Every successful adult knows all business has to be profitable. Whether it is ranching, a grocery store, delivering propane or selling burgers, it can not, and will not continue without a profit. Teenage Texas Longhorn show-kids may not have come to that realization.
A great registered Texas Longhorn cow can sell for $380,000. A great registered Holstein cow can sell for $380,000, that is retail value. The buyer knows, has a plan, thinks he knows, or may really have an insider-track to a way this investment will pay for itself, and fetch a return of equal, or more value. Most high dollar cattle ...
If you sit at the local livestock auction every animal that enters the ring has a weight displayed so each buyer knows. Bidders bid on pounds of weight times cents per pound. Pairs averaged $1050 each, and steers averaged $1.09 per pound last week. This is a wholesale salvage value. Most of these cattle sold will be processed within a day, or for sure, a few months. That isn't emotional, or a perceived value
Memo to clients in China, Russia, Israel, Africa and Europe: Dickinson Cattle Co, LLC, has been an exporter of Texas Longhorn semen and embryos since 1988 to a total of 28 countries outside the USA. Each country has regulations for import, which we adhere to 100%. As each country adds additional enforcements we will continue to comply if at all possible. Some ...