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<blockquote data-quote="JSCATTLE" data-source="post: 1303042" data-attributes="member: 16648"><p>I'm doing basically the same thing you are doing in 2008 .. Although I have been around cattle for a lot longer. At one point I had 700 acres leased and bought 200. The last big drought in texas got me .. I still run cows on my land but let the leases go back.. I now have 40 momma cows on about 110 acres of pasture and 90 acres of clear cut/ mixed grasses.. I also have 25 acres at my house that I have cut for hay .. This year I'm turning that into pasture to raise heifers .. Buy just what you will need .. Don't go buy tractors balers etc.. You can run enough cows on your hay ground to buy hay and then some .. Get your working pens and shoot in order before you buy cows.. I use to pasture rope them to dr .. It's not fun doing that by yourself . Soil test your place and get your grass growing the way it should.. I'd start out with 40 or so bred cows .. Work up from there to full stocking rate. That will allow you to work on your place and still make some money .. Leasing won't generate much money .. And if there are gonna be cows on it might as well be yours.. When I sell calves I budget money for hay winter rye grass and taxes .. Anything left goes into a future payment account to pay the land note .. I bought the majority of my cows before prices jumped .. I've been holding 5 heifers year as replacements .. I feed them for a month and then turn them on rye grass until they go back in with the cows. I paid for a cab tractor baler cutter and rake bailing for other people .. Paid my cows off with cow money in 3 years .. This year i was able to put 12000 in future payment for my land note .. That's 2400 short of paying the note for the year ... Oh and I no longer pay 1500 bucks for a deer lease that covers my land taxes .. It's a lot of work .. I work shift work and work about 900 hours of overtime a year .. And I still manage just fine .. Sucks putting out hay in the dark but its only for3 months .. To me its just as easy to feed and tend 80 head as it is 20 ..good luck .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JSCATTLE, post: 1303042, member: 16648"] I'm doing basically the same thing you are doing in 2008 .. Although I have been around cattle for a lot longer. At one point I had 700 acres leased and bought 200. The last big drought in texas got me .. I still run cows on my land but let the leases go back.. I now have 40 momma cows on about 110 acres of pasture and 90 acres of clear cut/ mixed grasses.. I also have 25 acres at my house that I have cut for hay .. This year I'm turning that into pasture to raise heifers .. Buy just what you will need .. Don't go buy tractors balers etc.. You can run enough cows on your hay ground to buy hay and then some .. Get your working pens and shoot in order before you buy cows.. I use to pasture rope them to dr .. It's not fun doing that by yourself . Soil test your place and get your grass growing the way it should.. I'd start out with 40 or so bred cows .. Work up from there to full stocking rate. That will allow you to work on your place and still make some money .. Leasing won't generate much money .. And if there are gonna be cows on it might as well be yours.. When I sell calves I budget money for hay winter rye grass and taxes .. Anything left goes into a future payment account to pay the land note .. I bought the majority of my cows before prices jumped .. I've been holding 5 heifers year as replacements .. I feed them for a month and then turn them on rye grass until they go back in with the cows. I paid for a cab tractor baler cutter and rake bailing for other people .. Paid my cows off with cow money in 3 years .. This year i was able to put 12000 in future payment for my land note .. That's 2400 short of paying the note for the year ... Oh and I no longer pay 1500 bucks for a deer lease that covers my land taxes .. It's a lot of work .. I work shift work and work about 900 hours of overtime a year .. And I still manage just fine .. Sucks putting out hay in the dark but its only for3 months .. To me its just as easy to feed and tend 80 head as it is 20 ..good luck . [/QUOTE]
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