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Western Ontario | I agree, not much talk of hoops and confinement. The folks that did that last time got scorched and are probably now storing boats and campers in the hoop. Bred heifers and bred cows are bringing top dollar continent wide but is it expansion or replacement. $5k (talking about the Canadian snow peso) for a bred sounds like a lot of money but if you just sent a 9 year old cull cow, got $2500 for her and her steer calf brought $2500 this past fall is that all bad?? The things I keep hearing continent wide are low pasture availability, hay and pasture ground that’s been converted to crop ground and the fences aren’t going back up, older producers that aren’t looking for any more work/can’t find labour and the young guy that maybe wants 30 cows needs to scrape up $120-150k and pay 8% interest with crazy equipment/pasture/hay and overheads. It’s not that I think this time is different but might get stretched out a bit. My question for everybody on here is where is the cow herd expanding?? Correct me if I’m wrong but sounds like parts of Texas and that Missouri have better feed resources than the last couple years but are they expanding or just rebuilding closer to numbers of 2-3 years ago, any other areas expanding, honest question because as Saskman asks how do we know this is the final push, to actually expand cow herd first we need to take a significant amount of heifers out of the slaughter mix??
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