Market now or later?

摘要

In sizing up calf marketing this fall, Dillon Feuz, Utah State University livestock marketing specialist, says there will be some profit opportunities, but they may not come from doing the same things you've always done. "The past two years, anyone forward contracting or selling on video sales for fall delivery early received a better price than waiting for fall sales," Feuz says. That's because corn prices rallied the past two falls, depressing calf prices. Considering weather-induced, later-than-normal corn planting and emergence, projected trend-line yields were already in jeopardy by the first week of June 2008.