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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1786443" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>I have always said that you can sell your heifer calves and buy as good or better a cow or heifer for way less money than you can raise one. A heifer born today will take 2 and 1/2 years, 30 months, till fall of 2025, before you have a weaned calf to sell. It just doesn't pan out for a commercial cow/calf operation. Pure bred, registered stock producers, of course, are the exception. I think this chart is a little off, because it should have added the cost of what you could have sold the heifer for. Let's say you could have sold her for $1000. so the first line would be $3000-$3100, and the 2nd line would be $3800 - $4k. You can buy the damnedest, best commercial cow you have ever seen, 7+ months bred, for $4k and have a whole lot of money left in your pocket. As far as that goes, you can buy a registered heavy bred cow for that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1786443, member: 40587"] I have always said that you can sell your heifer calves and buy as good or better a cow or heifer for way less money than you can raise one. A heifer born today will take 2 and 1/2 years, 30 months, till fall of 2025, before you have a weaned calf to sell. It just doesn't pan out for a commercial cow/calf operation. Pure bred, registered stock producers, of course, are the exception. I think this chart is a little off, because it should have added the cost of what you could have sold the heifer for. Let's say you could have sold her for $1000. so the first line would be $3000-$3100, and the 2nd line would be $3800 - $4k. You can buy the damnedest, best commercial cow you have ever seen, 7+ months bred, for $4k and have a whole lot of money left in your pocket. As far as that goes, you can buy a registered heavy bred cow for that. [/QUOTE]
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