feedlots

[johnboy555]

To bombay..............don't get me wrong, i am not pointing fingers, i am just trying to state the facts. Fact is most cowboys think feedlots are ok after govt. help but fact is they still lost up to 500 dollars per hd after govt. help. Put that in your soup.

[johnboy555]

to rsomer.........Whhhhhhaaaaaaaaa

[johnboy555]

Grassfarmer........you tell em dude

[carebear300]

Sorry grassfarmer I stand corrected, that is what I meant to say but thinking on my feet sometimes just don't get it wrote down just right. What will happen if the americans get a duty slapped onto canadian hogs moving into the american market. Just more problems for us all, not going to be simple.

[johnboy555]

kato......i agree with you totally but banker said not 1 more animal............i think likt maybe .00000000001 percent of cattle traded

[rusty1]

kato - youre right - where ever there is a wreck there is opportunity. rsomer should have bought some of the available $600 bred heifers with the money from his toooo higha priced calves that the feedlots spent their AIDs money on last fall.

[rusty1]

you watch rsomer he's going to listen to the AgExtension boys and plow down his hay land and plant potatoes :-)

[johnboy555]

rusty you r so funny and so right....hehehe

[rsomer]

If anyone has issues with the Alberta Ag numbers that is fine. Alberta Ag numbers show the feedlots are making $300 a head since BSE #2. If you have different numbers I would still appreciate it if you could share them. It would be good to share your view of feedlot costs, the numbers as you see them.
Thank you.

[cowman]

johnnyboy: I think you misunderstood me. I wasn't saying the feedlots were doing all right...obviously they aren't if they are packing it in! All I was saying was that this calf market doesn't return enough money to the cow/calf man to keep him viable. And incidently, this feed grain market isn't returning enough to the grain farmer either! Thus we have farmers growing less and less barley every year, even though it is the ideal crop for a lot of areas.
And here is the problem as I see it. The feeders need calves. The feeders need barley. And yes the feeders need to make a profit...no argument there!
But when push comes to shove does the cow/calf/barley grower really need the feedlot? Thirty five years ago there were basically no feedlots. Your cows had 70 calves, you fed out 70 calves and marketed them as fats! Home raised calves fattened on home raised grain. Now if necessary we could go back to that system! I am not saying that is desirable but it could be done? And maybe that will be the only way to capture enough money to make cow/calf work?