THIS TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 2003!!
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WINTER LIVESTOCK IN ENID, OK!

ESTIMATING 300 Head of PAIRS, BRED COWS & HFRS!

ALREADY CONSIGNED:

Boehs Ranch 48 FANCY, blk/bwf, 2nd calf pairs, bred back to Angus bulls
Roberts Ranch 40 Blk/Bwf/Charx cows, 5 to 6 yrs old, with Angus/Charx calves
15 Blk/Bwf/Charx cows, 5 to 6 yrs old, bred to McVicker Angus
Sallee Ranch 20 Herf cows, running age, with fancy bwf calves at side
40 High Quality Angus/Herfordx hfrs, bred to Ang+Herf bulls
Rodney Simrod 10 FANCY, Angus pairs, 3 to 5 yrs old, bred to Pollard Angus
C 4 Cattle Co. 21 FANCY, Angus cows, 5 yrs old, Montana origin, bred to Angus/Maine Anjou cross bull, calving right away

There will be lots more by sale time!
Please call for any information or consignments!
580-796-2150

Another excellent market this week! Outstanding demand for stocker cattle! Lots of calves bringing over $110.00 a pound! Yearling cattle bringing $85.00 to $97.00, with instances more! One set of pairs up to $1250.00! Butcher cattle about steady.

We would like to take this opportunity to say THANK YOU to all of our buyers and sellers here in Enid. We greatly appreciate the support! Here in Enid this week:

John Shaeffer bwf str 377 @ $142.00 Danny Geiss mix-hfr 356 @ $120.50
William McConnell blk-bull 336 @ $137.00 William McConnell blk-hfr 423 @ $116.00
Pat Riley blk-str 412 @ $128.50 Wayne Janzen blk-hfr 431 @ $115.00
David Burns wf-str 519 @ $117.00 Zelnicek Family Trust mix-hfr 456 @ $109.00
John Koetter mix-str 525 @ $115.00 Steven Ross blk-hfr 468 @ $107.00
Vincent Pribil red-str 570 @ $108.00 John Shaeffer bwf-hfr 530 @ $104.00
Glen Markes blk-str 635 @ $103.50 Newt Roberts blk-hfr 576 @ $99.50
Newt Roberts blk-str 639 @ $100.50 Zelnicek Family Trust char-hfr 603 @ $98.25
Jere Nelson blk-str 694 @ $96.50 Rick Graham blk-hfr 663 @ $94.50

Isn’t the agriculture business interesting? We have a multi-billion dollar industry that worries about a 100.00 cow. We have ranchers that will stay up all night, keep a fire warm, and put a calf in his kitchen to keep it alive. We have farmers that will work 48+ hours in a row to get their wheat cut in time. We are an industry that will spend millions of dollars hoping to make a five to ten percent return. How great would the other industry’s be if their people cared that much? It seems that most of the “big-time CEO’s” are more worried about their retirement or investment account rather than their business or integrity.

We’re still wondering what “national id” means. For over a hundred years cattle have been branded, ear tagged, ear notched, freeze branded, dallied, and described to identify them. There are folks who take special pride in their cattle and can call each of them by name. Should we start implanting our children? It doesn’t make much sense to make the few thousand that call cattle their livelihood spend all their money to identify their cattle for the FEW packers and retailers who make all the money! If the purpose of national id is to put the small and medium sized operators out of business, then it might be worth the expense. If that is not it’s purpose, the why do we need it?

The wheat run appears to be over already. The number of cattle on wheat pasture this year was a far cry from what it normally is. The number of available cattle for sale is decreasing every year. So many packers and feedyards are employing wheat farmers, that the number of cattle for sale may soon be less than the captive supplies.

This is one of those exceptional years when the market is going UP in March rather than down! Take advantage of it! This week in Enid:

David Walker blk-bull 410 @ $125.00 Lawson Fenton mix-hfr 302 @ $126.00
Lawson Fenton char-str 407 @ $124.00 5-B Ranch bwf-hfr 351 @ $118.00
John Enns mix-str 487 @ $119.00 MC Cattle Co blk-hfr 516 @ $109.00
W.D. Eggers red-str 500 @ $114.50 Robert Easter blk-hfr 484 @ $106.00
Scott Henneke mix-str 585 @ $112.00 Sarah Elliott blk-hfr 585 @ $98.50
Lee Stewart lim-str 607 @ $107.50 Lee Stewart lim-hfr 600 @ $96.50
Geiss Cattle mix-str 653 @ $99.00 Frank Powell mix-hfr 598 @ $94.75
Dick Dettle mix-str 716 @ $95.00 Sarah Elliott blk-hfr 642 @ $92.00
Geiss Cattle mix-str 734 @ $94.50 Seller Cattle mix-hfr 720 @ $88.00
Larry Anderson mix-str 763 @ $92.50 Newton Roberts blk-hfr 736 @ $86.10
Bill Steinert mix-str 819 @ $91.50 Lee Stewart lim-hfr 740 @ $84.85
Bill Steinert mix-str 838 @ $90.70 Wayne Haffner mix-hfr 775 @ $83.00
Nick Kramer blk-str 892 @ $85.50 Newton Roberts blk-hfr 820 @ $81.90

SPECIAL COW SALE TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 2004!
ALREADY CONSIGNED:

75 Fancy, Angus sired replacement heifers, gtd open, 800 to 900 lbs
75 Blk, Bwf, Rwf bred heifers, 900 to 1000 lbs, bred to Angus/Herf bulls
40 Bwf/Herf pairs, running ages, all blk & bwf calves at side
40 Bred cows, 3 years and older, calving March-May

Wonderful moisture over a big area last week! Lots of good rain around with some places getting a little more than needed. We had a few creeks and rivers run over here in Oklahoma, but I did hear that western Kansas and Colorado got some moisture! Graze out wheat prospects and grass prospects look great! These stocker prices are reflecting that too! Pairs and bred cows selling good. The replacement heifer market is somewhere out by Jupiter! I saw some replacement Angus heifers bring over $2000.00 a head! WOW!

It’s certainly great to see the enthusiasm in the market and in the general population. I notice that there is still a lot of people that go out to eat every night. The shopping malls are still busy and the price of gas is going up, yet the big car market hasn’t dropped much. This thing called credit may be more of a danger than we know!

Our fat cattle market is about as good as we can ask. Carcass weights have dropped almost 12 pound from last year! Feedlots are very current in their marketings and replacement cattle are hard to find. The wheat run will be over next week. It is amazing how many cattle have moved in the last 20 days and how many of them were already spoken for.

One more week of wheat cattle runs! Winter Livestock, at all of it’s locations, has feed and water pens to handle 10,000 plus cattle each! If you need to pull off early give us a call, we have the place for you! 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year!

This week in Enid:

Lloyd Farms Rd-bull 310 @ $129.00 Wes Redding blk-hfrs 410 @ $113.00
Conull Farms lim-strs 496 @ $120.00 Delmar Wedel blk-hfrs 437 @ $108.00
Mike Bakaer mix-strs 514 @ $119.00 Byron Hobson blk-hfrs 475 @ $106.00
Mark Rodenburg blk-strs 555 @ $111.50 Kevin Smith blk-hfrs 552 @ $99.00
Byron Hobson mix-strs 618 @ $97.25 Jeff Boedeker mix-hfrs 590 @ $96.00
Kevin Smith blk-strs 705 @ $94.75 Galen Brakhage mix-hfrs 584 @ $96.00
Mark Rodenburg blk-strs 702 @ $93.75 John Warfield blk-hfrs 602 @ $92.00
Waylan Elliott mix-strs 734 @ $90.50 Kevin Smith blk-hfrs 682 @ $87.50
Dale Miller blk-strs 747 @ $89.80 John Warfield mix-hfrs 713 @ $86.90
Dale Miller blk-strs 817 @ $87.25 Ted Mack mix-hfrs 728 @ $85.40
Waylon Elliott blk-strs 816 @ $86.60 Mark Rodenburg mix-hfrs 711 @ $84.70
Carl Mack mix-strs 832 @ $86.10 Chris Eckhardt mix-hfrs 768 @ $84.10
David Rodenburg mix-strs 865 @ $84.30 Dale Hayes mix-hfrs 764 @ $83.30
Randy Dildine mix-strs 910 @ $83.50 Mark Rodenburg mix-hfrs 818 @ $81.10
Max Acton bwf-strs 991 @ $82.00 Dale Elliott mix-hfrs 845 @ $80.50

Special cow sale the last Tuesday of the month!

Life is funny a lot of the time. Sometimes you get good things, sometimes bad. Most of the time it's good, kind of like our cattle market right now. Four months ago it was the highest it's ever been in recorded history, now it's at some of the highest levels in the last 20 years!

When I was younger working in Dodge City, I asked Jack and Ray why Jack started calves so low. They told me the feeder cattle and fat cattle were bought by professionals and the calves by mostly non-professionals. Well, that made sense to me. What doesn't make sense now is that fat cattle trade in a wider range than calves and in shorter periods of time. What happened to professionalism in our fat market?

The market is extremely good for this time of year. Try to take advantage of it! 3000 head here in Enid this week! Give us a call! We're just the guys next door!

Joe Swenton mix-strs 351 @ $130.00 G & K Farms blk-hfrs 317 @ $121.00
Joe Swenton mix-strs 420 @ $125.00 Brice Schou blk-hfrs 383 @ $117.00
Jonothan Cross mix-str 510 @ $120.00 Jonothan Cross mix-hfrs 459 @ $111.00
Richard Gray blk-str 612 @ $103.50 Warren LoveladyAngus-hfrs 609 @ $100.00
Lacy Butler mix-str 709 @ $93.00 Nelson Burns herf-hfrs 686 @ $88.00
Larry Miller char-strs 785 @ $88.10 McCart Farms blk-hfrs 744 @ $85.25
Rudy Simic mix-strs 818 @ $87.25 Dennis Steichenblk-hfrs 797 @ $81.50
McCart Farms blk-strs 898 @ $84.00 Nelson Burns herf-hfrs 809 @ $80.25

Special cow sale the last Tuesday of the month!