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Is now a good time to invest in cow calf operation
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<blockquote data-quote="Darhawk" data-source="post: 501104" data-attributes="member: 7766"><p>Your point on stockers is "yes" provided you can get quality, healthy calves at low price and control costs to sale at a high price. What I was focussing on is your question "is now a good time to invest in cow calf opertion", which is to say you are looking for the right time to enter to generate maximum yield in profitability. You're obviously looking at the entry point to where there is the shortest time to return. You were in the business, got out, went into goats and branched into horses, and now want back into cows. So reading between the lines is maximum profit from low up front cost investment. Cow-calf pairs are still selling decently, but singly the market seems iffy, at least to me. My over riding point is that one needs to sit down, write out the goals, develop a business plan, and commit the the plan into action once finalized. I don't know your age, your income, your financing possiblities, etc., and so can't honestly tell you at what point to enter. As you see from the others answering here, they're giving you the solid good advice with honest thoughts as to whether now is good or not. But they can no better guess your goal than I can.</p><p></p><p>So the question remains, what are you wanting to achieve?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Darhawk, post: 501104, member: 7766"] Your point on stockers is "yes" provided you can get quality, healthy calves at low price and control costs to sale at a high price. What I was focussing on is your question "is now a good time to invest in cow calf opertion", which is to say you are looking for the right time to enter to generate maximum yield in profitability. You're obviously looking at the entry point to where there is the shortest time to return. You were in the business, got out, went into goats and branched into horses, and now want back into cows. So reading between the lines is maximum profit from low up front cost investment. Cow-calf pairs are still selling decently, but singly the market seems iffy, at least to me. My over riding point is that one needs to sit down, write out the goals, develop a business plan, and commit the the plan into action once finalized. I don't know your age, your income, your financing possiblities, etc., and so can't honestly tell you at what point to enter. As you see from the others answering here, they're giving you the solid good advice with honest thoughts as to whether now is good or not. But they can no better guess your goal than I can. So the question remains, what are you wanting to achieve? [/QUOTE]
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