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<blockquote data-quote="Caustic Burno" data-source="post: 868998" data-attributes="member: 694"><p>It doesn't matter if you have one or a thousand there is still a cost your's might be 50 cents a day it might be two dollars.</p><p>Everytime you crank a tractor, or a truck for the cow's that is an expense,worm, cube, taxes,repair fence. Hay has a cost as well, before I sold my equipment this year it was costing me 36 dollars a bale to bale my own hay. I understand retaining genetics it has a cost that you can't write off as you have already wrote off the upkeep to raise the heifer if she die's. At my cost to retain a heifer would run 1972 dollars that makes no sense. You have 365 days in the dam at 205 days the heifer is a cost you have another 160 day's to get her to a year old another 60 days until breeding age and 283 days before she calf's and another 205 before you sell here calf. You carried the dam for another 365 days with no return. At a dollar a day that retained heifer cost you 1250 bucks. Is it really cheaper to retain your genetics or go buy a working cow with better genetic's. Heifers are a crap shoot to begin with if you loose one there is no write off to a farm raised animal other than the cost to raise and upkeep her. How do really know what she cost? </p><p>I am not picking you or anyone else this is a business. </p><p>I had to make a business decision this year and sold 2/3's of mine and hay equipment. There will be a profit in the drought due to the sell off. I still expect the remaining girls to make money. Why subsidise the American public off your back?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Caustic Burno, post: 868998, member: 694"] It doesn't matter if you have one or a thousand there is still a cost your's might be 50 cents a day it might be two dollars. Everytime you crank a tractor, or a truck for the cow's that is an expense,worm, cube, taxes,repair fence. Hay has a cost as well, before I sold my equipment this year it was costing me 36 dollars a bale to bale my own hay. I understand retaining genetics it has a cost that you can't write off as you have already wrote off the upkeep to raise the heifer if she die's. At my cost to retain a heifer would run 1972 dollars that makes no sense. You have 365 days in the dam at 205 days the heifer is a cost you have another 160 day's to get her to a year old another 60 days until breeding age and 283 days before she calf's and another 205 before you sell here calf. You carried the dam for another 365 days with no return. At a dollar a day that retained heifer cost you 1250 bucks. Is it really cheaper to retain your genetics or go buy a working cow with better genetic's. Heifers are a crap shoot to begin with if you loose one there is no write off to a farm raised animal other than the cost to raise and upkeep her. How do really know what she cost? I am not picking you or anyone else this is a business. I had to make a business decision this year and sold 2/3's of mine and hay equipment. There will be a profit in the drought due to the sell off. I still expect the remaining girls to make money. Why subsidise the American public off your back? [/QUOTE]
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