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Central SD Farmer and Rancher

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Guessing around 100%, most ending up in your Mickey D’s bag in the drive thru.

[Lauren Urbanczyk - Texas Hedge Risk Management @laurenpayne2012]

Anybody know what the death loss has been for Mexican cattle for the past 18 months?

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@farmerjim13 Ours are the older version, not super helpful I suppose. But seed tube module works. Have to think it’s likely the same. Ag leader on JD here

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Wrapped up winter wheat harvest this week and planting double crop corn. Copying those Brazilians with their Safrinha or whatever they call it.

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@TheGrainiac Easy, it simply depends on if it’s with or against my position in either the cash or futures market. Next question.

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Selling calves 1/30/26 in Ft Pierre. Big load of steers usually weigh~750, small ~670. Still a nice load of heifers as well. Package deal of CharX, as well as smaller calves.

Full vacc program. Weaned 75 days.

Hope you take a look, DM with any ?’s.

Thanks!

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@tpotwilson

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By far the best calf shelters we’ve found so far. Easy for cow and calf to see each other, move with your loader tractor. Plus they double as a windbreak on a day like today.

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@Chris1009 @MasonMayer26 Opening a couple gates and chopping ice would probably have gotten her farther than a cap and coffee mug.

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@tpotwilson By far the best we’ve found, calves use them quick. Mom likes it because she can smell calf right there. Pipe across middle section and on top to pick up with loader bucket

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@bl_ag_inc The thing that the multiple small unit proponents have overlooked imo is that the cost for the tech to run this won’t be significantly higher on a 4WD and DB90 as it would a 6R and 6 row. Multiple units will make that price tag higher

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@rfenner51 @BradyD78 When you put 1000 sep hrs on a machine/year and get paid by the acre you don’t screw around. Lots of acres to spread it over.

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@mbacowboy Of course, throw in a few regional differences and it’s clear as mud. Would there happen to be a recording of one of your presentations a guy could watch/listen to?

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@Doug_Severson Straight pipe on the 1066 would fix it

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@Doug_Severson #shortearszn watched someone pull 2 shorteared ones off a load of 855’s in kimball today. Guessing they can’t hear a feed wagon or something like that

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@Doug_Severson I used all my margin money being short feeders this year, hopefully 2026 doesn’t give it all back.

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Time to trail em home and get em weaned I reckon, now that they aren’t worth nothing.

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@_TheMizzouTiger @speerman42 @bl_ag_inc @MattNCOK Most guys in this part of the world haven’t gotten to where they have without having a fair jag of built in equity to withstand a tough year or two.

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@_TheMizzouTiger @speerman42 @bl_ag_inc @MattNCOK Correct, a more realistic comparison would be the guy in Iowa that owns the home 1/4 is all. If he rents enough to farm full time a bad year or 3 will wipe him out as well.