Re: Re: Re: Dairy farm at my age?

Posted by Allan on October 10, 2003 at 05:19:58 from (148.63.132.164):

In Reply to: Re: Re: Dairy farm at my age? posted by Nebraska Cowman on October 10, 2003 at 04:00:34:

Hi All,

Yes, and the thing that keeps running thru my mind is the land.

7 acres will just about be room enough for the barns, sheds, bins, calving facilities, corrals, and your feed storage, not to mention all the equipment that will have to be parked somewhere.

So, we have to think about the additional 300 or so irragated acres to raise the feed for these darlings, because buying feed just will not pencil out and pulling 100lbs out of a pasture feed cow is questionable at best.

If you look at 50 hi-quality bred heifers to start, this all seems like a very steep uphill road for many, many years to come.

Also, have we priced the cost of the AI lately and are you able to get a contract with a milk company?

How about the water? It will cost somewhere around $7K just to get the water supply to state code for Grade A production.

Interesting thread you have going here, Larry.

Allan

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