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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 372787" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>For raising a couple of steers on 8 acres you may not need to do everything you listed.</p><p></p><p>1. Lime: To get the most production out of your field you may want to lime but on the other hand you may grow enough grass without liming at all. Your goal is to raise a couple steers not maximize production. Soil test to find out before liming.</p><p></p><p>2. Fertilizer: Again soil test. And only fertilize to the level of production needed. Maybe about $200 a year</p><p></p><p>3. Legumes: They are an asset in a lot of ways but not required. Seed about 3 pounds per acre at a cost of $2.00 a pound.</p><p></p><p>4. Fence: Good fence is needed. With labor somewheres around $2.50 a foot. That figure will vary greatly around the country. Fence cost runs about half material and half labor.</p><p></p><p>5. Water: Well water is fine. You can buy a water trough for $60 or use an old bath tub. A cheap float valve cost $15 and a garden hose.</p><p></p><p>6. That few animals a 20 by 20 corral that is set up so you can herd animals in and load them out will work. Again regionally cost will vary but I could build that here for less than $300. But it should last for years.</p><p></p><p>7. Price of steers: 3 head of 600 weight steers at ??? $1.10 would be $1,980.</p><p></p><p>8. Vet: With those size animals vet bills should be fair rare. My dad raised a steer or two when I was growing up in this same sort of manner. I don't remember him ever having the vet out.</p><p></p><p>9. Delivery: Here it would run about $25. Send all the steers at the same time. Generally cost is per trip, not per head.</p><p></p><p>10. Butchering: here we have mobile farm slaughter at $50 and cut and wrap at 37 cents a pound.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 372787, member: 498"] For raising a couple of steers on 8 acres you may not need to do everything you listed. 1. Lime: To get the most production out of your field you may want to lime but on the other hand you may grow enough grass without liming at all. Your goal is to raise a couple steers not maximize production. Soil test to find out before liming. 2. Fertilizer: Again soil test. And only fertilize to the level of production needed. Maybe about $200 a year 3. Legumes: They are an asset in a lot of ways but not required. Seed about 3 pounds per acre at a cost of $2.00 a pound. 4. Fence: Good fence is needed. With labor somewheres around $2.50 a foot. That figure will vary greatly around the country. Fence cost runs about half material and half labor. 5. Water: Well water is fine. You can buy a water trough for $60 or use an old bath tub. A cheap float valve cost $15 and a garden hose. 6. That few animals a 20 by 20 corral that is set up so you can herd animals in and load them out will work. Again regionally cost will vary but I could build that here for less than $300. But it should last for years. 7. Price of steers: 3 head of 600 weight steers at ??? $1.10 would be $1,980. 8. Vet: With those size animals vet bills should be fair rare. My dad raised a steer or two when I was growing up in this same sort of manner. I don't remember him ever having the vet out. 9. Delivery: Here it would run about $25. Send all the steers at the same time. Generally cost is per trip, not per head. 10. Butchering: here we have mobile farm slaughter at $50 and cut and wrap at 37 cents a pound. [/QUOTE]
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