Re: Advice for new farmers?

Posted by Determined on January 23, 2020 at 06:40:53 from (216.130.212.201):

In Reply to: Advice for new farmers? posted by Cowboy2005 on January 21, 2020 at 20:03:44:

-If you are starting with one bred cow do you have access to a bull to rebreed her?

-Kind of sucks the way that it works but the best money you will make on cattle will come at someone else's expense.

Save up you money and feed and wait for a dry year, it will come.

When others are reducing their numbers to cope with the feed shortage the prices will be low, that's when you want to be ready to buy.

Lots of quality breeding stock can be had for slaughter price or less when times are tough.

-Your choice, you can buy one now for top dollar or buy 2 or 3 or more for the same money if you are patient and wait.

-Spread the risk out.

If you have 3 head and loose 1 it doesn't hurt you as bad when it happens and it will happen.

If you have a single cow and it decides to drop dead you are back to square one.

-Went to a sale one spring and ended up with a dozen older bred cows.

The plan at the time was to send them to slaughter after the calves were weaned.

4 of them calved within the first week and the rest were not far behind.

On average each of the calf's brought double of what we had paid for the cows.

Rolled the dice on them and ended up with another 5-7 calf's off each of them before they either died or were sent to slaughter.

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