Clearing House | Selling Steers
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2019
- We sell the beef steers as well as the holsteins that we bought last August and bottle raised!
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How Farms Work by Ryan Kuster is a CZcams channel based in rural Potosi, Wisconsin.
Our mission is to teach those who didn't grow up on a farm what the farming life is like.
These videos show the Kuster family working together raising cattle and crops. We believe everyone who wants to know more about farming should be able to share the farming experience with us and we look to educate the world on many essential agriculture topics.
How Farms Work takes place on ~1,100 acres with around 75-200 cattle at any given time. Four John Deere tractors are currently used on the farm, which are a 4020, 4640, 7600, and 8235R.
Having a turning tub and a loading runway would sure help you load your cattle. I've had great luck with using a cattle field panel inside the stock trailer nailed down to the wooden floor. Gives the cattle great traction and you dont have to worry about them falling.
Ryan, I'm glad you like the Rattle Paddle! Thank you for the shout out. Another great video.
Seen those but never tried one... I think I'll have to get one and try them out. We usually just grab a bunch of spare 4-5 foot long pieces of leftover 1/2-3/4 PVC pipe for cattle prods, though we do have a hot shot to zap them to get them to take that last jump into the trailer when they get balky... a little zap to the butt gets them moving pretty quick.
Later! OL J R :)
Lol doggy in the truck bed at 6:33
Off to tractor supply for a new fender... got a little welding project there to fix it.
Never fails, have a load of calves on the trailer, is when the trailer tire will decide to crap out. Never seems to happen when it's empty on the way back or just moving the trailer between farms or whatever. I had one do that about 3/4 of the way to the auction barn 110 miles away, I just kept going running on the strings (bias tires have strings instead of the steel belt wires). It made it, then I drove back about 20 miles to Shiner to try to get a tire, nobody had one, so I had to drive another 15 miles to Hallettsville before I could find a place that actually had tires and could put on a new set for me. The old tires were just that-- OLD, and had dried out and cracked enough that they finally just tossed the tread right off the carcass... Luckily it didn't wipe out the fender like on yours, though.
Later! OL J R :)
I still have my grandfathers old cane that had in the dairy barn for whenever I borught the cows into the barn
Miss seeing that old barn in ur newer vids
Awesome video Ryan! Thanks for sharing the process with us. Y'all run a great system!
Looks like that cattle trailer has seen better days
Great video Ryan....thanks! Love the channel.
Great Work ✌🏻😊
Great vid Ryan thanks..
Always looking forward to new videos
Thanks Tim!
Like the video Ryan on Clearing house .
Makes me smile. Typical holsteins bunch up behind trailer. Beef run right in. At least that's what I've experienced.
Hi Ryan, just an idea, would you consider making an informative video about your animal husbandry? E.g. when you buy, how many, for how much, when do you sell them, for how long you have them, etc. I'd like to watch it :) Anyway good luck on your operation
Vít Petřík that’s on the agenda, I’ve got one coming out talking about the truck soon
@@HowFarmsWork If you did make a video with that information, can you link it here please.
First! I think you are awesome Ryan! I’ve lived on a dairy farm for
32 years and seeing another’s farmers struggles and successes makes me sympathize towards you. Been watching since 2000 subs. Cheers!
Thanks!
Great video Ryan love your videos and channel bin watching u for a few years now
Holstein ground beef ranked #2 at previous Nebraska tests( just behind Hereford). Other cuts didn’t fare as well. The hamburger is delicious 😋.
Nice video Ryan! We have always had the rattle paddles, they are awesome!! An effective method for us, is to put it in the air, then just twist it with your hand. Or just put the tip of your boot up, and hit the tip of your boot with it.
2 years ago I was averaging $4.00 per kg live weight for my Holstein steers, this year a drought year 50c per kg live weight. I’m holding onto mine until 600 kg this season, where as I’d normally sell at 200kg.
It's sunny, so planting must be done! :)
If you keep adding cattle your gonna have to find a slotside trailer for your semi ....
Being able to ‘mooooooove’ out of the way is always a good idea. Ya did make me smile with ya pun.
Hi Ryan a great video I enjoyed watching
Good video
Have you ever heard of a wick system for killing in row weeds? It goes on the bar of your cultivator and it is basically a sponge full of weed killer and it applies by rubbing against the taller weeds. I'm glad you still have the JCB, my Grandpa didn't want one for years because he had a loader on his tractor until the tractor broke and he had to borrow the neighbors skidsteer. Bought one brand new and loved it.
Great content, getting too the point your gonna need a cattle pot for big red too pull around!!!
Great vid Ryan! Stay safe 👍👍
Got some pretty cattle btw🙂
Ryan we use cattle rods sometimes and sometimes we use horses and ropes to sort cattle
Great vid an awsome quality .. crystal clear an made feel like I was right there .. did u get a new camera or something lol.. keep em coming enjoy ur vids muchly
You always make me homesick for the Old Farm Life. Have you given any thought to getting a trailer for Big Red to haul cattle?
Hey Ryan!!
Hey Darrin, how are we today?
Cool
We had the same tire tread blow on our trailer
How ya doin hope u get a good profit from the cattle
Time for some Hankook F19 trailer tires.
Best trailer tires we’ve run, run them on our livestock trailer that’s been all over the Midwest and is now on its second set, and replaced the crappy tires that came on our Bobcat/ equipment trailer that gets used a lot shuffling between two farms.
In the long run do you really make a profit on the cattle since you raise them as calfs? It would be interesting to see with the cost of buying the calf and all meds and food involved.
colemanerik a healthy calf should not need to many meds we do not do it to much with are young stock
We made SO much more as cow/calf producers (Mommas have babies, raise them to 500-700 lbs, then sell the calves, wash, rinse, repeat) than row crops we finally quit row cropping altogether back in about 2003... a LOT less costs raising cattle than row crops-- seed, fertilizer, and chemicals have all gotten STUPID expensive over the last 20 years or so. Once you own the momma cows and a bull, and grazing your own land and baling your own hay, the costs per head are REALLY low, compared to row crop expenses...
Later! OL J R :)
Cool...
Hey ryan ! great vid ! at the end of your video... how did you create a thing like that with ( thanks for watching...
Holstein's are getting harder and harder to find in my area , and like them so much better to raise for my freezer.
Why's that??? is that meat that much better?? Curious... we don't see hardly any Holstein's in our area, because there's very little dairy in this part of the world (farmers producing milk/cream for the Blue Bell Ice Cream plant are the notable exception, but that's nearly 100 miles north, so not here). We still raise white-faced Herefords-- we always have and I just find the Herefords are usually more gentle and calm and easier to handle. Buyers are in love with the black hides (Angus) but I've seen a LOT of squirrelly Angus cattle, and I don't like that-- I'm getting too old for that sh!t... Angus seem pretty calm if you handle them a lot, BUT when they're just out on pasture most of the time, it's a different story. Oh well, more power to 'em...
Later! OL J R :)
That tire looks perfectly fine I'd say it has another 50 years on er
One week later... "Oops!"
@@MatthewHoag77 It was still round and held air-- "It'll be alright"...
I had a 20 inch truck tire on an old cotton wagon do that one time, one of the old bias tires that had cotton strings in the carcass under the tread, not steel belted wires... Course it threw the tread about 2-3 miles from the farm on the way to the cotton gin... When I rolled in at the gin, some of the guys were laughing because there were strings flopping everywhere like an old rag mop as the tire rolled, but hey, it was still round and held air and it still rolled, so "keep calm and carry on"... Heck I even pulled it back to the farm empty like that after they ginned the cotton off it the next day, so I could change the tire under the shade tree rather than in 95+ degree heat and full sun in the gin yard...
Just keep rolling LOL:) OL J R :)
I just sold last years calves and averaged $1.28/pound - angus.
Great video Ryan bye you a bull save you in the long run be safe
Get a Milwaukee cordless impact they are the best things ever things you can’t get with a Johnson bar you can get with it
Robert Mcnevin I brought my personal M18 impact to work one day to change hay mower blades because I hated the corded impact we used.... my Boss saw that and bought one next week for the farm! Get the M18 grease gun and now you’re set!
Make more videos about cettle!
Heck I'd run that tire another trip or two. :)
So how did you fare as far as net profit? Sale price vs. what you spent in feed and care? Just curios as to how well it went, maybe a future endeavor. Nice video as always... Check out 10th generation dairyman. Young man reminds me a lot of you Ryan when you started.
About time for a new cattle trailer. Rust Bucket!
Bradley Smith time to go aluminum! Our Featherlite is 15 years old and still looks and works like it’s new. And it sits outside. Just give it an acid bath every year or two.
I’ve got a Featherlite that was new in 93 and still is in great shape
Hi Ryan
Hey!
I was starting to think you wellies in the States with yourself, Travis and Zack (MFer) all wearing work boots when in wet, muddy and mucky places which if I do I end up with wet or mucky legs up up to my knees but seeing your dad their are some sensible farmers 😁
SJ K Surprised Zach can be bothered to get his work boots dirty
@@johnmayer7410 it doesn't me I more surprised he doesn't have two pairs one for getting dirty and farming and another for filming and advertisment purposes. 😁
It's called a sorting stick
Lucky 13
You picked a bad time of year to sell . Anything after mid May you take a beating . At least that’s the case around here . If you don’t wanna mess with a bull AI is a good option . 👍
Amigo, esse seu reboque transporta quantos bezerro iguais às esse do vídeo?
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howdy
@@Mr.Badger69 ✌
Would it be easier to move the cattle if you had a ramp on that trailer?
I sold two Holstein steers for 2500. Weighed 1247 for both
Rosa The German Shepard here we sell a 800 pound black angus steer for 1800 each.
What is the white powder that you put in the trailer?
Gotta sell so he can buy that JCB
Brasil aqui
Did the tire rip the fender off or was it already like that ?
Johnny Essick it was damaged so they cut it off
@13:50 what’s the green sprayer for in the background
Dang ripped half the fender off
Just curious on the loading of the cows. I was listening to how many you were putting in there but you had stopped after 7. So if you were to take the same size cows, How many can fit in the trailer to be loaded full?
What bulls are you using on your cattle
I'm literally watching how farms work at 4 AM!
Can you do a 8 Howe video on you farm plz
Do you guys rent the skid loader or was it bought? What’s msrp on that bad boy I like it!!
Get a pig whip when handlings cattle it does hurt them just gets them moving
You should put a "How farms work" decal on the side of your cows, see if that drives up the price. 😁😂😂
OMG, thats funny about the weed finder as i Emailed The Gates Foundation about 8yrs ago to say for their Change the World projects that is it possible with visual recognition software and droid technology to make a self propelled machine that sees weeds and kills them (spray or even pull it out) so it's funny to see variations of this concept. missed my chance tho, lol.
Next step for drones....
Later! OL J R :)
Maybe the next time you sell some steers. You can go to a jeweler to pick out a ring for Jamie. You guys keep up the good work.
Ryan you should really look into AI heifers . It could be less expensive in the long run of purchasing a bull. Just a idea
What do you use for bedding in the trailer?
Lime with wood shavings
Hi
We're chopping silage right now. 🙂
But yesterday I accidentally got my pitchfork to the foot. 😢 Now I'm restricted to tractors.
Here in the states everyone just planted and won't chop silage until early September
Finland farming we just chopped haylage
Ok I see
what are the pros and cons to finishing them yourself than selling them at the weight they are right now?
When we bring this year’s calves off pasture in the fall we won’t have room for them and we don’t have any more corn to feed them
sure a nice sire could cost $3000-$5000 but you can sell him again for that same price without trouble once you’re done with him
Can you really get the same money you paid out of a bull after breeding him to your herd? I would think the more he breeds the more chance he has for getting injured or losing his touch.
Do you plan on fixing the barn roof? We are losing those old barns left and right here in Michigan. Hate to see it collapse.
It’s already on it’s way down, it’s not worth putting money into it to keep it from falling over unfortunately so we’re talking about taking it down before it falls over on its own
How Farms Work Bummer! Keep doing what you’re doing!
Man can things ever go sour we have had bulls break threw pens. And we had one bull that dad says shoulda been shot at birth he was wild and we couldnt get him in a corral without him breaking it. And the way our corrals are the barn is right beside them..... welp he got on our barn roof to put it simply
We had a bull calf like that, couldn't get him within 100 yards of the loading pens, one time we did he busted through a hay storage pen into the loading pen. Called the vet out, had the vet dart him with a tranquilizer gun, loaded him up and hauled him to the sale with his head lashed to the side wall of the trailer to keep him from jumping out. Got to the sale barn, the gal wrote our name and info on the ticket and jumped up on the trailer to put the sale glue-on tags on his back-- she put the glue on the tag and smacked it down on his back, he let out this horrible caterwaul beller and stomped around and literally bent his neck so far back he was staring down his own back, I thought for sure he'd break his own neck! She jumped off the trailer wide-eyed and said to me in a scared voice, "that ain't no Mad Cow is it??" (referring to mad cow disease). "No ma'am", I said, "He's just p!ssed off!"
Now he was a nice 800-900 pound calf-- we'd tried for the two previous times we'd sold to get him in to the trailer and to the auction, but couldn't get him. We didn't go to the sale, I just picked up the check a few days later, and he ended up selling for about 40 cents a pound.... I was shocked. I don't know though if the d@mn crazy thing charged into the auction ring and stomped a cowhand to death, or ran into the wall at a full gallop and broke his own neck, or what... I've seen flighty cattle like that do some REALLY stupid stuff over the years... ram the auction ring and split their heads wide open, blood going everywhere, all kinds of stupid stuff... Heck even the Texas Tech Red Rider (she rides a horse from one end of the stadium to the other at every touchdown, and gallops in ahead of the team as they come on the field before the game and at halftime) had a well-trained horse go nuts, toss the rider off, and run into a concrete wall at full speed and break its own neck years ago (back in the late 90's when my sister was in college there). SO I don't know what happened, or if he was just SO nuts nobody wanted him.... Heck for all I know he busted loose and they shot him and pushed him into a manure pile and just wrote me a check for 40 cents a pound to give me something and get me out of their hair... Oh well...
Neighbor of ours had a cow like that, they sold their herd down to get rid of them and never could get this one cow into the pen or trailer, so they finally decided to just shoot her, butcher her, and put her in the freezer. She was a flightly, squirrely cow and so they just went down there with a 30-30, shot her, and picked her up with the front end loader to bleed her out, skin her, and butcher her. They cut up the meat and put it in the freezer, and noticed the meat was awfully "dark"... When his Dad started cooking some of the meat, it was SO stinky and strong that it tasted terrible. They tried several different cuts thinking maybe it was just one part, but ALL the meat stank and was rank, so they finally just emptied the rest of the meat into the truck and tossed it out in the draw for the coyotes and buzzards to clean up... She was SO flighty she was a "dark cutter", which is basically when a really squirrelly cow or bull is SO pumped up on adrenaline that the meat just stinks, is really dark, and tastes terrible, and no cooking technique can fix it... He told me they ever get one like that again, they'll just put a bullet in it and leave it for the coyotes and buzzard bait-- not worth the time or effort to try to butcher it...
Whatever you do, don't let the d@mn thing breed-- they pass on those genetics and then you'll have a whole yard full of flightly, nervous cattle to deal with... what's worse, when one gets flighty, it gets all the others stirred up due to the "herd instinct"... It's like they see one flighty one, and the rest think, "Hey, (s)he's worked up, must be something to it-- I better get worked up too!" No good at all. I'm STILL dealing with the aftermath of a neighbor's big old Charolais bull that broke through the fence onto our place a few years ago, and the stupid neighbor took months before he finally came and got him... He was looking for me to load him up and bring him back, but h3ll I went and and ran mine up to his pen and loaded it up in my trailer and brought it home when it broke through a weak fence the previous year, so I figured he could d@mn well do the same... IN the meantime he ate a lot of our hay, but he also sired a lot of really nice calves... including the "p!ssed off" one mentioned previously... and some of those heifers were nice and I kept them for replacement cows, but the problem is, they're all pretty flighty-- more than I like to see or deal with, so I've been culling them as much as I can as I go... Believe me you don't want that crap on your place-- not worth the time or effort to deal with....
Later! OL J R :)
@@lukestrawwalker yep its best to sell em before they breed can mess up good genetics. We had a freckle face cow good cow to get hit by lightning after that she was wild i mean wild u couldnt get within 20 yards of her. That bull that got on our barn we ended up keeping him for years he was ok but he was wild in corrals well we had a cow in heat and we managed to get her and him in at the same time so he was neck deep sniffin her arse and got then in the trailer only 2 we put in the trailer to lol. Well we just slammed the door shut as he tried escaping and he put a dent in the door. And when we let him go at the sale he jumped out of the trailer went insane and ran full bore into a metal fence and broke and bent the beams while gettin trapped in it. That was when we put the only tag in him that he ever had
My family in Michigan just had to sell off their dairy cows. They got 17cents a pound!! Sad.
That is sad! Really hate to see that with the high cost of beef!
Jerseys?
@@America-First2024 mostly Holstein, and Holstein/Swiss crosses.
GOAT669
My Dad had Guernsey cows. Selling calves for $.60-.80/pound. He researched the genetics. Blonde d'Aquitaine bull increased the price of his calves to $1.20-1.40/pound.
Not sure if that is something your family could do? Might be another option versus selling the herd.
I truly appreciate your concern. Dairy farmers are getting nailed right now. But all the cows are already gone. It's just one of those things.
Did the loose tread tear the fender off?
Damaged it pretty bad
Buy a bull Ryan!!!
Ryan was that tire that blew, was it a Firestone? They had big problems!
Says it’s a Hankook
New trailer in your future?
If your wet hay is ready to bail and it rains on it how long would a guy have to wait for good hay?
Depends... Some guys don't mind a bit if they get a LITTLE shower or rain on hay RIGHT AFTER it's been cut. They say it actually IMPROVES the hay-- washes off dust and "softens" the hay a bit. BUT, the longer after it's been cut, the worse rain will damage the hay. Of course the more rain you get, the more damage you get.
The biggest thing with rained on hay is to PRESERVE the maximum amount of quality and quantity you possibly can, to MINIMIZE the damage... You want to ted the hay out, fluff it up, get it up off the ground and fluffed up so air and sunshine can dry it out as soon as practical... BUT you don't want to handle it any more than necessary, particularly once they hay has been cut for several days and is pretty well cured and dried down... the more you handle dry hay, the greater the dry matter losses (lower yield). SO if rain is still around and likely, its often better to just let it set til you have a couple good drying and baling days rather than fluff it up just to get it washed flat again by another storm... but you don't want it laying wet flat on the ground any longer than possible, because mold and bacteria and other fungi will start deteriorating it badly...
Once you get it fluffed, let it dry out then rake it, preferably while it's still a little "tough" (not *quite* dry enough to bale, but close, so that the hay can handle being moved without all the leaves crumbling or falling off, to minimize dry matter losses), then let it finish curing in the windrow til it's dry enough to bale, then get it baled up ASAP, let the bales go through a final "sweat" in the field for a couple days (for round bales) to allow any final moisture to work its way out, then stack it in the barn or under cover....
Later! OL J R :)
What is the stuff you pouring in the trailer at 2:25 - 2:51
Lime and woodchips
Saw a line-item on your settlement sheet... they charged you like $8.00 for feed at the auction? So if you told your livestock NOT to eat anything during the sale, they’d waive that fee?
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Nope... just part of the deal when you sell through a sale barn. They have a blanket umbrella "yardage and fees" line item, but they also tack on charges for feed, insurance, brand inspections, you name it. Then of course Uncle Sam gets his dollar-per-head charge for "beef promotion" to pay for all those stupid commercials on TV (beef-- it's what's for dinner" and to pay for junkets around the world for "industry bigwigs" and to keep fatcats on the National Cattleman's Beef Association or whatever they call it in big cushy offices, lobbying politicians, flying all over the world to rub elbows with other fatcats, and generally inventing new ways to screw over the small local farmers and make their lives more difficult... ) Same thing with row crops or grain-- every "commodity" or crop or livestock has it's own "promotion board" and they get their cut at sale time, for grain or cotton it's usually like about one percent (one cent per dollar on the sale amount) which goes to the soybean board, the corn board, the cotton board, the wheat board, the pork promotion, whatever... all just typical politicians with their hands in your pockets, producing NOTHING of any value to the farmers...
Back in the 70's, you COULD write in to the board and request a refund, and they had to give it to you, if you jumped through the hoops to get it. Nowdays, they've done away with the refund provisions, so they just take your money and run with it... It's not usually enough to get excited about, but it's the principle of the thing I disagree with. At least the sale barn is providing services for the yardage, fees, and commission they charge...
Later! OL J R :)
Is there a dairy near you ?
Larry Ross I think there would be.
You guys keep the steers? Are you guys a dairy?
Those calves were about 650 lbs +-
Do you sell at auctions because it's easier or are there not that many options for private sales?
Easier, and typically gets you a better price at those weights I think.
Why is Travis wearing a winter coat in June and your wearing short sleeves
Travis wear the coat for when the poo starts flying ?
It was a chilly morning but a hot afternoon
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Ty. Sir
So on the 3400 how much would you say you made on it profit wise? Including purchase price and whatnot?
Those were cattle I bred so the only expenses I had were feed, which I paid for by working for the farm. The vet bill was a few hundred
How Farms Work appreciate the reply!
What is going on with the Tele-skid? It has been over a month since you had it. Did you end up buying it?
It’s on the farm until further notice
@@HowFarmsWork, is it a lease now as your over the 30 days or a rent to buy type of deal.
Sell the steers; find a good bull to breed the cows and heifers, onward and upward! That's what it's all about in the beef cattle business. Keep those lady Anguses fat and happy.
Ryan I have a guy that has a bull cheap
Why don't you finish the steers? Looks like you have a pretty good lot for it.
Out of corn and they wouldn’t be finished out by the time we need to get this year’s calves in them
Chris Tessmer Holstein steer take a lot more feed to finish than normal beef breeds. But you can buy them for less.
Can you do rewind to here’s to the farmer buy luke Bryan