iam looking for a appendix shorthorn hfr. born in the spring and located in nebreska. could travel to s.d. or iowa. any color but prefer one that can compete at the regional shows in ne. and stand in the top 3 at big shows. needs to be in the 2500. price range. want to purchase from the breeder not a trader. any one have some ? iam traveling to s.d. and iowa this weekend.
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lowann
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Good luck on that one. We just looked at a red/white heifer in eastern Iowa a couple of weeks ago. She was good. She sold for $10,500.00
stumpy
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If you would like you could try in Kansas. We have a couple that are very good but we cannot get any signifigant traffic to our place. No matter how many good pictures of nicely presented cattle, that are an accurate representations of the calves we take, hardly anyone seems interested. It is very frusrating to put a lot of work into a program and only hear about the big traffic and high prices. Sorry about the rant I am just getting worn out on trying to sell Jr. show cattle and only having people tell me they are worth alot. But if you are interested please let me know.
OH Breeder
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M Bar said:
Agree.Although, we already experienced this last year. The markets recently progressed up ( feeders calves/weaning calves). Last year we sold some for 80-57 cents # for 600 lb calves.
Folks seem to get greedy. It is unfortunate that 2500 will not buy a decent show prospect in some folks minds.
shortyjock89
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We sold a lot of calves pretty cheap this year, and unless something is in my top, TOP end, I don't have a problem with not asking a WHOLE lot of money. This year I sold a steer for half of what I KNOW I could have sold him for, just to sell him to a 4H family...and I sold a heifer pretty dang cheap, but she was young and it was nice to get her sold so soon. I've had some much bigger offers on her since, and clipped her today..and WOW, she's a lot better than I thought she was going to be....
Wish I could help you out, I have an Appendix heifer and she's pretty nice, but I'm in IL, and I know you're not wanting to travel that far....good luck!
Wish I could help you out, I have an Appendix heifer and she's pretty nice, but I'm in IL, and I know you're not wanting to travel that far....good luck!
lowann
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We just got our Lautner Farms 2008 Update book today. 70 high selling calves listed. Starting at $6,000.00-$60,000.00. Personally, I would rather see our show calves go to a 4H, or FFA family that show, and take good care of them. We sold a Hard Core steer last year for allot less than what we were offered by someone else.(steer jock) He was shown all over, and we had a great time watching him.
Jill
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You also have to remember the 70 high selling calves were out of out of hundreds of thousands of semen staws sold. I think discretionary income is on hold for a while and the medium range show calf for most people fits in this range. I know for our family we install septic systems, in a normal year we will do from 25-35, this year we have put in 1 new system, tends to cut into our show calf budget pretty quickly.
We made the trip to Iowa to pick up a cow and stopped at a couple of the farms. There are 100's of sales going on in just that one weekend we were there, we got to talking and if you bring home good structure, a good family can pick up a calf at ANY of these places and be ok. I think people get way to caught up in looking for the great one and sometimes overlook the ones that really have the most potential down the road. I feel for you Stumpy, for some reason Kansas is a tough place to sell show cattle, not sure why, but that has been our experience.
We made the trip to Iowa to pick up a cow and stopped at a couple of the farms. There are 100's of sales going on in just that one weekend we were there, we got to talking and if you bring home good structure, a good family can pick up a calf at ANY of these places and be ok. I think people get way to caught up in looking for the great one and sometimes overlook the ones that really have the most potential down the road. I feel for you Stumpy, for some reason Kansas is a tough place to sell show cattle, not sure why, but that has been our experience.
Its hard here in Missouri too. Seems like if we'd move the farm 10 miles over the Iowa border we'd be set. Guess they have the mentality that all good calves come from Iowa? They need to cross the border for some bargains! (thumbsup)
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