So if I'm going to sell feeders??

[JD4ME]

So now the questions are on some 950-1000 pound calves, Sell now or finish them. Sell now or wait until post 27th. Better range of choices not exactly easy but better. Also would it help a persons price if they were to run each calf through the chute and get the ccia number off each calf and do a descroption of each animal, because when these guys were born we just put the tags in and wrote colour, sex and the usual in the book but the ccia number wasn't put in. as well half the steers were sold in late January ( a smart move as it turned out)
This years calves with the RFID tags the number went in right beside the description, the little self adhesive stickers with the numbers are a good thing.

[kato]

That's what I'm wondering too. We could send a list of numbers and birthdates along with the cattle, but would the buyer care?

[farmers_son]

Would it help your price to get the CCIA tag numbers if you sell your calves as feeders? No.

Regarding keeping your calves out to finish… Remember that CAIS will backstop much of the risk of holding those cattle past July 27. As for what is going to happen tomorrow, it could be better or it could be worse. Assuming you have CAIS margin, you will not loose your shirt if you decide to keep your feeders and you may do quite well on them. My opinion only.

[grassfarmer]

Kato, I would imagine the way it will evolve will be that in future cattle will all be sold with their birth information. You will not be paid a premium for this but you will be price penalised if you do not provide the information. It ends up being another chore that the producer does and doesn't get paid for but I believe it is inevitable, and perhaps even fair, that the breeder of a calf must provide background information on an animal that is afterall destined for the human foodchain at some point.