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I apologize for such a late response to some of you. Just wanted to give an update on what we've decided if anyone was interested. To answer a few questions, he does have about 70-80 head with 1 bull year round on roughly 100 acres. He has a helper that does mostly all the work for him since...

Thanks for the advice! I’m going to talk to him more in depth about the different methods and see why he chooses to do the one bull year round. Maybe it’s just easier and he isn’t necessarily doing this for profit?

I know it is about 100 acres, and he said it’s about 90 on average. He uses only one bull and the bull stays with them year round and he sells the calves as they come. I’m not sure how much hay he has to purchase on top of the 5 acres he’s been bailing

Thanks! I’ll definitely look that up!

I think that’s a good plan. We are leaning towards my wife having a full time job while I learn all the ins and outs of ranching for about a year like you said. And then if I can manage a full time job and maintain the herd size, I’ll go ahead and do that. Definitely a lot to learn from him!

Well my wife definitely wants to keep her full time job in nursing as she has a passion for it. I on the other hand wouldn’t mind leaving the engineering side of things and putting my full effort into ranching. My biggest fear, is like all of you have said, it’s not the most profitable thing so...

We will be about an hour south of Charlotte, close to the border. She’s looking to maybe work in matthews, NC or somewhere in that area. He has mainly all Hereford with a few Charolais I believe.

That’s the main reason I tried getting others rough estimates. He is very old fashioned and doesn’t do it for the money and doesn’t keep records of anything. He just has a passion for ranching. Only real information I could get is he has roughly 90 at a time on the 100 acres. He only runs one...

Well without going into too much detail, she’s in nursing and has much more passion for her job than I do for mine so she would like to continue working as a nurse down there. Which from the responses, it sounds like at minimum one of us should and could have a job with no issues.

Haha yeah I really don’t have any actual agricultural experience, she has some just from growing up there but I’m extremely good with my hands and have no issues learning new things. We were more just curious on the financial side of it and what we should do.

That may be a good idea. Listening to other it sounds like it won’t make full time money anyways so at least that way we could continue and keep the ranch within the family while not having to put too much labor into it ourselves for the time being. Thanks!

That’s good to hear. He has a small field he uses strictly for hay that’s about 5 acres and then purchases more if he doesn’t have enough. Mostly everything is in good standing order. He currently has a few auto filling troughs off city water. Would it be a good ROI to maybe get a few wells dug?

Thanks for the reply! I completely forgot about the benefits side of it. That’s a good point. We plan to have at least one of us working full time.

Thanks for the quick reply! Would it be possible for us to both work, maybe one of us work as part time or will 90 or so cattle take most of the day to operate?

Hey everyone! Little back story, currently working as an engineer, make good money but wife wants to move back to her hometown to be with and take care of family. Her grandpa wants us to take over a roughly 90 cattle ranch on about 100 acres in SC due to very old age. He really doesn’t know how...