Re: Cattle prices



"Derry Argue" <home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Jim Webster" <Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> What do you reckon on the price of stores, Jim? I am wondering if I should
> buy a few stores as grass mowers.
>
> I still have 27 acres of grass untouched since last year. Not quite as
> shocking as it sounds as I use it for dog training and one dog sold equals
> the total income I would get if I sold the grass (and so lost the cover
for
> training). Also, some is due to be planted with trees any day now. Didn't
> they used to leave grass like this and graze it late as "foggage"?
>

Well the price of stores has come down; they are cheaper than they were.
Also they are also cheaper in autumn than they are in spring when everyone
has grass and wants them.

If you could pick up something pretty hardy, but not psychotic, kick them
out onto your rough grass now, by spring they should be bigger.
In theory the finishers want an animal that has the frame and will be fast
to finish, also by spring there could be the signs of a shortage of cattle.

Ideally you probably want something 12 month old, so that in May it is old
enough to have another summer on better grass, really grow on, and finish,
if necessary, inside next winter.

In theory you might even make a profit, but I think that at this point I'd
have to point out that Oz's signature is perfectly apt for this advice as
well. I confess I'd be tempted, if the stores were cheap enough and I had
the grass sitting there waiting to be eaten.

Jim Webster


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