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<blockquote data-quote="Stepper" data-source="post: 435658" data-attributes="member: 3398"><p>Well i will admit that i dont know no where near as much as most of you do about the profits that are made off of cattle.</p><p></p><p>But i have been tring to keep track of my exspenses on my small operation so that i can see for myself just how much money i am making or losing.</p><p></p><p>And i have listened to thoes of you who says they are making money and thoes who says the national average is arround $ 100 a head.</p><p></p><p>So this is my take on it so far. I had to be out all of the start up cost on my little operation. And i think that the majority of small operations like me have to do the same. And i can tell you right now by having to buy all of your equipment, land even if it is just a small amount of land, leases and everything else that goes with it. If you are honest about it you are losing money.( not even clearing $ 100 a head ) And that is buying used equipment and not hiring any of the work done. </p><p></p><p>And if you will notice most of the ones who claim to be making a good profit off cattle are using perfect figures to back their calims of making alot of money off of their operations. For instance, They are figureing saling 600 lb calves at $ 1.15 or better a head. And having a 100 % calve crop no lost calves. Everything is perfect.</p><p></p><p>Well that is another thing i can vouch for. In the cattle bussiness things dont work perfectly in the real world. Most of the calves you take to sale vary in their weights and are not an ideal 600 lbs and the market varys with them and they will not bring that ideal $ 1.15 plus a head. The market wont do that even when it is good.</p><p></p><p>And most of the people who i hear talk about making money off of cattle got their start by having alot of their equipment, land and other things passed on to them. ( They are lucky i wish i was in their shoes ) And most of them that make their living only by cattle alone run 500 head or more.</p><p></p><p>That is just my observations of the profits made in cattle so far. And i know there is going to be someone ask, well why are you in it then ? :lol: And all i can say to that is some times some of us have to learn things the hard way. Not that i have not learned my lesson and not that i am not thinking about getting out of it. Because i am really giving that alot of thought.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stepper, post: 435658, member: 3398"] Well i will admit that i dont know no where near as much as most of you do about the profits that are made off of cattle. But i have been tring to keep track of my exspenses on my small operation so that i can see for myself just how much money i am making or losing. And i have listened to thoes of you who says they are making money and thoes who says the national average is arround $ 100 a head. So this is my take on it so far. I had to be out all of the start up cost on my little operation. And i think that the majority of small operations like me have to do the same. And i can tell you right now by having to buy all of your equipment, land even if it is just a small amount of land, leases and everything else that goes with it. If you are honest about it you are losing money.( not even clearing $ 100 a head ) And that is buying used equipment and not hiring any of the work done. And if you will notice most of the ones who claim to be making a good profit off cattle are using perfect figures to back their calims of making alot of money off of their operations. For instance, They are figureing saling 600 lb calves at $ 1.15 or better a head. And having a 100 % calve crop no lost calves. Everything is perfect. Well that is another thing i can vouch for. In the cattle bussiness things dont work perfectly in the real world. Most of the calves you take to sale vary in their weights and are not an ideal 600 lbs and the market varys with them and they will not bring that ideal $ 1.15 plus a head. The market wont do that even when it is good. And most of the people who i hear talk about making money off of cattle got their start by having alot of their equipment, land and other things passed on to them. ( They are lucky i wish i was in their shoes ) And most of them that make their living only by cattle alone run 500 head or more. That is just my observations of the profits made in cattle so far. And i know there is going to be someone ask, well why are you in it then ? :lol: And all i can say to that is some times some of us have to learn things the hard way. Not that i have not learned my lesson and not that i am not thinking about getting out of it. Because i am really giving that alot of thought. [/QUOTE]
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