Littlesalesman
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Hi, I am a newbi and I was looking for some information for some of you older generation. If I got a 2 year beef management degree could I make a living of just cattle?
Littlesalesman":329bzld6 said:Hi, I am a newbi and I was looking for some information for some of you older generation. If I got a 2 year beef management degree could I make a living of just cattle?
Littlesalesman":3a89lnzf said:I plan On having a Cow calf herd with some feeders on grass. I have quite a bit of experience I am a veternarians son.
Herefords.US":3erjxzyq said:Littlesalesman":3erjxzyq said:I plan On having a Cow calf herd with some feeders on grass. I have quite a bit of experience I am a veternarians son.
My question was a serious one! How much money do you have to invest?
Look at it this way. If you clear $100 a calf from a cow/calf operation, you would need 220 cows to clear $20,000 a year, assuming a 90% calf crop.
Is $20,000 a year a living? :?:
Littlesalesman":nnv06k3b said:Yes my dad has saw alot of little farms come and go. So your saying that all I would make a year is 20000
Littlesalesman":37brdaz2 said:Yes my dad has saw alot of little farms come and go. So your saying that all I would make a year is 20000
What I am saying is that in my opinion, if you really, seriously think you want to spend your life raising cattle for a living, I would go out and take a jpb on a cattle ranch and work for a few years learning all that I could learn. After a few years of working/learning if you still want to raise cattle for a living, that would be the time to go out on your own. You would still be very young, have a better feeling for what you want, have some expenence and have a leg up on borrowing the needed funds. If you go to school and get your degree, you don't have a lot of hands on expenence. You don't necessarly have a good feeling for what you want to do and it will also be very hard to borrow money from a lender without having expenence.Littlesalesman":3fy6cgzq said:Home place angus I don't see what you are try to say