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300 Brangus Cows with 180 calves

 at Cattleman's Brenham Livestock Auction on

Monday, May 12th

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UPCOMING...Equipment Sale...Saturday, May 17th, 10 A.M.

Sealy Livestock Auction

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Port City names NEW GENERAL MANAGER for its Sealy operations

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CATTLEMAN'S

BRENHAM LIVESTOCK AUCTION

Jointly owned and operated by Port City and the Schwartz Family of Brenham, Texas.

Sales every Monday

Hogs at 9:30AM  and  Cattle at 12:00 PM 

MARKET REPORT FOR MONDAY,

 May 5, 2008

 Click Here for USDA Weighted Average Summary for Texas Auctions

FEEDER STEERS & HEIFERS sold on an active market and sold mostly steady with last  week's trade.  The calf market has turned very selective and any animal with a short tail, rupture, short, or any other condition is severely discounted.   The lighter muscled, plainer kinds  of  calves  and yearlings sold $60-$80.00 on the heavier weights and $80.00-$100.00/cwt on the lighter weights.

 

SLAUGHTER COWS & BULLS sold on  a some what  active market and sold mostly $1.00-2.00 higher, spots $3.00 higher than last week's trade.  The bulk of the cows traded were top cutter-utility cows with better than average weigh-ups.  Bulls were in modest supply but with several top end kinds.       

SLAUGHTER COWS

SHELLY CANNER $20.00 $33.00
CANNER 33.00 43.00
CUTTER 42.00 52.00
UTILITY 51.00 59.00
FEW LOW YIELDING Uts   0
FEW HIGH YIELDING Uts    
     

St        STOCKER      

COWS        
Few Choice Pairs None Offered
Few Medium Pairs to $850.00
Few Bred Cows $625.00 $725.00

 

SLAUGHTER BULLS

YIELD GRADE 1-2 $61.00 $69.00
HIGH YIELDING INDIVIDUALS one to $71.50
LOWER YIELDING $55.00 $62.00

 

FEEDER CATTLE & CALVES

  MED/LARGE FRAME MED/LARGE FRAME
  #1 MUSCLING  STEERS 10% OF STEERS #2 - #3 MUSCLING STEERS   75% OF STEERS
200-300# $110.00 $155.00 $100.00 $110.00
300-400# 105.00 120.00 102.50 112.50
400-500# 100.00 115.00 85.00 100.00
500-600#  92.50 110.00 82.50 92.00
600-700# 90.00 102.50 80.00 90.00

 

 

  MED/LARGE FRAME- MED/LARGE FRAME
  #1 MUSCLING  HEIFERS 10% OF HEIFERS #2 - #3 MUSCLING HEIFERS-- 75% OF HEIFERS
200-300# $115.00 $135.00 $95.00 $115.00
300-400# 100.00 115.00 85.00 100.00
400-500# 97.50 110.00 82.50 92.50
500-600# 95.00 100.00 80.00 95.00
600-700# 90.00 95.00 75.00 85.00
         
Replacement Females        $85.00- $120.00             

 

HOG MARKET REPORT

 

PACKER BARROWS & GILTS on few numbers the barrows and gilts were $5.00 to $6.00 higher than last week's trade indicating a local market demand.  A few pickem type top weights went to $54.00.

1-2 GRADE 230-260# $45.00 $48.50
2-3 GRADE 225-275# 43.00 45.00
3-4 GRADE 225-275# 40.00 43.00

 

PACKER SOWS Traded mostly steady with last week's trade.

1-2 GRADE 550-700# $18.00 $20.00
2-3 GRADE 350-500# 16.00 18.00
3-4 GRADE 250-500# 13.00 16.00

BOARS (300-700#) sold steady with last  week's trade.   Most of the larger boars sold $5.00-10.00 by the head.

LIGHT WEIGHT BOARS sold steady at $8.50-15.00

FEEDER & SLAUGHTER PIGS  on few numbers, sold steady when compared to the  last week.

1-2 GRADE 40-80# $45.00 $55.00
2-3 GRADE 40-80# 40.00 45.00
3-4 GRADE 40-80# 35.00 40.00

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