'Red Hot' Cattle Board . . . .

[westernvicki]

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&u act=8&ved=0ahUKEwj4gYzXgqLTAhWD64MKHRYGC2MQFggzMAQ &url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fpolitics%2F articles%2F2017-04-05%2Fchina-s-beef-with-u-s-cows-may-be-on-the-table-in-trump-xi-meet&usg=AFQjCNEImJc3IkRv_o0KJbQcbhLF91YXEg&sig2=Z lz9lnpJGJSjbPCxRyg9ag&bvm=bv.152180690,d.amc

This is a big deal; a game changer: nice to see the pendulum swing.

[WiltonRanch]

All in one's assessment of "quality"....Ponoka lists "older cow calf pairs" at 2250....to me, those are ones that the market likely know by name,,,they come thru once a year...;-)
A decent "breeding" heifer is likely closer to 1500, however you certainly can get a deal at your local auction house....the biggest variance is ones opinion on "quality"

Lol. Quality in the eye of the beholder. Stockyard pairs I'm leary of. Worked there long enough to know unless it was a dispersal those pairs aren't generally top notch. This year we're lucky to have 50 of our own heifers to breed. Some years it's lucky to find 40. Even so sometimes your own smaller ones end up blooming and turn out better than okay ones you buy.

[woodland]

Wilton ranch the size comment is very true as well. If you only keep the biggest eye catching heifers then your cow size should increase over time. My neighbor that we work with a lot sold some cull cows the same time as me so I hauled them in the liner with mine. The top three compartments are all the same size and I put 9 cows and a bull in two of them easy. I could barely fit 4 of his cows in the other compartment. His cows averaged 1775 pounds. The heaviest of the 65 of ours was 1445 and averaged 1260 pounds that we took in.

He was very surprised and said he won't harass me over my lighter weaning weights any more.