{"id":1068,"date":"2009-12-20T09:47:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T14:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stockmanship.com\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2009-12-20T09:47:11","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T14:47:11","slug":"cost-of-gain-cost-to-keep-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/?p=1068","title":{"rendered":"Cost of Gain . . . Cost to Keep (more)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Comment from a student:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Take a look at El Reno this week.\u00a0 There is report of 6 #1 LM 558 pound steers that sold for $93.00\u00a0 (Fleshy)\u00a0 Just above them was the 557 pound steers at normal flesh that sell for $104.50\u00a0 The fleshy calf cost $518.94 and the other cost $582.06\u00a0\u00a0 This market would have paid me $63.12 to take one pound off the fleshy calves.<\/p>\n<p>This is where I totally get the \u201ccost to keep.\u201d\u00a0 I have numerous trades where I take fat bawling bulls and turn them into thin yearling steers and loose weight doing it by putting them on cheap, mature grass.\u00a0 Although I lost weight, I still made a profit.\u00a0 It still cost me money to take off the weight in grass, time, skill, labor, freight and vet supplies.\u00a0 But when I took them back to the sale at a lower weight than I bought them, they paid me for negative gain because I replaced them with a heavier, fat bawling bull.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This may not make sense to anyone but me.\u00a0 But there is real, spendable cash left over after each trade.<\/p>\n<p>Keep smiling!\u00a0 I know you mean it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment from a student:\u00a0\u00a0 Take a look at El Reno this week.\u00a0 There is report of 6 #1 LM 558 pound steers that sold for $93.00\u00a0 (Fleshy)\u00a0 Just above them was the 557 pound steers at normal flesh that sell for $104.50\u00a0 The fleshy calf cost $518.94 and the other cost $582.06\u00a0\u00a0 This market would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","category-testimonials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}