Joe T. S. reports from the San Angelo auction last week that 600 + lb calves are bringing $1.60/lb, 3 – 400lb calves, $2.17/lb. Wow! A manifestation of the drought and reduction in herds last year, as well as the high cost of grain to feed them out (not us, of course!).
Joe and I recently drove to E. Texas, LA, MS, AR, OK, KS and CO. Yeah, wow on that too. What did we see? More like what did we not see – we did not see many cattle …