I've been reading this with interest. Seems that people are ignoring the 3.5 acres. Well with 3.5 acres and 2 cow calf pairs you are going to have to supplement the pasture with hay even in the summer. Using standard markets it's going to be tuff to make it profitable. Going after the niche market as some would call it or even then some call it a fad bay be the only way to make it consistently profitable providing you can keep prices down. And 3.5 acres? You ain't going to get many cow calf pairs in there before it starts looking more like a feedlot. Starts looking like that and there goes the specialty market.
So you are going to have to look at more land just to keep it from looking like a feed lot. As others have pointed out land prices are crazy if you are buying. Just ain't going to work out well as it has to be paid for. So renting is your only option. The rest of us on here? We have no way to help you on the price/availability of rent or buying land. For those of us who own land, well to a certain extent we like to see land values go up. For guys trying to start out? Well it sucks to be you. Sorry, just the way it is. Others have given you any idea for starting out that I've ever heard of short of robbing a bank or selling controlled substances. And IMO you really don't want to go down that road!
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