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Title: What is the price per pound for a steer
Post by: WSU on July 31, 2023, 09:04:58 AM: I've got an angus cross steer I'm selling to a friend. Hanging weight 790 and grained. What is the going price per pound?
Title: Re: What is the price per pound for a steer
Post by: chester on July 31, 2023, 09:37:18 AM: I just bought a half at 4$ idk if that’s the going rate or just my deal :dunno:
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Title: Re: What is the price per pound for a steer
Post by: Gringo31 on July 31, 2023, 10:21:59 AM: I can post what Toppenish Livestock sold on Thursday. These are live weight prices and if it says $100 or $105 that really means $1.00/pound or $1.05/pound. These are mostly dairy cull cow prices on the hoof. If you have hanging weight I'd double the price, plus your butcher fee then add the premium for a good steer vs an old dairy cow. .02

713 slaughter cows/bulls sold, market got a little stronger today…
Very best heavy hol cows $110-115, premiums to $122
Most good hol cows $100-109
Better lean/thin cows $95-105
Better jers cows $88-97
Better larger hol fdr hfrs $135-149
Title: Re: What is the price per pound for a steer
Post by: HUNTIN4SIX on July 31, 2023, 10:31:56 AM: I am hoping to sell 15-20 grain fattened steers this year. We sell half for $4 and whole for $3.5. Ours usually hang around 800lbs also. For friends maybe a little cheaper?
Title: Re: What is the price per pound for a steer
Post by: LastLookTaxidermy on July 31, 2023, 10:54:44 AM: Quote from: HUNTIN4SIX on July 31, 2023, 10:31:56 AM
I am hoping to sell 15-20 grain fattened steers this year. We sell half for $4 and whole for $3.5. Ours usually hang around 800lbs also. For friends maybe a little cheaper?

Could you message me with details? We have been doing the grass fed thing for a couple years now and decided we are ready for a little more marbling😄
Title: Re: What is the price per pound for a steer
Post by: Gringo31 on July 31, 2023, 01:13:21 PM: I'd just add that day old dairy/beef cross calves are $400-500 at day old.

This only happens when the growers can contract way out in advance meaning that high beef prices are here for awhile. I'd recommend having your freezers full sooner than later.
Title: Re: What is the price per pound for a steer
Post by: JohnVH on July 31, 2023, 01:59:10 PM: I sell mine $3/lb hanging, plus the cut and wrap fees the butcher charges. Grass fed Angus.
Title: Re: What is the price per pound for a steer
Post by: WSU on August 01, 2023, 09:52:33 AM: Thanks for the replies everyone!
Title: Re: What is the price per pound for a steer
Post by: westside bull on August 01, 2023, 11:55:46 AM: Quote from: Gringo31 on July 31, 2023, 01:13:21 PM
I'd just add that day old dairy/beef cross calves are $400-500 at day old.

This only happens when the growers can contract way out in advance meaning that high beef prices are here for awhile. I'd recommend having your freezers full sooner than later.
If this's the going rate wow. Back in the day I could get them for 25 - 40 at the Dairys.
Title: Re: What is the price per pound for a steer
Post by: HillHound on August 01, 2023, 01:32:30 PM: Yeah it’s crazy what they go for now. I remember hanging around to the end of the sale and you could pick up the scrawny ones nobody wanted for five dollars apiece. me and my brothers paid for our first vehicles raising those cheap bottle calves.
Title: Re: What is the price per pound for a steer
Post by: JohnVH on August 01, 2023, 01:46:35 PM: 4-500 for a day old seems insane, paid double that for an 1100lb steer
Title: Re: What is the price per pound for a steer
Post by: Caseyd on August 01, 2023, 03:13:21 PM: $4lb hanging. Then cut and wrap.
Title: Re: What is the price per pound for a steer
Post by: JohnVH on August 01, 2023, 03:18:04 PM: Quote from: Macs B on August 01, 2023, 02:26:14 PM
I'm pretty sure the OP isn't talking about some scraggly dairy bull at the sale barn. An apprx 800 pound hanging carcass is a good 1400+ pound fed beef, obviously ready for slaughter.

maybe, or its just that overpriced. Some people are overcharging. Definitely shop around.
Title: Re: What is the price per pound for a steer
Post by: HUNTIN4SIX on August 01, 2023, 04:06:16 PM: Quote from: JohnVH on August 01, 2023, 03:18:04 PM
Quote from: Macs B on August 01, 2023, 02:26:14 PM
I'm pretty sure the OP isn't talking about some scraggly dairy bull at the sale barn. An apprx 800 pound hanging carcass is a good 1400+ pound fed beef, obviously ready for slaughter.

maybe, or its just that overpriced. Some people are overcharging. Definitely shop around.

I think the OP was just asking what he should charge....maybe I’m not reading it right.
We haven’t seen nothing yet on high beef prices. Feedlot are buying 4,5, and 6 weight calves for over $3/lb on the hoof. Thinking of weaning mine early and sending them to the sale....
Inflation sucks, but sometimes folks forget to extend grace to the farmer and rancher when they are forced to feed their family and raise prices.
Title: Re: What is the price per pound for a steer
Post by: nwwanderer on August 02, 2023, 07:54:29 PM: Normal cull bulls hit $2800 at sale barns this week
Title: Re: What is the price per pound for a steer
Post by: BlackRiverTaxidermy on August 02, 2023, 08:24:47 PM: We just sold 1/4’s of beef, going rate is $3.50 per lb hanging weight, plus cut and wrap/slaughter fee. Price on the hoof at the sale barns are INCREDIBLE right now, up to 2.60-2.80 per pound!!! I remember a couple of years ago when good beef calves were 1.20 per pound on the hoof and that was considered high!!
Title: Re: What is the price per pound for a steer
Post by: JohnVH on August 02, 2023, 09:24:31 PM: Quote from: BlackRiverTaxidermy on August 02, 2023, 08:24:47 PM
We just sold 1/4’s of beef, going rate is $3.50 per lb hanging weight, plus cut and wrap/slaughter fee. Price on the hoof at the sale barns are INCREDIBLE right now, up to 2.60-2.80 per pound!!! I remember a couple of years ago when good beef calves were 1.20 per pound on the hoof and that was considered high!!

Not on the west side, just check the auction report from today, highest paid was $1.60/lb, and thats higher than normal.
Title: Re: What is the price per pound for a steer
Post by: Sneaky Squirrel on August 03, 2023, 07:37:38 AM: Quote from: JohnVH on August 02, 2023, 09:24:31 PM
Quote from: BlackRiverTaxidermy on August 02, 2023, 08:24:47 PM
We just sold 1/4’s of beef, going rate is $3.50 per lb hanging weight, plus cut and wrap/slaughter fee. Price on the hoof at the sale barns are INCREDIBLE right now, up to 2.60-2.80 per pound!!! I remember a couple of years ago when good beef calves were 1.20 per pound on the hoof and that was considered high!!

Not on the west side, just check the auction report from today, highest paid was $1.60/lb, and thats higher than normal.

I would find a new sales barn if I was you and you were trying to sale..... $1.60 is low right now for feeder calves.

What auction report are you looking at? At Chehalis, 5 weights your getting $2 a lb. Better ones are fetching close to $2.50 a lb.
Title: Re: What is the price per pound for a steer
Post by: Mudman on August 03, 2023, 08:37:50 AM: Yes Westside. Feedlot @ $3lb is true. Beef is gonna be $$ at stores for a bit. Like it wasnt already. We have help (friend) with farm raised steer so that is still best way to go if ya can swing it. After all cost I average $4.25lb in freezer. Raised/fed what I want grain finish grass fed Angus beef.
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