Posted by centash on July 29, 2015 at 18:52:14 from (67.220.45.254):
In Reply to: Re: dairy setups posted by L.Fure on July 29, 2015 at 05:49:12:
I milked for almost thity years with a herd of 30 -35 cows and made a good living doing so. Bought the cows and machinery from my Dad for the going rate at the time , leased the facilities for 5 years before buying the land again at close to market price, while paying interest on a Farm Credit loan at 16 percent initially. Bought more land and quota machinery etc. and was debt free in 25 years. Then my health failed and I had to let the cows go. The key to staying in busines is to have good contol over your cost of production. In my last year of milking (2005) feed costs were less than 28 cents per litre, leaving the rest (70 cents per liter was what I received for the milk) to service debt and live from. I am still operating the same tractors and equipment I had when milking; there is nothing newer here than 15 years old, and We put three kids through university took some family vacations and had no off farm income. While the scenario may be somewhat different today, if you live a moderate lifestyle, you do not need a large farm to make a living. I have difficulty grasping how those hundreds of cows herds can barely sustain a family.
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