Dave
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Don't get hung up on the idea of owning land to start out. You can lease cheaper than own and starting out it is much cheaper to get into a lease than into ownership.
Dave":22fe9gy5 said:Don't get hung up on the idea of owning land to start out. You can lease cheaper than own and starting out it is much cheaper to get into a lease than into ownership.
ez14.":16g5ztpx said:Well I don't really have a farm but I am single! Just thought I'd throw that out there :lol: (and I have some cattle)
shaz":fjsnn7r5 said:Grew up on a 30 acre hobby farm about 10 miles north of Huntsville Al. Decided to get back into farming around 2001 so I just cut hay for a while. Started this farm in Tn in 2005 on some of my dad's land then bought 173 acres that joined it. Bought another 25 acre hay field across the hwy in 2008.
I'm in the cow calf business but have no breeding strategy. The farm is profitable because I don't feed hay until sometime in Jan.
willow bottom":1ewzp5u6 said:shaz":1ewzp5u6 said:Grew up on a 30 acre hobby farm about 10 miles north of Huntsville Al. Decided to get back into farming around 2001 so I just cut hay for a while. Started this farm in Tn in 2005 on some of my dad's land then bought 173 acres that joined it. Bought another 25 acre hay field across the hwy in 2008.
I'm in the cow calf business but have no breeding strategy. The farm is profitable because I don't feed hay until sometime in Jan.
How do you get by without feeding hay until Jan?
I love that song!Farm Fence Solutions":hfqw90fb said:My Grandad still farmed a little and had some livestock when I was a kid. I guess that's where I got the bug, but it wasn't until I was a teenager before I really got any good exposure or owned any cattle. Against my parents wishes, I took up roping calves and steer wrestling, and having practice stock was a part of it. I went to agricultural colleges, but it was after school when I went to work on a fair sized cow/calf operation that I decided momma cows were in my future. Bought a little place, married the right woman, and the first thing we bought together was about 75 bucket calves. Bad plan. Now we have some mommas, and a feedlot to fill when the market is right. Good luck in your plans. I'd say you're on the right track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKoYT4febHM
Wish you good luck.1wlimo":2wustnxc said:I grew up with them. Was given my first calf of my own when i was 9. Paid for the feed and keep by working every night after school with my grandfather.
Bought my first heifers for a start in cow/calf in my final year of collage. BSE lost me money there, and working too many hours for others no way to reduce my costs so got out. 10 years ago years of work down the drain I got back into cattle managing a place, then when that went under I finally wound up when I am now. Back with my third attempt at my own cow/calf operation me and my wife just bought our own land for the first time. Should give us a better foot hold in the industry. So I run my own, have joint venture, and run some on custom work, but my wife pays for me to live.
Maybe you and ez14 should get together and discuss each of your future aspirations.OwnedByTheCow":3a1qadc9 said:I've been thinking about the question for myself a lot recently. With considering college or not and how I'm going to manage making it so my life never sees a day without cows. Unfortunately it seems as though the only financially reasonable options to get a farm are to either mary into cattle or convince someone into letting me have their farm.
It makes me wonder, how did y'all get into farming and how are you making your operations work?
Ryder":3qdp1ye9 said:Maybe you and ez14 should get together and discuss each of your future aspirations.OwnedByTheCow":3qdp1ye9 said:I've been thinking about the question for myself a lot recently. With considering college or not and how I'm going to manage making it so my life never sees a day without cows. Unfortunately it seems as though the only financially reasonable options to get a farm are to either mary into cattle or convince someone into letting me have their farm.
It makes me wonder, how did y'all get into farming and how are you making your operations work?
He is graduating from high school and judging from his posts I think he is more mature than most his age and I would guess he is a hard worker and also a gentleman.
You could go over to his post about graduation party and congratulate him on his graduation and kind of flutter your eyes at the same time.
Chances are you could get invited to his graduation party and so on.
M-5":3goj00xc said:"you don't have to be lonely at cattletodayonly.com "