you and your family run with it...but I think that all my hard work or fun..depends on how you look at it should have some financial rewards at the end of the day. I enjoy doing what I am doing with our farm so I think that it is not work but fun...my regular job(off farm)...not so much fun..LOL

[tweaker101]

We bought more cows this past spring to go along with our expansion plans...we paid $1800.00 for each cow calf pair, I thought it was a fair deal...cows were 3-4 years old and in good shape...and we sold the calves this fall for around $775.00 after all the auction fees and trucking...was it a good deal?

[DogPatch]

Yes. I would say it was a good deal.

[grassfarmer]

Not as good a deal as cows bought at $900 in the fall
of '09 - that was the real opportunity in this cattle
cycle.

[tweaker101]

GF..I wish we would have been in a different stage in life to have been able to buy cows back in 2009 as compared today but hey one cow at a time right?

[Horse]

tweaker
1800 pasture150 breeding50 salt min vet 50 winter feed 300 = Yardage 50 dep/deathloss@5% 90
total 2490 _775 =1715 DId that cow make you any money?

[ASRG]

Horse......you old sinner....where have you been hiding?

[Horse]

Had to go for therapy as I couldnt handle some of the hyprocity on here.

[DogPatch]

kind of sucks for those that sold good cows between 2003, and 2009 for less than $500

[tweaker101]

But for those exiting the industry it sure is good,

[grassfarmer]

DogPatch like all good myths that one gets bigger
with each telling. How many good cows were sold for
less than $500 between 2003-2009? If we are still
talking bred cows I'd suggest very few. Quite a lot of
cull cows for sure but if they were bred cows they
weren't likely the quality of the ones making $1700 in
Allfarmers post.
I see I made a typo in my earlier post - I meant to say
$600 cows in 2009 not $900 cows. That was the
opportunity in this cattle cycle.

[ASRG]

2009 was definitely the time to buy cows....if you had the feed? If I remember correctly both hay and straw were pretty brutal? That was a really dry year.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I remember hay at $160 bale and straw at $60?
I think I bought barley that year at $3.60/bu (actually my own barley) and baled up my own straw (which I priced at 1 cent a pound....see I can cook the numbers as well as anybody!) and got my cows fed through the winter relatively cheap!
I remember one guy saying it cost him $900 to get his cows through (had to start feeding in September)!