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Post by ericcks on Sept 4, 2012 8:37:29 GMT -5
I snuck out Sunday for a quick cruise to Ford County Feeders. Came back with a 16 minute video of HMC coming in. Please play your own music while viewing. The free stuff I found is not great and runs out after 7 minutes. Audioswap is just OK but not great. This feedlot is 52,000 at capacity. Normally they take in 4 million bushels. Drought has them at 2 million the last two years. All HMC is picked in my area. This corn is coming from up to an hour away. Enjoy.
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Post by thebaz on Sept 5, 2012 20:10:06 GMT -5
So this is a farm or some Feed company? it isn't a Distillery I'm sure
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Post by 70ds on Sept 5, 2012 21:25:01 GMT -5
It is a large feed lot. There are a lot of them down in that area.
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Post by TwoTone on Sept 5, 2012 23:54:31 GMT -5
I wish the feedlot we take ours to had their act together like those guys. They use a tub grinder that breaks all the time and we can't even get trucks with trailers into the pit
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Post by ericcks on Sept 6, 2012 9:10:39 GMT -5
Clayton is right, this is a 52,000 head feedlot. All the equipment in the pit is owned by the yard. There is a CIH 4x4 leased to help pack according to a buddy there.
This yard used tub grinders at one point in history but evolved away from those to modern machines that do the job faster.
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Post by thebaz on Sept 6, 2012 21:08:06 GMT -5
Wow thats insane, I can just think of the bills to run those machines and buy that amount of corn, returns better be good lol
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Post by ericcks on Sept 6, 2012 22:20:12 GMT -5
If there is one thing I've learned about these big feedlots around here is that these guys are risk takers and are calculated. Some of the corn going in these pits they are not paying market prices for. It was contracted some time ago.
Another important piece of this puzzle is the yard is not the only source of revenue. What I have found is these guys have multiple streams of income. When one is down the other is higher etc etc. Plus many yards own a lot of acres they can borrow against and supply their own grain (cheap). Sure some yards fold from poor decisions but it seems like most weather these cycles pretty well.
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Post by woltersfarm on Sept 8, 2012 20:59:05 GMT -5
The bids they are giving seem to be pretty competitive if they get corn from an hr away, it must be nice to pick corn and not dry it. I wonder do they pay in dry bushels or wet bushels?
Caleb W
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Post by treymo on Sept 17, 2012 21:03:21 GMT -5
The bids they are giving seem to be pretty competitive if they get corn from an hr away, it must be nice to pick corn and not dry it. I wonder do they pay in dry bushels or wet bushels? Caleb W It's a hell of a deal if the farmer can bid it right.. Get part of your crop off a week or 2 early which drags out the harvest a bit more. Plus, it works great if you're wanting to go back in and drill rye or wheat pasture right away. They aren't the strictest but they will start to dock the wetter it gets. They usually want it inbetween 18% and 28%. Trey |
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Post by steelin81 on Sept 29, 2012 20:03:26 GMT -5
Cool video, Not too much up here done with corn so I'm not too framiliar with it. Are the loaders feeding hammer or roller mills? Is the corn fed with something else like silage or is it fed straight to the cows.
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