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If you pump up the starch too fast you’re begging for acidosis.

This is pretty much advice for everything in life. Having a drink is fine. Having twenty isn’t. I think when people hear loan they instantly associate it with overextending oneself. Credit is an amazing tool for a business if you use it correctly and responsibly. Especially when used for an...

If you can borrow money for your operation at 1.75%, like a previous poster claimed, you’d be insane not to take every cent you could get. Inflation alone is rising faster than that so your own money is costing you more to use over a five year period versus that loan. That doesn’t even account...

I suspect you don’t pay enough in federal taxes to accuse anyone of using your money to fund their expansion. 😉 Enjoy your day, buddy.

Then don’t. I really don’t understand your fascination with this thread. If you don’t want a loan; don’t go get one. You’ve not added a single piece of usable advice for those of us that are comfortable using loans for expansion. I could work the math for you why it’s a great tool if used...

It was far easier to go from 0 to 230 than it’ll be to go from 230 to 750-1000.

It’s grown it from 0 to 230. I’m pretty sure my plan has worked pretty well this far.

Awesome. Take your grandkids fishing. My situation isn’t yours.

I’ve set up a meeting with Farm Credit and my local FSA office. I appreciate those who tried to answer my question instead of worrying about my tax situation, my cash flow situation and my ability to expand.

Interest is tax deductible. Expansion is how you create wealth.

I’ve bankrolled this deal out of my pocket for multiple years. At some point I’m ok with paying a few percent in interest to be able to collect a paycheck. I haven’t made a cent yet. Every heifer or steer calf I’ve sold has instantly turned into more bred heifers/heifers and started the process...

I’ve financed my entire herd out of my pocket. I’m a first generation cattleman I started with nothing and I’m up to over 230 head in three years. I have the ability to expand again but at some point I’d like to use a loan instead of continually funding it out of my pocket. Is there special...

I’m having trouble grasping how EPDs work with regards to comparing separate bulls for producing replacement females. Can someone link a YouTube video or article that breaks it down in a really rudimentary way? An-explain like I’m five-type video. Thank you.

My herd count is starting to get bigger. I’ve always funded everything out of my personal bank account. At what point did you start a business to protect yourself? I’m guessing I need to incorporate and start a business checking account, etc. When did you decide to make that decision?

You can get far better cattle for far less money than this. Wow.

I strip them clean by hand and then use tubes of Today in the bad quarter. Works great.

I’m sure like most of y’all I have multiple lengths, gauges of needles, multiple CCs of syringes, etc. Has anyone found a creative storage solution with a tool box, tackle box or something like the tool packout systems? Any pictures of what you have would be awesome.

I appreciate it, guys. I just put out extra hay today. When I ordered my feed a while back I never even put two and two together that I’d run out on a holiday weekend. They’ll be fine for the day on hay I just wasn’t sure if I could feed them straight corn or soybean for a day.

I have some straight commodities, in bulk though. What would you feed for a day until you could mix a ration? I have corn meal, soybean meal, etc. Will feeding one of these for a day cause any issues on a group of weaned heifers? Or could I feed them half and half of each? They’ve been weaned...

Everything here is sold by singles. Unless it’s a special sale from one large producer or something. The sale sheet will list all the animals available for sale and each farm will have their 20-50 animals but they’ll get run thru one at a time and each animal is sold individually.