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<blockquote data-quote="rockridgecattle" data-source="post: 743607" data-attributes="member: 6198"><p>What Aaron said for our area is true. Some guys are loosing their shirts. With two bad years of too much rain, alot have had to buy hay. This increased the cost of raising a cow. I admit, I want out of cows right now. I see the hemoraging of lost money and want it to stop. We have cut where we could, I monitor what we spend. Cut on vet meds to heal sick cows or calves. We have not cut on the health program, but cut in treating. No longer do we treat until we can not treat any more. Now it is "here is your course of meds, get better or get dead." We do not buy hay. We sell cows to the point of having enough hay to cover what cows are left. If we do not have the money, we go with out. We cut on small things too. Like using a hay trailer to take the hay we need to the cows for the feeding instead of running back and forth to the hay yard and then to the feed area. Little things to save pennies here and there. Grain for the cows is a luxery unless the hay is poor quality. That said, at 200 a cow, how can you afford to get out. Hubby is holding on. </p><p>My off farm job pays our living expenses. At one time we both worked off farm.</p><p>I am still trying to get hubby to see some expenses in a new light. Get him to look at all things from a cost perspective. He is learning. But i have to realize, he grew up on a family farm. His parents did things differently. For them it was a way of life, not a business. Treat old bessie untill she could take no more. Not count in all the expenses because then you would never make money. Working off farm was a way of life. I was not born on a farm. I have informal business training. I have had to cost things out, price out labour etc. So i come at it from a different perspective. I see the farm as a business like any other business and should be treated as such. Hubby is learning but it has taken alot to change his thinking.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rockridgecattle, post: 743607, member: 6198"] What Aaron said for our area is true. Some guys are loosing their shirts. With two bad years of too much rain, alot have had to buy hay. This increased the cost of raising a cow. I admit, I want out of cows right now. I see the hemoraging of lost money and want it to stop. We have cut where we could, I monitor what we spend. Cut on vet meds to heal sick cows or calves. We have not cut on the health program, but cut in treating. No longer do we treat until we can not treat any more. Now it is "here is your course of meds, get better or get dead." We do not buy hay. We sell cows to the point of having enough hay to cover what cows are left. If we do not have the money, we go with out. We cut on small things too. Like using a hay trailer to take the hay we need to the cows for the feeding instead of running back and forth to the hay yard and then to the feed area. Little things to save pennies here and there. Grain for the cows is a luxery unless the hay is poor quality. That said, at 200 a cow, how can you afford to get out. Hubby is holding on. My off farm job pays our living expenses. At one time we both worked off farm. I am still trying to get hubby to see some expenses in a new light. Get him to look at all things from a cost perspective. He is learning. But i have to realize, he grew up on a family farm. His parents did things differently. For them it was a way of life, not a business. Treat old bessie untill she could take no more. Not count in all the expenses because then you would never make money. Working off farm was a way of life. I was not born on a farm. I have informal business training. I have had to cost things out, price out labour etc. So i come at it from a different perspective. I see the farm as a business like any other business and should be treated as such. Hubby is learning but it has taken alot to change his thinking. [/QUOTE]
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