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<blockquote data-quote="Herefordcross" data-source="post: 267546" data-attributes="member: 3860"><p>Caustic Burno </p><p> </p><p></p><p>Caustic last year due to several factors I was at $368 a head. </p><p></p><p>I can understand your frustration with so many people flooding the market part timers hobby people and tax break people. Here's an example for you. I have a friend whose grandmother left him and his brother 131 acre farm with a house and two barns on it. Tornado came through and tore every building down and they had no insurance on the buildings, they did on the house, that's just a side note. They make a fair income but, nothing to get rich off of from their normal jobs .In order to afford the taxes on the farm they keep 50 brood cows and a bull on the place yet they don't have time for the cattle, had a pinkeye outbreak and the only time they could work the cattle was on sunday so I helped 'em out and did whatever I could for 'em. Sold all of the calves from this year last monday and all but, a handful were blind. So you know how much money they lost over calves with good eyes. He told me when I went up to get the calves and take 'em to the sale barn that they had just spent the last few thousand left from the ins. on the house for prp. taxes and a few thousand feet of fence and new well and a couple of water hydrants. He said that the cows would have to carry the taxes from now on and if not they would have to sell the place. The new homes around here and building have raised taxes terribly! They tried the renting thing and people just didn't keep up to their fences and they're only about a 1/2 mile off of the intersatate so that didn't work out for 'em. And there's an old fishing lease through the state forever, to allow people to fish in the stream on the property which they have to carry extra liability insurance for, because all of our new CITY people neighbors might drown in 12" of water or get swept away by a massive tidal wave. So they just add roughly fifety calves to the sale once a year that really wouldn't need to be there but, they're doing it to try to hold on to the home place. So I don't know what you do in that situation. And they're not the only ones. You ought to hear my vet tell the story of a DR. that came here, bought a place and started buying cows to save on property taxes and when he got the last few heifers from the sale barn within three weeks the whole bunch was dead from what was assumed was some sort of shipping fever the Dr. had 'em disposed of and went and bought more then paid the vet to vac/worm/dehorn and the rest and our vet paid me to help and it was a big joke. I have to work off of our place to pay my $7,200 a year health insurance bill on me my wife and two daughters. Sorry for ramblin' on and on but, I know what you feel like sometimes. They'll have a feeder sale and these dr's and lawyers creep feed until their calves are gorged because the feed store has shinny creep feeders sitting on the lot and of course the feed store doesn't mind keeping those feeders full of 16% protein feed at a few hundred a ton and I can't say I blame 'em but, I can't afford to creep all of the time every time that I'm gettin' ready to ship a lot of fed calves. I would loose my behind if I did that. I'll quit now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Herefordcross, post: 267546, member: 3860"] Caustic Burno Caustic last year due to several factors I was at $368 a head. I can understand your frustration with so many people flooding the market part timers hobby people and tax break people. Here's an example for you. I have a friend whose grandmother left him and his brother 131 acre farm with a house and two barns on it. Tornado came through and tore every building down and they had no insurance on the buildings, they did on the house, that's just a side note. They make a fair income but, nothing to get rich off of from their normal jobs .In order to afford the taxes on the farm they keep 50 brood cows and a bull on the place yet they don't have time for the cattle, had a pinkeye outbreak and the only time they could work the cattle was on sunday so I helped 'em out and did whatever I could for 'em. Sold all of the calves from this year last monday and all but, a handful were blind. So you know how much money they lost over calves with good eyes. He told me when I went up to get the calves and take 'em to the sale barn that they had just spent the last few thousand left from the ins. on the house for prp. taxes and a few thousand feet of fence and new well and a couple of water hydrants. He said that the cows would have to carry the taxes from now on and if not they would have to sell the place. The new homes around here and building have raised taxes terribly! They tried the renting thing and people just didn't keep up to their fences and they're only about a 1/2 mile off of the intersatate so that didn't work out for 'em. And there's an old fishing lease through the state forever, to allow people to fish in the stream on the property which they have to carry extra liability insurance for, because all of our new CITY people neighbors might drown in 12" of water or get swept away by a massive tidal wave. So they just add roughly fifety calves to the sale once a year that really wouldn't need to be there but, they're doing it to try to hold on to the home place. So I don't know what you do in that situation. And they're not the only ones. You ought to hear my vet tell the story of a DR. that came here, bought a place and started buying cows to save on property taxes and when he got the last few heifers from the sale barn within three weeks the whole bunch was dead from what was assumed was some sort of shipping fever the Dr. had 'em disposed of and went and bought more then paid the vet to vac/worm/dehorn and the rest and our vet paid me to help and it was a big joke. I have to work off of our place to pay my $7,200 a year health insurance bill on me my wife and two daughters. Sorry for ramblin' on and on but, I know what you feel like sometimes. They'll have a feeder sale and these dr's and lawyers creep feed until their calves are gorged because the feed store has shinny creep feeders sitting on the lot and of course the feed store doesn't mind keeping those feeders full of 16% protein feed at a few hundred a ton and I can't say I blame 'em but, I can't afford to creep all of the time every time that I'm gettin' ready to ship a lot of fed calves. I would loose my behind if I did that. I'll quit now. [/QUOTE]
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