Store cattle price autumn 2023

If beef is still a record trade come the backend then what you have to kill should be worth a right bit. This would soften the blow of having to buy there replacements at record prices. Conversely if beef takes a hit then it should be easier to replace them as the live trade will move correspondingly. In a trading system you're mainly focused on what is left between selling stock and replacing them. Selling cheap and buying cheap could be as lucrative as selling dear and buying dear (there's less capital tied up in the first scenario).

Ideally there's one time to replace stock imo and that's when you're selling the previous bunch. That means you're riding whatever wave is present at that particular moment. The people who stand the biggest chance of getting burned in the cattle trade in the coming month's imo are the summer grazer's/7 months men. They sold there stock into an average trade last backend and now face replacing them at record prices. This will require tying more capital up in stock and you could face giving the most of last year's finished price for the equivalent store atm. There's nothing to say that the beef/live trade will be anything exceptional come the autumn and you could see a return to more traditional prices giving a double whammy effect.