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Similar situation, first time we ever had the problem and we lost seven to frothy bloat this year.  I didn't even know the difference between it and regular bloat.  We never lost more than three to any other causes combined in a single year before.  It was extremely bad in this region while the...

Send your ip to [email protected].  I'd assume you're on one of the asian/pacific ips that were blocked as large groups a while back due to an insane amount of malicious traffic.  It wasn't you, it was your neighbors to the north.

http://animalscience.tamu.edu/images/pdf/beef/beef-steer-classification.pdf

Heat Wave x Charolais.

I almost think Houston would be better off just cutting back on the amount of steers they brand so they could stop catching hell for low payouts on steers that would just get the gate at other shows.  It's starting to tarnish the entire show.

Again, no, he didn't.  Analyzing and judging it based on the rules/logic of a regular auction leads to flawed conclusions because it's not actually a regular auction.  He earned $75k, the amount the HLSR has been very clear that the grand champion steer is paid. The buyers weren't bidding to...

If you are going to analyze it based on free market capitalism and what is actually earned, the only real gripe would be that the floor price was low and you don’t get your check in anything resembling a reasonable amount of time.  Complaints beyond that are just whining that you want to be...

You're splitting hairs on something that can be faked a LOT easier if somebody is trying to fake it. What if a storm comes in and you get a large group that calves a few days early? What about years where birth weights are down 5-10lbs across the board due to a drought?

San Antonio did most certainly up their game on the auction prices this year. However, I don't think it's really fair to compare the price Houston pays for those 6th-10th place calves to a show like San Antonio.  In San Antonio you just get the gate and the floor price if you place that low...

I guess if you are calling it a black and white over 1300 vs under that'd be true.  I tend to consider anything 1300 +/- 25 to be 1300.  The breeds he went above that range seemed to be special circumstances.  In Brahman, the only really powerful steer was ironically the 1050 lb lightweight. ...

chambero, which ones?  I thought you were correct with your first statement about him sticking to that 1,300 lb level.  There were a few breeds where had got away from it due to a lack of top flight steers but in the breeds where he had choices at that 1300 weight, he seemed to try to stay close...

It will most certainly impact the lower end market and in the grand scheme of things, six times as many steers sell in that sub $1,200 price range than the $10k and up types. Using the Cattle.com sale record database, of the 3,832 steers we have a record of selling online or in a live auction...

That all breed sale is not a commercial thing, it's a political thing.  The Hereford guys have enough people on the panel of the sale that they're able to load up the front end with those fat, large framed, Herefords.  It's been going on for years.

steerjock07, there's a lot more to the shows than finishing in the top five.

It's February so it's time for mid-westerners to make the argument that all show steers should look the same. They don't do that at Ft Worth, they have Angus, Hereford, Polled Hereford, Shorthorn, and ABC classes that make up about 40% of the show.  That point also contradicts your previous...

800 is market price now.

Kobo, let me take a moment to explain the differences for you since my blog evidently went right over your head.  You claiming that what I said and what you said are in any way similar is the second most disrespectful thing somebody has said about me in the past month, one spot behind a rant a...

I can certainly see how it might have come across that way but that wasn't the intention at all.  Apart from the comments on it, people have read so many different things into that post.  The public and private response to it, both positive and negative, has honestly been the most interesting...

I wouldn't pay much attention to that guy, I heard he's an a**h***.

I understand the good intentions of that suggestion but l still don't think you guys fully grasp the size of the shows down here.  At a show like San Antonio, that would cost $18,000/yr just for the scholarships that are given to the champion and reserve champion.  That's more than the yearly...