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<blockquote data-quote="agmantoo" data-source="post: 886306" data-attributes="member: 8973"><p>Your statement above is a mindset. Wikipedia defines mindset as "a mindset is a set of assumptions, methods or notations held by one or more people or groups of people which is so established that it creates a powerful incentive within these people or groups to continue to adopt or accept prior behaviors, choices, or tools." There was a time when I fell into that group. I had been in the feeder calf business for roughly 3 years. Prior to that I had tried to be in the feeder pig and pork finishing business. I was also farming crops. I made very little money and took a lot of risks. My overall observations were that as time passed my crop and my meat production outputs increased but so did my inputs. My risks sky rocketed and my income only held or diminished. I decided I would make a change and I did. The crop land I leased to others, I ceased with the pork operation and sold off the equipment. With the feeder calf business I decided I would eliminate all input expenses that I could. Hell never froze and the sky did not fall. I went to rotational grazing before it became popular and ceased to make hay and dropped those expenses, I no longer bought commercial fertilizer, I feed no grain, I ceased to use herbicides on the pastures, I no longer had any need for vet services, I cure the problem or bury the animal. Now I produce animals that can thrive on what my farm produces. You will never see me post that I marketed a calf at weaning that weighed 750 lbs. My farm will not support that. What I do market is a calf that will sell in the top 10% price range for its weigh group. I will share that I am a low cost producer of calves that are profitable even in a bad market. Let me share something with you but not directed to you. A rabbit and a turtle were going down a rutted dirt road. The turtle was in the rut and the rabbit was on the road shoulder. As the rabbit passed the turtle he asked the turtle why he did not get out of the rut and up on the shoulder where the traveling was better? The turtle responded he could not get out of the rut. The rabbit went on. Later when the rabbit was returning via the road he again came upon the turtle who was now out of the rut and own the shoulder. The rabbit said "I thought you told me you could not get out of the rut" The turtle replied " I could not get out of the rut but then a truck was coming and I had to"</p><p>Continuing to live with the constantly increasing inputs cost will IMO result in the producer taking the risks and not participating in the rewards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="agmantoo, post: 886306, member: 8973"] Your statement above is a mindset. Wikipedia defines mindset as "a mindset is a set of assumptions, methods or notations held by one or more people or groups of people which is so established that it creates a powerful incentive within these people or groups to continue to adopt or accept prior behaviors, choices, or tools." There was a time when I fell into that group. I had been in the feeder calf business for roughly 3 years. Prior to that I had tried to be in the feeder pig and pork finishing business. I was also farming crops. I made very little money and took a lot of risks. My overall observations were that as time passed my crop and my meat production outputs increased but so did my inputs. My risks sky rocketed and my income only held or diminished. I decided I would make a change and I did. The crop land I leased to others, I ceased with the pork operation and sold off the equipment. With the feeder calf business I decided I would eliminate all input expenses that I could. Hell never froze and the sky did not fall. I went to rotational grazing before it became popular and ceased to make hay and dropped those expenses, I no longer bought commercial fertilizer, I feed no grain, I ceased to use herbicides on the pastures, I no longer had any need for vet services, I cure the problem or bury the animal. Now I produce animals that can thrive on what my farm produces. You will never see me post that I marketed a calf at weaning that weighed 750 lbs. My farm will not support that. What I do market is a calf that will sell in the top 10% price range for its weigh group. I will share that I am a low cost producer of calves that are profitable even in a bad market. Let me share something with you but not directed to you. A rabbit and a turtle were going down a rutted dirt road. The turtle was in the rut and the rabbit was on the road shoulder. As the rabbit passed the turtle he asked the turtle why he did not get out of the rut and up on the shoulder where the traveling was better? The turtle responded he could not get out of the rut. The rabbit went on. Later when the rabbit was returning via the road he again came upon the turtle who was now out of the rut and own the shoulder. The rabbit said "I thought you told me you could not get out of the rut" The turtle replied " I could not get out of the rut but then a truck was coming and I had to" Continuing to live with the constantly increasing inputs cost will IMO result in the producer taking the risks and not participating in the rewards. [/QUOTE]
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