Associate Farm Editor, Reagan Calk, is talking with Bob Rodenberger, a partner with Stockman Oklahoma Livestock Marketing, as he gives his weekly update of the cattle markets.
There were good runs Monday, Rodenberger said, and many producers in the state are pleased with the recent moisture received.
“Market would have been fully steady with some tendency to a higher market in places,” Rodenberger said. “Looks to me like still awful good demand for these grazing cattle. Got good demand for feeder cattle.”
Runs at Apache were lighter compared to the week prior, Rodenberger said, and cow runs have been cut in half.
“We just had 150 cows, and the week before it was 250,” Rodenberger said. “Of course, a year ago, we were having four (400) to 600 head, so hopefully, we have stopped the cow runs for a minute, and people are just waiting on moisture, and like I said, we have got some people that got some good moisture down in southern and southwest Oklahoma, which hasn’t had any, but in general we have got a very positive market.”
Regarding rebuilding of the cowherd, Rodenberger said that for now, there is nowhere to put any cows.
“It is going to happen, but we have got to get spring and summer grass,” Rodenberger said.
Many producers, Rodenberger said, are maintaining the herd they have left.
“We have got to continue to get these rains, we have got to get spring grass, then we have got to get a hay crop in the barn,” Rodenberger said.
