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<blockquote data-quote="Little Joe" data-source="post: 1725001" data-attributes="member: 39122"><p>I'm 40 years old, I grew up around row crop farming and always loved that and that's what I wanted to do. My mom and dad's families both row cropped and usually had a few cows, It was next to impossible to get into row crop farming due to my dad wasn't a farmer but rather leased his ground out and anymore if your dad doesn't farm it's next to impossible to get in it. I grew up next to my dad's parents and spent hours daily with my papaw listening to stories of his childhood, stories of farming and riding horses which made me develop a love for it. I started off with a few chickens when I was about 8 or 9 and eventually ended up with about 50 and a few goats, then later a $50 shetland pony and a few heifers. When I was 17 I took out a FSA youth loan and bought 5 mama cows and a bull, in the meantime I had sold the 2 I started with as well as the goats and chickens. My grandparents had been out of cattle for so long that I really had no mentors to help with them and there were very few cattlemen in my area so I did everything wrong that could be done wrong and lost my rear end. Got married at 18, she was 17,moved to the hills of Arkansas and had to sell off the cows over the next few years to help pay the loan. A few years later I started buying heifers and finishing to sell as freezer beef, did that for a while then got into registered angus for my son to show. After a few years and a mean cow pushing him around he was done showing so I sold out of that. Just owned horses and mules for a while until my son got to be a teenager and didn't ride with me anymore so got out of that, just brush hogged place for a few years after that which really helped the grass. Now I'm back to finishing out and selling freezer beef, mostly steers, been back at it about 3 years now and business is growing. I've bought a few longhorn cows along the way bred to beef bulls, raised 2 sets of calves out of them and finished out first set already and butchered, recently sold those cows, they were some money makers for sure but not what I want long term. I plan to keep growing the freezer beef business and maybe buy short term pairs here and there to eat some of the grass during the glut then retain calves to finish out. Hope to have a good enough beef business so that when I retire in 10 years it can help supplement my retirement.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Little Joe, post: 1725001, member: 39122"] I'm 40 years old, I grew up around row crop farming and always loved that and that's what I wanted to do. My mom and dad's families both row cropped and usually had a few cows, It was next to impossible to get into row crop farming due to my dad wasn't a farmer but rather leased his ground out and anymore if your dad doesn't farm it's next to impossible to get in it. I grew up next to my dad's parents and spent hours daily with my papaw listening to stories of his childhood, stories of farming and riding horses which made me develop a love for it. I started off with a few chickens when I was about 8 or 9 and eventually ended up with about 50 and a few goats, then later a $50 shetland pony and a few heifers. When I was 17 I took out a FSA youth loan and bought 5 mama cows and a bull, in the meantime I had sold the 2 I started with as well as the goats and chickens. My grandparents had been out of cattle for so long that I really had no mentors to help with them and there were very few cattlemen in my area so I did everything wrong that could be done wrong and lost my rear end. Got married at 18, she was 17,moved to the hills of Arkansas and had to sell off the cows over the next few years to help pay the loan. A few years later I started buying heifers and finishing to sell as freezer beef, did that for a while then got into registered angus for my son to show. After a few years and a mean cow pushing him around he was done showing so I sold out of that. Just owned horses and mules for a while until my son got to be a teenager and didn't ride with me anymore so got out of that, just brush hogged place for a few years after that which really helped the grass. Now I'm back to finishing out and selling freezer beef, mostly steers, been back at it about 3 years now and business is growing. I've bought a few longhorn cows along the way bred to beef bulls, raised 2 sets of calves out of them and finished out first set already and butchered, recently sold those cows, they were some money makers for sure but not what I want long term. I plan to keep growing the freezer beef business and maybe buy short term pairs here and there to eat some of the grass during the glut then retain calves to finish out. Hope to have a good enough beef business so that when I retire in 10 years it can help supplement my retirement. [/QUOTE]
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