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Calf prices today for summer 2025

Livestock Risk Protection can secure you a minimum price for your 2025 calf crop today and you can still sell higher if the market should end up that way when your calves are ready for sale.

August 8, 2024

Jimbo Mercer

Imagine this: You get a call today from your video sale rep, and they say, “We can offer you $275.93 per hundredweight (steers and heifers) for your 2025 calf crop.”

Focusing on adding value regardless of market trends will equal long-term benefits

Even when prices are high, taking the time to add value to the calf crop through simple protocols can pay off and set producers ahead for the future.

June 26, 2023

Allyson Dalton

“I’ve noticed it before, not just in this cycle,” says Kenny Burdine, extension professor in livestock economics at the University of Kentucky. “There is a tendency with some producers, when prices are high, to almost become satisfied and to be less focused on adding value when they feel like they are getting a pretty good price for their calves.”

Early herd rebuilding could happen through the bred cow market

March 2, 2023

Elliott Dennis

There will be producers who have feed resources and believe profits are to be had in 2023 and 2024. The quickest way for these producers to increase the feeder cattle supply is through the addition of bred cows or bred heifers.

2023 starts with uptick in cow numbers, fewer replacements

U.S. quarterly average replacement dairy cow prices averaged $1,720 per head in January 2023, $10 less than October 2022.

February 1, 2023

Dave Natzke

As of Jan. 1, 2023, there were 29.5 replacements expected to calve for every 100 cows currently in the herd, the smallest percentage since 2001.

Replacement cow prices rise on tighter supplies

August 24, 2022

Dave Natzke

Strong milk prices and tighter supplies of cows and heifers pushed U.S. average prices for dairy replacements to their highest level in six years, according to latest quarterly estimates from the USDA.

Maximize profit potential when selling cull cows

June 12, 2020

Twig Marston

Whether you subscribe to culling females using the Four O’s Cow Culling Program (culling open, old, ornery and oddball cows) or not, culled females have a profit potential you’ll want to maximize, just like when you sell your calf crop.

Years of data highlight factors influencing sale price

March 19, 2020

Maggie Smith and Esther McCabe

As cattle producers continue to seek ways to add value to their operations, recent research from Kansas State University looks at a variety of factors influencing the sale price of beef calf lots.

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Calf prices today for summer 2025

Focusing on adding value regardless of market trends will equal long-term benefits

Early herd rebuilding could happen through the bred cow market

2023 starts with uptick in cow numbers, fewer replacements

Replacement cow prices rise on tighter supplies

Maximize profit potential when selling cull cows

Years of data highlight factors influencing sale price

Economic Update: Class I base price falls for December

Milk production slightly higher than year ago for third consecutive month

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