We have been blessed again with moisture on Saturday and again Sunday. At my house I received 1.75 inches and then 0.8 the next day.
My son said, “Isn’t that kinda unusual to get rain like we have in July and August?” I said, “Yes, very unusual.”
Last week on Thursday there was a big sell off in the futures market of fat cattle and feeders. Several feeder cattle months sold off $7 to $8 per hundredweight and several fat months sold off $5 per hundredweight. I’m not sure what the reason was whether it was profit taking from the funds, but considering we had gone up almost everyday for quite some time it should have been expected.
I was at a sale last week where 10 black heifers off the cow weighing 395 pounds brought $510 per hundredweight, which is $2,014 per head. That’s a pretty good price for a small heifer. Then their mates to them weighed 464 pounds and brought $376. There were two Charolais cross heifers on them—nice heifers, but that is $270 less and weighed 69 pounds more.
Perhaps the small heifers were higher than normal. I told the buyer beside me how much less the bigger heifers brought and he said, “Wow I’m glad I quit bidding on the small ones.” That same buyer does a very good job. One day I noticed hump-back steers on a set of calves that he had bought and then later pointed out a crooked head on another set so the sale barn took both calves off and resold them for the buyer as all bunches are guaranteed merchantable. So just being funny he said it so several people could hear. He said to me, “You are cutting me out of a lot of commission.”
There is a couple with three kids and the youngest son is very angry. One day the parents received a call from school and the teacher said, “Hey we just wanted to call you and tell you that you son has been acting up a lot at school.” The dad told the teacher, “I don’t know why you call us we don’t call you when he is acting ornery at home.
I read a statistic that stated if the man of the house will go to church that 93% of the time when those kids get older that they too will go to church. But if the woman goes and the man doesn’t only 17% of the time will their kids go to church later in life.
Editor’s note: The views expressed here are the author’s own and do not represent the view of High Plains Journal. Jerry Nine, Woodward, Oklahoma, is a lifetime cattleman who grew up on his family’s ranch near Slapout, Oklahoma.
