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then there’s probably less chance for them to go up (in 60 to 90 days). I might want to go ahead and sell them because there would not be much reason to hold them. But if you see a fairly typical fall low hap- pen by the time you get to Novem- ber, then you have a pretty good prospect of seeing that seasonal price increase.” Peel says, “The way it looks to


me right now, there may not be as much of the normal seasonal price increase from this November to next February to April, but I don’t think there’s much of a likelihood that prices are going to go down.


Typically, cull cow prices rise from


November and tend to peak in May.


“You may not get the price in-


crease, but you can get the weight increase. If you have a chance to throw a bull in with them you might get some bred ones. There’s prob- ably a better than average chance that you’ll make some money that will more than pay for your trouble by keeping cows this fall, even if they don’t show much of a seasonal low.” This is not an all-or-nothing


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choice, Peel points out. If you have some cull cows that are not too thin, “I’d probably go ahead and sell the fatter ones. You could keep and feed the thin ones.” Factor your time and trouble


into the cost of keeping cull cows. “Those things matter, too. You’ll have to manage them separately from everything else. For some peo- ple, those labor and facility issues may be the deciding factor.”


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