Menu
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
New profile posts
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Forums
Non-Cattle Specific Topics
Every Thing Else Board
Grass finished beef
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Help Support CattleToday:
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 1169"><p>A couple expenses you forgot though is return on your land and land tax as well as fencing costs. <p>If your land is worth $500 an acre and it takes 10 acres to finish one steer ( you have to feed his momma too, it could take alot more) that's a $5000 investment. Figure an 8% return and your expense on the steer is $400.<p>Here land is worth $800-$1000 an acre and would take 40 acres to raise one steer to finish. That's $32000 at 8% = $2460, more than twice the gross of the steer, and that's just on the land.<p>Another way to figure your grass cost is to count what you could get for it to rent it out. If it's $10 a head per month you have to add that in.<p>It may give you a shock to figure in these costs, but you have to protect your equity. You won't forever be able to raise enough steers to live on, (sickness / retirement), and then selling the land may cause a terrible tax burden leaving you destitute at some point.<p>Jason Trowbridge<br>Southern Angus Farms<br>Alberta Canada</p><p><br></p><p><br><hr size=4 width=75%><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> <a href="mailto:trow@bigfoot.com">trow@bigfoot.com</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 1169"] A couple expenses you forgot though is return on your land and land tax as well as fencing costs. <p>If your land is worth $500 an acre and it takes 10 acres to finish one steer ( you have to feed his momma too, it could take alot more) that's a $5000 investment. Figure an 8% return and your expense on the steer is $400.<p>Here land is worth $800-$1000 an acre and would take 40 acres to raise one steer to finish. That's $32000 at 8% = $2460, more than twice the gross of the steer, and that's just on the land.<p>Another way to figure your grass cost is to count what you could get for it to rent it out. If it's $10 a head per month you have to add that in.<p>It may give you a shock to figure in these costs, but you have to protect your equity. You won't forever be able to raise enough steers to live on, (sickness / retirement), and then selling the land may cause a terrible tax burden leaving you destitute at some point.<p>Jason Trowbridge<br>Southern Angus Farms<br>Alberta Canada <br> <br><hr size=4 width=75%><p> [email=trow@bigfoot.com]trow@bigfoot.com[/email] [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Non-Cattle Specific Topics
Every Thing Else Board
Grass finished beef
Top