Cull Cows

I always have to laugh when I read articles like this one: (warning: if you are not in the cattle business, this article will have no interest for you)

HUNTIN' DAYLIGHT -- BOOSTING RETURNS WITH CULL COWS

Why do I laugh at this article though? It tells you the advantages of not selling your cull cows in the fall and holding them. WHY DO YOU THINK I SELL MY CULL COWS IN MAY OR JUNE INSTEAD OF IN THE FALL LIKE THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE. To take advantage of the market conditions that prevail.

In the fall most everybody sells so the market is depressed. Feed the cull cows cheap feed all winter, then sell them when barbecue season is starting up and the spread in price more than pays for the feed you put in them. This is not rocket science. Why more people don't do it is beyond me. My dad always done it this way since he started running cattle and I just keep up the tradition but the reasons stay the same, better money for your cull cows.

The only bad thing about this article is that the more people realize that it works this way, the more people might sell in the spring and then start depressing cow sales in the spring. So I guess I shouldn't laugh, it's just screwing up my market. Oh well, that's the way the tumbleweed rolls.

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous. Jacques Derrida