Running yearlings on grass

[cowz]

Do any  of you planeteers like to gamble.....really gamble......like buying a semi load of 500 lb steers and throwing them out on pasture for 5 months?

Always tempting this time of year.  What are "background" yearlings bringing ($) in your part of the country?

 

[jackpotcattle]

1000 lbs are bringing any where from $1 to $107. We normally hold over our light end and run on grass, but with 600 lbs bringing $125 or so we sold them. Who knows, but with the what the board is paying last time I checked, it might be even a stronger market in Aug. (like normal up here in SD for 1000 lbs grass cattle) But, that is a huge risk in my opinion, unless it is something you do every year and have it cash flowed.

 

[kanshow]

We've done it before and had results on both sides financially.    Haven't done it for several years because grass has gotten too high around here. 

 

[rocknmranch]

We were just considering doing that exact thing yesterday. Just got a new lease, for a steal, and could hold quite a load of feeders......

The lighter stuff round here is selling for $1.60, something like that.... Really considering taking in a load of lightweights.

 

[Alscows]

Little 400-500 #'s $1.20-1.25.
Really tempting with fats around $1.00

 

[kanshow]

What's everyone paying for grass? 

 

[chambero]

In north central Texas on native pasture, you generally pay $10-$20/acre for land that will run a cow to every 10 acres or so.  Usually on the lower end of that scale.  Like with anything, small places cost more per acre.