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<blockquote data-quote="Jabes0623" data-source="post: 1188256" data-attributes="member: 23051"><p>Obviously a hypothetical question here but I've learned a lot from hindsight in my life & I'm hoping to learn something about cattle from all of yours. I would like answers based on todays economic climate not what you would've done 40 years ago but if you were starting this herd today with an eye toward the future. </p><p></p><p>So you live in Southern Ohio, where the grass is usually plentiful, the weather warm & humid (upper 80's) in the summer & usually fairly mild (30's or 40's most days with lows in the teens) in the winter with occasionally very cold snaps. Almost everyone else's cattle are black. You could produce enough hay on your own land to feed your herd through the 4 months of winter & you were planning on running a herd of 50 cattle on rolling hilly terrain. You already own the land but still want to keep your inputs as low as possible. You could if you wanted to run 2 herds one maternal one terminal, but you don't have to. And you wanted to make money doing it. What type of operation would you set up? Would you go purebred or crossbred? What breed(s) would you run? Would you cater to the replacement heifer market, selling to hobby farmers, grass-fed, terminal beef market, or another market?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jabes0623, post: 1188256, member: 23051"] Obviously a hypothetical question here but I've learned a lot from hindsight in my life & I'm hoping to learn something about cattle from all of yours. I would like answers based on todays economic climate not what you would've done 40 years ago but if you were starting this herd today with an eye toward the future. So you live in Southern Ohio, where the grass is usually plentiful, the weather warm & humid (upper 80's) in the summer & usually fairly mild (30's or 40's most days with lows in the teens) in the winter with occasionally very cold snaps. Almost everyone else's cattle are black. You could produce enough hay on your own land to feed your herd through the 4 months of winter & you were planning on running a herd of 50 cattle on rolling hilly terrain. You already own the land but still want to keep your inputs as low as possible. You could if you wanted to run 2 herds one maternal one terminal, but you don't have to. And you wanted to make money doing it. What type of operation would you set up? Would you go purebred or crossbred? What breed(s) would you run? Would you cater to the replacement heifer market, selling to hobby farmers, grass-fed, terminal beef market, or another market? [/QUOTE]
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