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<blockquote data-quote="JSteim" data-source="post: 1418685" data-attributes="member: 23791"><p>Lots of good advice this thread. Sorry to say I have learned a bunch of the lessons offered here the hard way. </p><p>When folks on the board say it is tough to make money at cattle it is not empty griping.<strong> There are so many expenses</strong> expected and otherwise involved in keeping cattle healthy, fat and bred. Farm and equipment maintanance eats money as well. </p><p>I have 38 acres that is blackland ex-row crop about 50 minutes away from Round Rock that my son and I run a small herd on. With about 15 total head - cows, bull and calves - we have to throw round bales and supplement quite a bit over the year to keep them in good flesh. Rainfall varies a bunch from year to year and so does the cost of hay. For us having a decent bull is much less work and expense than doing AI. </p><p>IMO the only way to make any money at cows at the small end of the scale is to have really low input costs - lots of grassland that is stocked at a level with some buffer and paid for equipment. The guy in front of me leases 100 acres that he partially row crops and he has maybe 10 head of cattle on the rest. He hauls a crop of calves off every year or so and the lease cost is the extent of his inputs on the cows that I can see.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JSteim, post: 1418685, member: 23791"] Lots of good advice this thread. Sorry to say I have learned a bunch of the lessons offered here the hard way. When folks on the board say it is tough to make money at cattle it is not empty griping.[b] There are so many expenses[/b] expected and otherwise involved in keeping cattle healthy, fat and bred. Farm and equipment maintanance eats money as well. I have 38 acres that is blackland ex-row crop about 50 minutes away from Round Rock that my son and I run a small herd on. With about 15 total head - cows, bull and calves - we have to throw round bales and supplement quite a bit over the year to keep them in good flesh. Rainfall varies a bunch from year to year and so does the cost of hay. For us having a decent bull is much less work and expense than doing AI. IMO the only way to make any money at cows at the small end of the scale is to have really low input costs - lots of grassland that is stocked at a level with some buffer and paid for equipment. The guy in front of me leases 100 acres that he partially row crops and he has maybe 10 head of cattle on the rest. He hauls a crop of calves off every year or so and the lease cost is the extent of his inputs on the cows that I can see. [/QUOTE]
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