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If you sold the bull and whichever steer you didn't want to eat, you could put that cash back into your facility. As you can already see, you're gonna need to deal with water, as manual isn't gonna work long term. Sounds like you got a lot on the ball. I've looked into low lines like the...

re: kill fee - keep in mind something has to be done with the guts, head and hooves. and there are regulations that say you can't just dump them in the trash.

You'll have to find and call a couple butchers. Ones around here charge .35-.55lb hanging weight + $30-50 slaughter. That typically includes hanging for 14 days and your cut instructions, plus wrap of choice (vac or paper). They'll typically add a few bucks if you want half one way and the...

I nominate this as Post of the Month.

I have officially been to the end of the Internet.

There is a black baldy heifer that has been on one of my deer leases by herself since March 2015. I've taken pics of her, sent word to the neighbors, etc. last time I was there she was still grazing like she owned the place. She might wind up being my first cow.

They should put it on Facebook and ask for prayers, then use a hashtag and some smiley faces.

Man I talked to yesterday sells 15-20 and turns people away every year.

Since prices are down lots of cow/calf guys in my area are finishing and selling direct. Very few of them are having any trouble selling. yeah, you gotta deal with individuals instead of an auction barn. But selling decent beef at ~$4/lb cut and wrapped isn't hard to sell. And that gets them...

I thought there was a lot of new posters all of a sudden...

The venison comment was valid in the sense that one persons venison doesn't taste like another persons venison. If it's not handled right, yeah it tastes "gamey". In that case gamey doesn't equal "wild", it equals "rotten". Along the same line, if i ate beef somebody called "grass...

40 years ago we didn't have to go through near the crap we have to now, and we could get 8-12% interest.

yeah, it's changed. the deal is, that $640k for a house doesn't stay on the banks books. they make the loan, take a .25% fee and maybe an annual servicing fee, but they aren't out the money. that would be good ol' .gov. which is why the whole thing went tits up, but i digress. a farm loan...

the best way to find a mentor is to buy/rent some land and find somebody with some cows to go in with you on shares. that may also be the quickest way to get burned if you ain't careful, but you gotta learn somehow.

Go partners with a mentor to get started.

i appreciate that.

the way i have it figured (which may be all washed up), is about $3-$5/lb hanging. that puts it in somebodies freezer for average $6-$8/lb. at the grocery store, ground chuck is $3something/lb, and ribeye is $15ish. and lord only knows where it comes from or what it was fed. if i take care...

I would certainly want to own some ground, but if I wanted to go about it on that scale, I'd be more interested in leasing a lot of the ground. Around here, grazing land can be had for the taxes. You're talking about a 100 acres for $1000/yr or less. If it's good flat hay ground, maybe a...

i;'ve done the math a bunch lately on the sell side. i don't have the experience to do the math on the buy side, so i can't say about actual profit. but from my calculations, you can sell people freezer beef and at least break even with what you'd sell it for at my local auction. my math...

You need to make sure it can hang for at least a few days, couple weeks even better. After that, have it cut the way your family likes to eat it.