Selling Our Beef calves at Auction, Did we make the right choice?
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- We follow our calves to Coalgate sale yards to see them get sold and find out what they made.
My Name is Alistair Bird and My wife Genna and I farm on 'The Grange" near Oxford, North Canterbury, in the South Island of New Zealand.
Join me as I document our daily life bringing you the highs and lows on a New Zealand Sheep and Beef farm.
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Mail: 211 Ashley Gorge Road, Oxford, New Zealand. 7495
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Great Video Alistair, things have changed from my canterbury days when most stock was sold in addington, nice to catch up with your guys again. thanks for sharing
You pair are hilarious at the end of the video 😁😁
Hehe thanks.
Nice coffee and chocolate cake, ❤👀.
Enjoyed
Hi I like your video
I wrote the LivestockEye report on that calf sale and things had certainly come back from the previous week. I always enjoy seeing your names on the catalogue.
Don’t worry Genna, I had a dog very innocently break my nose too. The resetting process was much worse than the actual accident
Ohh hopefully her nose doesn't need setting. It's nice to see your name on the reports. It's the risk of auctions I suppose 🤷♂️
Ouch Fi! 🙊
Lee's Valley that brings back memories of my army days in the 70s, I broke a axle in my new Land Rover during a reconnaissance operation for a battalion exserice, very very hard country. 😊.
Yep its tough country but Sure is nice in there tho.
Best place in the world
Thought I recognised Coalgate in the first instance. A few years ago I sold my 3 two and a half year old mixed dairy steers for $1500 each there. I have since been told that was a good season. Lucky me.
That's some good prices there. Well done.
Nice video loving the footage and I like the detail you go into it very educational
Have a good one and look forward to next one 🇿🇦
Thanks very much Kyle
Always enjoy your videos, the scenery and the content was great.
Thank you.
nice video. In Idaho USA i contracted my 625lb steers for 1.85 per pound, which converts to $2077 NZD These calves will have 3 different vaccines 3 weeks before being sold. Sounds like we are similar to Australian prices. My 550 lb heifers $1.70 480 lb steers $2 and 450 lb heifers $1.85 I ship on the last day of this month.
Nice, Thats some good prices, Are you happy with that money?
@@kiwifarmernz Yes. However, it's only .20 higher than last years prices. Fuel has more than doubled and everything else has gone up significantly. Ranching overall is a tough business to be in so I do a little fence work and real estate on the side.
@@westonandelin4556 yep I hear you. Got to try and make a dollar where ever you can
See your prices about exactly the same as here in SA. R37 ish per kg here now, not the 42 from a couple months back but still good compared to previous years. We'll also be selling our steers in the next little while, prices should go up here once the guys start harvesting corn... Great video. Thanks!
SA?
@@deedawson6074 South Africa
Good luck for your upcoming sales.
interesting, also hope the eye gets better
We made the switch to Coalgate (1st calf sale) for our calves this year - no regrets. I find the canterbury markets are resonably efficient so choice of sale yards for us come down to shipping distance / costs and whether we wish to have a much longer day in Christchurch.
Yep I agree. For me it's what agent firm you wish to use. Thanks for watching.
Brother thank you for showing us auction place. Days of Money making and paying bills... Wish that lady should recover soon. Ram from 🇮🇳 India
Thanks Ram. She is on the mend.
@@kiwifarmernz take care of her
Great video Alastair your right at least you didn’t bring any home that’s sales for you up and down prices 👌
Here in Suffolk Virginia USA I took a few dairy beef crosses that weight 700 pounds got 1.65 a pound . Here your cattle has to be black or black white face to get any money for them. Taking 3 more in a month or so
Thanks for the comparison Noah. I was wondering how the prices were over in the states.
The price definitely went up for hoilstiens steers you get 80 to 90 cents depending upon how good they look
Eed to put ur wife on more she's so funny
I have no idea what the exchange rate is for the euro at the moment but you won't get the colour of that for Angus calves over here €2.50 a kilo would be the best you could expect.
Just checked it out, a dollar is €0.6 so the equivalent would be c. €4.50 a kilo so about 950 a head and considering we are in spring and you are facing into winter I would think you didn't do to badly, 4 little Angus bullocks sold in Blessington mart on Thursday 275kg for €680 and they were carrying no flesh by comparison. The problem with them was they were next years cattle and with the price of fertiliser and meal people are nervous about things. Cattle over 500kg are a flying trade but they are this years cattle and never has that made such a difference as this spring.
Thanks for the comparison. So interesting to see how the increased costs are effecting farmers around the world.
farmers paying retail ..... selling wholesale. The auction process is a little different up here in Canada. Good looking cattle!
Thanks for watching. Yep and transport both ways.
Mam are your cattle sooooo cheap.Here in Gippsland Australia your cattle would have made between $7.60 to $8.20 per kg.Friend brought weaners steers for $2200 weighing 280 kg.Cattle have to be in the yards over 8 hours to be weighted.Heifers are making as much as steers,as breeder cattle in massive demand. Great video for me to see prices.
wow those prices are crazy. Is that due to rebuilding numbers after the drought?
@@kiwifarmernz Yes big shortage still of cattle, but my friend had some 3yr old bullocks weighing 420 to 440 over the hooks and averaged just on $3700 ,so even prime cattle are selling well.Alot of money tied up in cattle. Same here people prefer Angus.Keep the great videos going,really enjoy them.Keeps me in contact with home,although I came from Matamata.
“…pregnancy testing… 😳 …none of that kind of talk thank you!… “🤭 🤣
Good video. As an Aussie farmer I'm just curious as to why 230kg weaners are making about $800 to $900 over there when we're paying up to $2,000/hd for them here. I realize the feedlots are under pinning things here but there has to be more to it.
Hi David. Good question. I feel like there are a couple of buyers underpinning the price here and a lot of the south island cattle will end up in a feed lot here. I will have to ask around to get a better answer.
@@kiwifarmernz Thanks for your reply. I should have added that restockers have also pushed the price of weaners up to record price's as well. $6 to $8 a live weight kilo is now standard. I just assumed you blokes were getting the same money we are. Cheers
Stick with quad or side by side Gemma. Horses way too dangerous 😂
I reckon! Should've seen my face a week ago. I wasn't even riding him when it happened 🙈
Why does it take so many auctioneers to see the cattle??
There is one who is calling the auction, 2 looking out for bids, one operating the camera for online bidding and the others just want to stand above the commoners in the yards. (joking on that last one)
Here in Ireland there is only 1 auctioneer on at a time selling and looking for bids with an assistant doing the administration. I wouldn't want to be paying the auctioneers fees needed to cover all the others wages too. 🤣
What is the optimum cow size in your part of the world?
Our breeding cows are around 600 kg. This is good for us as they are not too big to move around the steep hills. Our aim to have an average weaning weight of 250kg.
As a dairy and beef farmer it's always disappointing when cattle don't make as much as you think they'll make.your at the mercy of buyers and on the day.cause you put a year or so into calves up to that age
Yep it is frustrating but we have a simple system for our cattle, so it's a bit of a trade off. Thanks for watching.
@@kiwifarmernz your putting out alot of good viewing to us..kept up the good work .Greetings from an Irish lad who hopefully will get to your beautiful country someday .
@@markredmond987 thank you. Just need to get the word out and grow the channel. Keep us in mind if you ever get over here.
@@kiwifarmernz should have done it in my 20 s.3 small kid.dairy farming makes it hard to get to do these trips..but I'll kept the dream alive..
What sort of dorn do use
Dorn?
@@kiwifarmernz I’ve no idea either!🤔
I think he means Corn?
Drone ?
calves that make 250kg would be 1800-2200$$$
Where abouts are you. Aus?
@@kiwifarmernz mid north coast NSW Gloucester area
@@ozlakota1 you guys seem to be getting good money for your cattle.
@@kiwifarmernz 3kplus for cows calves4 k for Angus
loi not mee
Always good to clarify things 😆