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<blockquote data-quote="tdc_cattle" data-source="post: 1316239" data-attributes="member: 24634"><p>My costs are rediculously low. My hay ground is the water ways from my row crop ground. They get plenty if fertility from run off so no fert cost. Fuel to mow and rake isn't much and I pay $10 to a friend to bale it. Borrowing a hay trailer costs me a case of miller lite. So I put my hay costs, mow rake, bale, haul at $15 per 5x6 bale. So less then $100 in hay. I am not putting down p & k on my pasture, figuring I'm getting them from they hay I'm feeding. So the cost of 40 units of N. Working costs and vet costs is close to $50. I grind corn out if the bin so even if you figure 2 pounds a day, which it's less, that's $50 per year. I don't figure anything for my labor. He'll last year in my entire farming opperation I lost money so my time was worthless. Land payment is close to $100 an acre and I'm stocked at one pair per acre of pasture. </p><p></p><p>The moco and rake have been paid off for years and I haven't had much in the way of repairs on them so u don't really figure them as a cost. The tractors are paid for and already own for row crop so I generally just cost them to the row crop. Truck the same way. There's some fencing costs as well, $10 per head? </p><p></p><p>I figure close to $300 per head, but I don't cost a lot if things that I have anyway and are paid off.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tdc_cattle, post: 1316239, member: 24634"] My costs are rediculously low. My hay ground is the water ways from my row crop ground. They get plenty if fertility from run off so no fert cost. Fuel to mow and rake isn't much and I pay $10 to a friend to bale it. Borrowing a hay trailer costs me a case of miller lite. So I put my hay costs, mow rake, bale, haul at $15 per 5x6 bale. So less then $100 in hay. I am not putting down p & k on my pasture, figuring I'm getting them from they hay I'm feeding. So the cost of 40 units of N. Working costs and vet costs is close to $50. I grind corn out if the bin so even if you figure 2 pounds a day, which it's less, that's $50 per year. I don't figure anything for my labor. He'll last year in my entire farming opperation I lost money so my time was worthless. Land payment is close to $100 an acre and I'm stocked at one pair per acre of pasture. The moco and rake have been paid off for years and I haven't had much in the way of repairs on them so u don't really figure them as a cost. The tractors are paid for and already own for row crop so I generally just cost them to the row crop. Truck the same way. There's some fencing costs as well, $10 per head? I figure close to $300 per head, but I don't cost a lot if things that I have anyway and are paid off. [/QUOTE]
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