Jason Sawyer
Jason Sawyer
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Some people are looking at breakevens that are lower than feeder contract prices. The summer contracts are beginning to soften, but there have been opportunities to hedge them for a reasonable margin.
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Labor is such a key issue that self-feeding is an attractive option. Occasionally, however, we'll get into a situation where we fill the feeders and discover the feed doesn't work physically; it's gotten bridged inside the feeder and cattle have gone without it for four or five days.
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It's easy to make a lightweight calf gain 3.5 lbs./day. If you've averaged 1.8 lbs. historically and were always trying to get 2.0 lbs., it's hard to change your mindset to restricting gain rather than maximizing it.