Hub City Livestock Auction owner Steve Hellwig is seeing a $3-to-$5 permium for calves that are weaned and bunk-broke. Hellwig says the cattle market has some catching up to do. “Yes, the prices are $150-to-$200 more a head than what we saw last year, but so is the cost to raise these calves and and you can’t forget about all the death loss from last spring.” In Hellwig’s words, “nobody is getting rich raising cattle right now.”
