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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 682662" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>If you are asking me about this financially, my answer is "NO".....it is not worth the effort. If you pay $150 a calf and they wean at 550 lbs and bring $1.10 in this down market the spread is only $455. Throw in feed, shots, tags, hauling, commission, pasture costs, etc and you can EASILY spend $200 a calf. The spread then is only $255. Three calves x $255 is $765. If you spend 4 hours at the sale barn and 2 hours a day for 4 weeks, messing with them you spent 60 hours of labor on this project. At the new minimum wage of $7.25, your labor is worth $435 at McDonalds so you really only clear $330. IF the market is like it was this November those heifers might be worth only $.88, in which case you lose $33 versus your opportunity costs andthere is always the chance that one or more of the heifers DIE turning this whole exercise into a mini-financial disaster.</p><p></p><p>If you enjoy what you are doing and can take the risk of losing the money, ignore me and keep on doing what you are doing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 682662, member: 7645"] If you are asking me about this financially, my answer is "NO".....it is not worth the effort. If you pay $150 a calf and they wean at 550 lbs and bring $1.10 in this down market the spread is only $455. Throw in feed, shots, tags, hauling, commission, pasture costs, etc and you can EASILY spend $200 a calf. The spread then is only $255. Three calves x $255 is $765. If you spend 4 hours at the sale barn and 2 hours a day for 4 weeks, messing with them you spent 60 hours of labor on this project. At the new minimum wage of $7.25, your labor is worth $435 at McDonalds so you really only clear $330. IF the market is like it was this November those heifers might be worth only $.88, in which case you lose $33 versus your opportunity costs andthere is always the chance that one or more of the heifers DIE turning this whole exercise into a mini-financial disaster. If you enjoy what you are doing and can take the risk of losing the money, ignore me and keep on doing what you are doing. [/QUOTE]
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