Could you survive

[BK9954]

I sure wished I could grow coffee....i'd sure miss coffee..

When I was in Houston the thought crossed my mind. I actually have the seeds but not sure if it would take in the climate, or we could just go British abd have hot tea again.. I also bought one of those heirloom seed packs of almost every veggie, sealed, good forever. Also have tobacco seeds, actually grew that. Not sure how long those seeds are good for but if everything fell apart a good chew would be nice. Making wine is so easy sitting on a 50 pound bag of sugar is all you need. Prickly pear wine,mustang grape wine or wild blackberry would be fine. In tough times alcohol is a good seller.

We've learned to make Mead....and if you have bees, alcohol is a breeze.

Wierd, you read my mind, I am actually getting into bee's this year, doing 1 acre of hogs, and 10 acres of goats. Going to diversify. Just got a CHEAP line on hog feed.

 

[Supa Dexta]

^That sounds like every other 'new farmer' around here. May as well grow some veggies, spin wool and raise odd breeds of chickens to keep up though. They always seem to be bent out of shape about raw milk too. :???:

 

[BK9954]

^That sounds like every other 'new farmer' around here. May as well grow some veggies, spin wool and raise odd breeds of chickens to keep up though. They always seem to be bent out of shape about raw milk too. :???:

When opportunity arrises, why not? With the hogs the free feed, and got exclusive rights to a distillery's grain, is a no brainer. Our County Ag Commission had a meeting a couple weeks ago and actually had all the different ag programs broken down, line item, investment, and projected profit. There are some opportunities out there that dont require too much of the existing property. One thing they broke down that was the most profitable ag bus. here was Pecan Orchards. Heck on 120 acres projected profit was $98,000 a year. Cattle were projected a loss(only using sale barn as market) this year, lets not talk about how much of a loss they said, but in the other thread, as stated, I will not get out of cattle. But to diversify is protecting myself from the complete crash of one commodity like when I lost my tail when COOL repealed and Brazil allowed back in. On 100 acre place I will never make a "living" off of cattle but if I diversify I could pay some bills with other ag programs. I just hit my 40's. God allowing I still have time to get those projects done.

 

[Stocker Steve]

Can the cattle graze under the pecan trees?

 

[Jogeephus]

Can the cattle graze under the pecan trees?

Depends on whether they are irrigated or not. If irrigated with drip its best not to but you can cut hay in the middles. Lots of good hay is grown under pecans here.

 

[BK9954]

And I literally have over 30 natural pecan tree's here. This place is good for it. But diversify. Pecans, pigs while I have the line on feed, bee's only take a few acres and people say there is good money in goats. My reservation about goats is you have to worm those suckers minimum every month, but there is a good market for them. So much that the US imports goat meat to keep up with demand. I am a workaholic. I have the cattle under control so now I can take on other ventures.

 

[John86045]

thanks

 

[TexasBred]

^That sounds like every other 'new farmer' around here. May as well grow some veggies, spin wool and raise odd breeds of chickens to keep up though. They always seem to be bent out of shape about raw milk too. :???:

When opportunity arrises, why not? With the hogs the free feed, and got exclusive rights to a distillery's grain, is a no brainer. Our County Ag Commission had a meeting a couple weeks ago and actually had all the different ag programs broken down, line item, investment, and projected profit. There are some opportunities out there that dont require too much of the existing property. One thing they broke down that was the most profitable ag bus. here was Pecan Orchards. Heck on 120 acres projected profit was $98,000 a year. Cattle were projected a loss(only using sale barn as market) this year, lets not talk about how much of a loss they said, but in the other thread, as stated, I will not get out of cattle. But to diversify is protecting myself from the complete crash of one commodity like when I lost my tail when COOL repealed and Brazil allowed back in. On 100 acre place I will never make a "living" off of cattle but if I diversify I could pay some bills with other ag programs. I just hit my 40's. God allowing I still have time to get those projects done.

Gonna take those pecan trees a while to become productive, several a year will die and a lot of time is spent on spraying and mowing. I'm told average production on a good orchard is $1000 gross per acre. Might be able to do it.