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<blockquote data-quote="Kell-inKY" data-source="post: 1315683" data-attributes="member: 23511"><p>Yeah, the lime and fertilizer thing was a bunch!, forgot that (this IS the beginners board), if it actually did any good I sure can't tell. Be awhile till I do that again. Figure 5k over 5 years divided by 10 cows = 100 extra dollars, could run more head and that would reduce it per cow.</p><p></p><p>All good points. Fuel for hauling hay is not that bad, a tank for 40 bales (pretty close), taxes on land is dirt cheap compared to the house, don't know what that is but very small percentage of my tax bill and I would be paying it if I had a cow on it or not. Can't figure what my time is worth, since I work full time at a job like most others? Tools and tractors, I would have anyway as well and I actually mow less with cows out, and my equipment isn't much compared to others. I think this is where a lot of beginners like me get into trouble. I'm the king of craigslist.</p><p></p><p>If you include tractors everyone's will be wildly different won't they? Then you have to figure how many head you can average that cost into, that makes no sense to me. Plus is a tractor an expense or an asset? It still has value? But M-5 already stated this is impossible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kell-inKY, post: 1315683, member: 23511"] Yeah, the lime and fertilizer thing was a bunch!, forgot that (this IS the beginners board), if it actually did any good I sure can't tell. Be awhile till I do that again. Figure 5k over 5 years divided by 10 cows = 100 extra dollars, could run more head and that would reduce it per cow. All good points. Fuel for hauling hay is not that bad, a tank for 40 bales (pretty close), taxes on land is dirt cheap compared to the house, don't know what that is but very small percentage of my tax bill and I would be paying it if I had a cow on it or not. Can't figure what my time is worth, since I work full time at a job like most others? Tools and tractors, I would have anyway as well and I actually mow less with cows out, and my equipment isn't much compared to others. I think this is where a lot of beginners like me get into trouble. I'm the king of craigslist. If you include tractors everyone's will be wildly different won't they? Then you have to figure how many head you can average that cost into, that makes no sense to me. Plus is a tractor an expense or an asset? It still has value? But M-5 already stated this is impossible. [/QUOTE]
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