Reading the livestock market ad

[Marcie]

What is feeder cattle?

It says

Feeder cattle
Best strs 300-500#...93-110 is the 93-110 the starting prices??

What does SLA cows mean?

Under that is says shells? What is that?

[wwubben]

These are prices the cattle are selling for.$.93-$1.10 is the price per pound paid for the 300#-500# feeder calves.SLA is slaughter cows and shell means they are so skinny that they are just shells.

[topside1]

Feeder calves generally starting weights around 200 pounds and up.

[ladycat]

Originally Posted by Marcie

What is feeder cattle?

That's calves you're going to feed/graze out to butcher.

Around here they put feeder calves on the wheat, and after the wheat is harvested, they sell them to a feedlot.