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RAISING BEEF CATTLE ON A FEW ACRES
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<blockquote data-quote="greggy" data-source="post: 1574752" data-attributes="member: 38479"><p>Yeah, I think cattle do not add up unless you have a plan, break even if you ignore most of the costs may be the more likely outcome.</p><p></p><p>Arizona is pretty dry from what I know, but we are in a bad drought here, and I have way too many animals according to everyone, including my boss, but I decided I want to learn more and was committed to hand feeding, so profit is not so important ATM.</p><p></p><p>If you get back to the nuts and bolts of it all, at least down here, unless you inherit the land and working equipment, or are very good at doing this and buying right, it is going to be a loss making venture, land is very expensive even with cheap interest rates, good land is hard to get even if you have money too burn and do not care about loss, and you need a lot of land and ability to carry a lot of animals.</p><p></p><p>I know someone who earns a modest living from 100 acre of land where pasture grows year round if there is rain, but this excludes the buying costs from donkeys years ago, and current land value etc.</p><p></p><p>In the drought, it is pretty clear you will lose if you do conventional things, cause the hay will cost more than what the animals will ever bring.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greggy, post: 1574752, member: 38479"] Yeah, I think cattle do not add up unless you have a plan, break even if you ignore most of the costs may be the more likely outcome. Arizona is pretty dry from what I know, but we are in a bad drought here, and I have way too many animals according to everyone, including my boss, but I decided I want to learn more and was committed to hand feeding, so profit is not so important ATM. If you get back to the nuts and bolts of it all, at least down here, unless you inherit the land and working equipment, or are very good at doing this and buying right, it is going to be a loss making venture, land is very expensive even with cheap interest rates, good land is hard to get even if you have money too burn and do not care about loss, and you need a lot of land and ability to carry a lot of animals. I know someone who earns a modest living from 100 acre of land where pasture grows year round if there is rain, but this excludes the buying costs from donkeys years ago, and current land value etc. In the drought, it is pretty clear you will lose if you do conventional things, cause the hay will cost more than what the animals will ever bring. [/QUOTE]
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