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Ohio Beef Cattle
letter
From Sam Custer
OSU Extension Darke County
The December 3, issue # 913, of the Ohio BEEF Cattle letter is now
posted to the web.
This year’s OCA Replacement Female Sale saw average prices that were
nearly $800 per sale lot higher than last year. Is there a message?
Articles this week include:
2nd OCA Replacement Female Sale a Success
Grazing Bites, December 2014
Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling Update . . .
Sam
2nd OCA Replacement Female Sale a Success - John F. Grimes, OSU
Extension Beef Coordinator
The Ohio Cattlemen's Association (OCA) held their first Replacement
Female Sale on November 28 at the Muskingum Livestock Auction Company
in Zanesville, Ohio. A large crowd was on hand to bid on 88 high
quality females in the sale. The sale represented an excellent
opportunity for cow-calf producers to add quality females with
documented breeding and health records to their herds and potentially
take advantage of the positive economic outlook for the beef industry.
Buyers had the opportunity to appraise 88 lots of bred heifers, bred
cows, and fall-calving pairs. The sale included 52 lots of bred heifers
that averaged $2,557, 29 lots of bred cows that averaged $2,580, and
seven fall-calving pairs which averaged $2,971. The 88 total lots
grossed $228,600 for an overall average of $2,598. Prices ranged from
$1,200 to $3,700. The females sold to buyers from Ohio and West
Virginia. Col. Ron Kreis served as the auctioneer.
Nobleland Farm of Caldwell, OH consigned the top selling bred cow at
$3,700. The lot 74 female was a Shorthorn-Angus cross and sold to Elmer
Hines of Ashville, OH. The top selling bred heifer at $3,600 was
consigned by Rachel Linder of Louisville, OH. The lot 28 female was a
purebred Simmental heifer that sold to Rose Koehler of Lancaster, OH.
The top selling pair at $3,300 was the lot 23 registered Angus female
with a heifer calf at side from Estadt Angus of Orient, OH and sold to
Elmer Hines of Ashville, OH...
Read more at: http://beef.osu.edu/beef/beefDec0314.html
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