Eric Groper
speaker
26 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
Eric Groper’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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As a cattle rancher, you are a price taker.
You get what's given, right?
I don't get to set my price.
I sell at a local sale barn.
My calves are open to the world, we'll say.
Anybody can bid on them.
And that's what I get.
Once a year, that's my calf crop.
It's a rough figure, but about $2,500 a head for a 600-pound steer at the sale barn right now.
Yep.
We're record cattle prices right now.
The year before that, they were $18,000 to $2,000.
Yes and no.
I mean, it feels really good.
You're able to pay your bills.
But your inputs are still so drastically high that if we didn't have these record prices, we'd all be broke.
So I sit down to do my taxes, and it feels like I made a lot more money, right?
I'm playing with a lot more money.
But in the end, I really didn't make any more.
Because...
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