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<blockquote data-quote="Hogfarmer10" data-source="post: 1829462" data-attributes="member: 41451"><p>I guess I was born into it. 3rd generation in my family. By the time I came to life, my granddad was in his 70's, and my dad was in his 40's. My granddaddy always kept a few Charolais cattle but we were a dairy farm first and foremost. I was brought up to be a dairy farmer, and fully intended to always be one. Until I was a sophomore in high school. Dad became disabled and no matter what, we just couldn't cover for the costs of feed and fertilizer for the upcoming year. So we had to sell out the dairy, which caused a pretty good rift between my dad and granddad. I spent the rest of high school helping granddad. After high school, I managed a neighbor's farm and continuing to help granddad, and eventually started buying cows (private treaty) and putting them on rented ground. As he got older, I basically took over granddaddy's farm, and upon his death, I bought most of the cattle from my dad (he "inherited" them). Dad kept a few but he hasn't even seen them since granddad died (he just isn't able to get out of the house). I just manage them on his behalf). I've slowly gotten the farm more organized via calving seasons, tagging/ banding, and vaccinations. Slowly trying to increase herd numbers but only working with half the acreage (dads sister sold her half of the farm). I'll often be on here asking what seems like silly questions, but I wasn't raised on beef cattle. I appreciate this forum for all the advice and inputs</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hogfarmer10, post: 1829462, member: 41451"] I guess I was born into it. 3rd generation in my family. By the time I came to life, my granddad was in his 70’s, and my dad was in his 40’s. My granddaddy always kept a few Charolais cattle but we were a dairy farm first and foremost. I was brought up to be a dairy farmer, and fully intended to always be one. Until I was a sophomore in high school. Dad became disabled and no matter what, we just couldn’t cover for the costs of feed and fertilizer for the upcoming year. So we had to sell out the dairy, which caused a pretty good rift between my dad and granddad. I spent the rest of high school helping granddad. After high school, I managed a neighbor’s farm and continuing to help granddad, and eventually started buying cows (private treaty) and putting them on rented ground. As he got older, I basically took over granddaddy’s farm, and upon his death, I bought most of the cattle from my dad (he “inherited” them). Dad kept a few but he hasn’t even seen them since granddad died (he just isn’t able to get out of the house). I just manage them on his behalf). I’ve slowly gotten the farm more organized via calving seasons, tagging/ banding, and vaccinations. Slowly trying to increase herd numbers but only working with half the acreage (dads sister sold her half of the farm). I’ll often be on here asking what seems like silly questions, but I wasn’t raised on beef cattle. I appreciate this forum for all the advice and inputs [/QUOTE]
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