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<blockquote data-quote="Caustic Burno" data-source="post: 725852" data-attributes="member: 694"><p>In some ways you are right and some wrong. I have Bahia which is poor grass to start with. </p><p>I can fertilize but I can't control the weather which has as much to do with quality as well.</p><p>When that bale comes off the bailer my cows are stuck with it 6% protien or 12%. I can't afford to supplement a cow to my grass with today's economics. Fertilizer has fluctuated from 300 to 800 a ton over the last few years as well as diesel. That is why I operate on one rule ruthless culling of the herd if a cow is not an easy keeper and doesn't produce a calf every 12 months on my grass and hay she is fired no exceptions. Today's cost to upkeep for one year is 456 dollars a cow that goes one month over 12 months is another 37.50 off the bottom line. </p><p>I can't afford to have welfare cattle with today's inputs and sale price margins are tighter than every.</p><p>The only control we have is input cost, in years when fertilizer was 800 a ton my hay fields fertilizer was cut in half. The day I have to write a check out of my checking account to prop up cows, cows are leaving and I am planting pine trees. </p><p>Our business buy's retail and sales wholesale we have two handles to pull cattle that maximize weight on forage and control input cost.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Caustic Burno, post: 725852, member: 694"] In some ways you are right and some wrong. I have Bahia which is poor grass to start with. I can fertilize but I can't control the weather which has as much to do with quality as well. When that bale comes off the bailer my cows are stuck with it 6% protien or 12%. I can't afford to supplement a cow to my grass with today's economics. Fertilizer has fluctuated from 300 to 800 a ton over the last few years as well as diesel. That is why I operate on one rule ruthless culling of the herd if a cow is not an easy keeper and doesn't produce a calf every 12 months on my grass and hay she is fired no exceptions. Today's cost to upkeep for one year is 456 dollars a cow that goes one month over 12 months is another 37.50 off the bottom line. I can't afford to have welfare cattle with today's inputs and sale price margins are tighter than every. The only control we have is input cost, in years when fertilizer was 800 a ton my hay fields fertilizer was cut in half. The day I have to write a check out of my checking account to prop up cows, cows are leaving and I am planting pine trees. Our business buy's retail and sales wholesale we have two handles to pull cattle that maximize weight on forage and control input cost. [/QUOTE]
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