Livestock is called that for a reason. They are walking stock markets. Stocks falls all the time, if a farmer has been in it very long, this will not effect near as much as the fuss it’s bringing. Sure they’ll lose some money, but money is still to be made on cattle. Beef prices have went up and down for years. Feed costed us $285 a ton this year. We sold steers at 720wt $3.52 a pound. In 2020 feed prices was $310 a ton and calves sold for $1.33 at 725wt. I for one am not upset prices are falling off some. Maybe my daughter can afford to buy her some cows in the future. Cattle and land prices right now, are pricing tomorrow’s generation out. There is no way a person can buy 40 acres of pasture land and 20 head of cows to go on it, and expect them cows to pay for the land. Just no way. Bring beef prices down and the rest will follow with it. Fencing, equipment, land etc etc. or at least that’s my hope. But crying over cattle prices after a person voluntarily got in the cattle business is crazy to me. Cows been record high for 2 years, if getting rich was the end game, then folks should have sold out. I farm cause it’s who I am. This price drop, just make it somewhere else is what I say. Just part of the game.

Maybe it’ll bring down grocery store prices for the American public as well. I don’t buy much beef cause of the price. Deer, fish makes up 75% of my groceries. Porck and chicken gets the rest for the most part. End of day, don’t really matter what none of us think, we can’t change it. I’m just thankful to get to do what I do at the end of the day.