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<blockquote data-quote="js1234" data-source="post: 1377243" data-attributes="member: 17596"><p>The issue is the volume that one has to operate on to make a really great living in this business. Also, there is the challenge that some degree of vertical integration is needed to consistently capture a profit on most of the sets of cattle one owns.</p><p>The best operations in the world own sets of cattle that lose money, every year. </p><p>Another factor is that the size that it truly takes to be a large ranch that can capture economies of scale is very, very, very hard to build from scratch to today unless there are significant outside cash sources.</p><p>In the economics of today's market place, a guy running a couple hundred mother cows, while he certainly can be consistantly profitable, really is operating at a sideline business level.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="js1234, post: 1377243, member: 17596"] The issue is the volume that one has to operate on to make a really great living in this business. Also, there is the challenge that some degree of vertical integration is needed to consistently capture a profit on most of the sets of cattle one owns. The best operations in the world own sets of cattle that lose money, every year. Another factor is that the size that it truly takes to be a large ranch that can capture economies of scale is very, very, very hard to build from scratch to today unless there are significant outside cash sources. In the economics of today's market place, a guy running a couple hundred mother cows, while he certainly can be consistantly profitable, really is operating at a sideline business level. [/QUOTE]
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