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<blockquote data-quote="Stocker Steve" data-source="post: 576276" data-attributes="member: 1715"><p>Grain growers on less than ideal land are used to spending more per acre than the crop is worth. The difference today is the $ per acre has increased and they do not get LDP. Cash rents have doubled in my area over the last two years even though there have not been a good corn yield for the last three. I lost money on droughty corn last year <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> and I seeded all of my remaining plow ground to alfalfa or red clover this spring.</p><p></p><p>Beef growers on less than ideal land have another option. Today hay is being sold in many areas for less than its fertilizer value. I sold the creep feeders I bought when corn was $1.60 per bushel. I am currently buying a lot of hay, some K to balance out the P, a lot of lime, and clover seed. This keeps the beef operation in the black and improves my soil - - but my stocking density and my profit per acre are not as high as when I applied cheap N twice a year and yearlings sold for $114/cwt.. I am not meeting some of my goals and so I am not satisfied with this coping approach.</p><p></p><p>I could cash flow grazing land a couple years ago but many things have changed now. I think we have experienced a "Black Swan" event. It seems the magic of mob grazing, and lower input forages, are needed to prosper.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stocker Steve, post: 576276, member: 1715"] Grain growers on less than ideal land are used to spending more per acre than the crop is worth. The difference today is the $ per acre has increased and they do not get LDP. Cash rents have doubled in my area over the last two years even though there have not been a good corn yield for the last three. I lost money on droughty corn last year :( and I seeded all of my remaining plow ground to alfalfa or red clover this spring. Beef growers on less than ideal land have another option. Today hay is being sold in many areas for less than its fertilizer value. I sold the creep feeders I bought when corn was $1.60 per bushel. I am currently buying a lot of hay, some K to balance out the P, a lot of lime, and clover seed. This keeps the beef operation in the black and improves my soil - - but my stocking density and my profit per acre are not as high as when I applied cheap N twice a year and yearlings sold for $114/cwt.. I am not meeting some of my goals and so I am not satisfied with this coping approach. I could cash flow grazing land a couple years ago but many things have changed now. I think we have experienced a "Black Swan" event. It seems the magic of mob grazing, and lower input forages, are needed to prosper. [/QUOTE]
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