What are you going to do?

[cowman]

Just wondering what all of you are going to do with your cattle this fall? My boss(my son...how the roles have changed) informs me we are selling the yearlings next week. Hanging tough on the calves until late fall, then selling the big steer calves in the late presort sales. Wintering the heifers/small late steers and keeping/calving the cull cows. Which incidently, is just what I would do! Maybe I taught him well after all!
Either that or all fools think alike!!!
But seriously, what are you going to do?

[almoy]

We are doing the same, already sold the yearlings a week ago. We were pleased with the price we got.

[carebear300]

Are you people ever in trouble exactly my idea and I could make a fortune being a agricultural consultant just advise my clients to do just the opposite to what I do and you will make money. Maybe this time I am right sure hope so for all our sakes.

[Muttley]

Planning on keeping about half as many yearling bulls to sell next spring. A few choice heifers as replacements should stay to. Hopefully the rest will sell. If I have to keep a few head I think I'll keep more heifers, they are easier for me to winter and I can either sell them next spring or breed and keep or sell later.

I need to cull older bulls and some cows but it kind of looks like I may have to keep. This is one reason I am only wintering half as many bulls, I figure if customers cannot sell older bulls why buy a younger one.

[Muttley]

Given that calf prices are the same as last year at this time, I am marketing all of my steers and my bottom end heifers (20% of my hiefer calves)in a presort sale in Innisfail today ........... as a purebred breeder, I castrated 75% of my bull calves up from 50% as I felt next spring is going to tough to sell yearling bulls, and depending uon the situation over the next two to three months more may well be castrated ............... the hiefers, well, I have had great sales of weaned hiefer calves in the fall over the past three years so I am testing the waters on them, but they too will be hitting the road if things do not prove out ............ only going to retain 1/2 or less of my normal number of heifers and hold all open healthy sound cows under 10 years of age over to rebreed. As heifers worth $700 on the market, cows $150 virtually says it all. The game is cash flow.

[achiliak]

We have been keeping the good heifers for a lot of years now so we have a very current herd. We are thinking of keeping the cows (except for three of four real bad ones) to calve them out and hope for a cull rebound next year. We will probably sell all the calves to prop up the cashflow. We feel that we will get just as many live calves out of the plan to cull cows as we will out of the plan to keep heifers, so we figure why sell the cows so cheap if we can get more for the heifers.

[ALICIA]

All fools think alike? I didn't think this line. I'm just going along for the ride.