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<blockquote data-quote="Stocker Steve" data-source="post: 1418805" data-attributes="member: 1715"><p>I agree that repairing used equipment, or buying new equipment, can eat you up. But I think that the investment points are personal choices in most cases.</p><p></p><p>Our local low cost producer has a skid steer, a stock trailer, and a flatbed. He doubled his herd size recently w/o any additional equipment. For folks who want to own a full line of equipment - - it seems like they need to be > 150 commodity cows to be effective.</p><p></p><p>A regional expert is pushing back grounding your calves (because cows cannot pay the bills). Another expert is pointing out that back grounding is not profitable most years. Seems to be an issue of overhead and ADG. I bought about $1000 of corral panels to background my calves so the additional investment was minimal. Either I am good or way over capitalized. :?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stocker Steve, post: 1418805, member: 1715"] I agree that repairing used equipment, or buying new equipment, can eat you up. But I think that the investment points are personal choices in most cases. Our local low cost producer has a skid steer, a stock trailer, and a flatbed. He doubled his herd size recently w/o any additional equipment. For folks who want to own a full line of equipment - - it seems like they need to be > 150 commodity cows to be effective. A regional expert is pushing back grounding your calves (because cows cannot pay the bills). Another expert is pointing out that back grounding is not profitable most years. Seems to be an issue of overhead and ADG. I bought about $1000 of corral panels to background my calves so the additional investment was minimal. Either I am good or way over capitalized. :? [/QUOTE]
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