Posted by NY 986 on November 23, 2010 at 13:14:21 from (69.171.163.169):
In Reply to: OT cows left posted by rrlund on November 23, 2010 at 09:44:49:
I was always fortunate that the dairy business was never squarely on my shoulders with our family. We were always productive but were never in that upper 25 percent production category that seems to allow for more help and more frequent updates on equipment. My mother's father got started pretty early on ABS when artificial breeding came out and had a pretty good herd for the 1960's. His health cut his farming career short but it would have been interesting to see him progress with it another 15 years or so and see how that would have impacted our herd. I know there is more to profit than RHA but I just don't know how the guys do it that are under 25,000 even if they have extremely minimal debt. There just does not seem to be close to enough niche market to go around and organic seems to be one of the first things that takes a heavy hit when the economy tanks. Also, it seems the grazing period is too short for the work involved but there are guys that do it. I don't know if I would want to do it even if I could have a 30,000 lb RHA with fat and protein at 3.75 or higher each. Never got excited about having more than 100 cows to milk and my back would not be good enough to stoop anymore so that would mean a parlor. I do miss things like putting up corn silage on a nice sunny 70 degree late September day.
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