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<blockquote data-quote="wbvs58" data-source="post: 890224" data-attributes="member: 16453"><p>I have a similiar situation to what you are proposing, but in another country. All of what I make from the cattle plus a bit more goes back into the property, I don't care, I am making improvements all the time, carrying capacity goes up, maybe value goes up, but most importantly I enjoy what I do. I am retired from my previous work, I am now a farmer in that I do everything a farmer does every day, but I don't have the financial worries of a farmer as I have an independant income and owe nothing. One day if I stop spending money on improvements, yes I will make a small profit, but I don't want to stop spending.</p><p>The good thing about the money from sale of the calves is that it comes in one lump sum when calves are sold in autumn, it is then spent slowly throughout the year, you think you are rich for a while.</p><p>One other thing though, it takes a while to build up a good herd of cows, to get a tight calving, to have a good attractive pen of uniform calves, to get the better money for them. Any shortcut to get to this point, I think I would take. Breeding up from young heifer calves to establish the herd, as Cross suggested would be a bit slow, great for adding and fine tuning the herd once you have a solid nucleus cow herd.</p><p>Ken</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wbvs58, post: 890224, member: 16453"] I have a similiar situation to what you are proposing, but in another country. All of what I make from the cattle plus a bit more goes back into the property, I don't care, I am making improvements all the time, carrying capacity goes up, maybe value goes up, but most importantly I enjoy what I do. I am retired from my previous work, I am now a farmer in that I do everything a farmer does every day, but I don't have the financial worries of a farmer as I have an independant income and owe nothing. One day if I stop spending money on improvements, yes I will make a small profit, but I don't want to stop spending. The good thing about the money from sale of the calves is that it comes in one lump sum when calves are sold in autumn, it is then spent slowly throughout the year, you think you are rich for a while. One other thing though, it takes a while to build up a good herd of cows, to get a tight calving, to have a good attractive pen of uniform calves, to get the better money for them. Any shortcut to get to this point, I think I would take. Breeding up from young heifer calves to establish the herd, as Cross suggested would be a bit slow, great for adding and fine tuning the herd once you have a solid nucleus cow herd. Ken [/QUOTE]
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