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April 2026 04/08/26 6:18:00 PM
4-8-2026
Another up and down week of weather has been here the past 7 days! We have been warm and sunny in the 70’s and rain and chilly in the low 30’s. We even had snow flurries here on Tuesday! The forecast calls for a chance of rain here on Thursday, but warming up nicely towards the weekend. Folks are starting to mow yards in the area, as the grass is growing everyday!
Saturday’s sale was sure a good one, with an extra large crowd here. The hog market was lower on sows with a $0.60 top. Fat hogs sold from $0.57 to $0.65. Several packages and groups of feeder pigs sold at over a dollar per pound for 40lb to 60lb pigs and $0.90 on those 70lb to 100lb pigs. Roaster and feeder buyers were both active.
The sheep and goat market was steady to slightly lower on a little run. Bottle lambs weighing 50lb to 75lb sold at $3.40 to $4.00. Cull ewes sold at $1.10 to $1.40. Kid goats topped at $5.05 for 45lb kids. Cull nannies were $1.10 to $1.60a pound. Big billies sold at $2.15 to $2.85. Randall Burkholder came early this week. He filled in the right until the Mathes boys arrived, then he sold for a while in the morning. He’s doing great! Thanks for helping.
The outside sale was lighter after the rain we had. Small squares didn’t really get brought in until Saturday morning and only a light test. The bulk of the market was at $4.00 to $6.00, just a few bales reached up to $7.00. Big rounds sold at $30.00 to $55.00 with the bulk of them at $45.00 to $50.00. Big squares of alfalfa was very solid at $55.00 to $65.00 per bale.
The outside sale had an outstanding run of high-quality hedge posts. The market started out good and got progressively higher as we worked through the various piles. Line posts sold from $20.00 to $50.00. Corners and braces sold from $50.00 to $110.00 with 2 piles of 20 and 25 about 10ft long sold at $200.00 and $205.00! That is a Keosauqua Sale company “all time” record! It’s good to see the fellas that doing the work of cutting those things, get rewarded for those efforts!
The cattle sale had just less than 1000 head this week. The baby calf market was steady at $1250.00 to $1600.00 on the nice kind. A few bred cows and odd pairs were getting steady interest. The feeder cattle sold to an aggressive set of buyers. Some 280lb steer calves brought $2000 per head, some 393lb sold at $6.05 per pound. A few 415lb brought $5.90, 510lb sold at $5.00, 607lb bwf steers brought $4.70, 675lb steers $4.15, some 704lbs brought $4.05 and 770lb sold at $3.86 and some 898lb steers brought $3.40.
Heifers weighing 280lb brought $1900 per head. Ten black heifers weighing 400lb brought $5.25 and 503lb red heifers sold at $5.00, 640lb sold at $3.80 and 700lb brought $3.40 to $3.50.
Weigh cows sold steady at $1.85 to $
3-31-2026.00 on the high yielding end. The top bulls got to $2.40 this week.
I made the trip to Des Moines with Becky on Monday. We dropped bulls off at Nichols for collection, then went to West Des Moines for a doctor's appointment for my ankle. The doctor said it looks good. So, we start therapy and quit being lazy! It was all good news for me, but even more for Becky!
We are all finished up calving black heifers and Herefords. Colby still has an ongoing co here calving and Ted has a few black cows left. The first heifers get lutalyse coming up the 19th. The boys have been busy working groups through the chute for pre-breeding work and only have the 5G heifers left to do. The calves are sure doing well, running out in the pastures.
Saturday is a special bred cows, pairs and breeding bull sale. We have several nice quality consignments sure to be worth a look in Keosauqua this week!
Have a dandy week!
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