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<blockquote data-quote="TexasRancher" data-source="post: 1824685" data-attributes="member: 8359"><p>[USER=43394]@Burwabit[/USER] , Do not be discouraged...you have enough land to succeed very well in the cattle business...it'll take 5 to 10 years to get your fields polished and organized, cattle proven out, systems in place. With 100 head plus a few bulls...I cannot see where you can't make 1/2 to 1/3 of your calving sales as profits if you don't included your labor-hours. I'm 1/10th that size. 4th year, finally making profit now...coming off two hard years of drought. Keep the steel equipment to a minimum...fixing old and broken stuff is costly...if you don't own it you won't need to fix it $....filters, oil, belts, tires, lube, bearings. Cattlemen complain a lot ...but have you seen all their nice farm toys and trucks? Do not be deceived....lots of money in cattle if you keep it simple...dump lots of lambsquarter seeds and giant rag weed seeds into a few paddocks in the far back plots of your land....lots of fall/winter grazing without buying hay. Turns out those weeds are a blessing in disguise. I'd be sunk without 5 foot lambsquarter in these droughts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TexasRancher, post: 1824685, member: 8359"] [USER=43394]@Burwabit[/USER] , Do not be discouraged...you have enough land to succeed very well in the cattle business...it'll take 5 to 10 years to get your fields polished and organized, cattle proven out, systems in place. With 100 head plus a few bulls...I cannot see where you can't make 1/2 to 1/3 of your calving sales as profits if you don't included your labor-hours. I'm 1/10th that size. 4th year, finally making profit now...coming off two hard years of drought. Keep the steel equipment to a minimum...fixing old and broken stuff is costly...if you don't own it you won't need to fix it $....filters, oil, belts, tires, lube, bearings. Cattlemen complain a lot ...but have you seen all their nice farm toys and trucks? Do not be deceived....lots of money in cattle if you keep it simple...dump lots of lambsquarter seeds and giant rag weed seeds into a few paddocks in the far back plots of your land....lots of fall/winter grazing without buying hay. Turns out those weeds are a blessing in disguise. I'd be sunk without 5 foot lambsquarter in these droughts. [/QUOTE]
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