I'm having a hard time with a decision to let my son run some cows on a piece of property. Sounds crazy... I know.
Back story.
My parents are cleaning up some estate stuff and deeded a piece of family land to us. No surprise, lol, its the one farthest away that we rarely use. My plate is full. My brother is not really in to cattle. We talked about letting my son put some cattle up there. He is 17.
My thoughts.
As bad as it sounds, I'm not really sure if I would be helping him or hurting him for a couple reasons.
Financials are pretty rough on cattle and I'm not going to support a bunch of debt on them at this point.
I feel like he should maybe focus on more pressing things at this time.
I want him to enjoy this time. Starting things really young for me has taken its tole.
It's a tough decision because I would never want to hold an opportunity back from him but at the same time I don't want to dangle a carrot or push him to some thing that may not be in his best interest.
He has no lack of experience in the field from helping me. He has some of his own heifers, etc. It's not like he is not learning all the lessons of an ag life.
I'm leaning toward roping the property in under my "operation", (which is the opposite direction I have been heading, trying to decrease, not increase) but giving the opportunity to head it up, for me. The goal would be to guide or coucil him, not control him. My brother is on board for some thing of this nature also.
Back story.
My parents are cleaning up some estate stuff and deeded a piece of family land to us. No surprise, lol, its the one farthest away that we rarely use. My plate is full. My brother is not really in to cattle. We talked about letting my son put some cattle up there. He is 17.
My thoughts.
As bad as it sounds, I'm not really sure if I would be helping him or hurting him for a couple reasons.
Financials are pretty rough on cattle and I'm not going to support a bunch of debt on them at this point.
I feel like he should maybe focus on more pressing things at this time.
I want him to enjoy this time. Starting things really young for me has taken its tole.
It's a tough decision because I would never want to hold an opportunity back from him but at the same time I don't want to dangle a carrot or push him to some thing that may not be in his best interest.
He has no lack of experience in the field from helping me. He has some of his own heifers, etc. It's not like he is not learning all the lessons of an ag life.
I'm leaning toward roping the property in under my "operation", (which is the opposite direction I have been heading, trying to decrease, not increase) but giving the opportunity to head it up, for me. The goal would be to guide or coucil him, not control him. My brother is on board for some thing of this nature also.