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<blockquote data-quote="norriscathy" data-source="post: 165328" data-attributes="member: 2961"><p>Interesting post; most of the row crop farms (plantations) in the Red River Valley shut down years ago, still a few trying to hand on. I think the same principles that you mentioned also apply to cattle operations. You still need a tractor if you have 20 cows or 400, the same hay baler will put up 2000 rolls just as easily as it will 200. One of the major problems with the cattle industry is that so many people are in it with 10 to 30 head that could care less if they made a profit or not. Kind of hard to compete with that. But a major consolidation is staring to occur. The average cow herd in Texas used to be 30 cows; in the last few years I believe that number has increased to 40 or 45. The question is how are we going to compete with South America? North Carolina recently spent 10 million dollars to build better soybean facilities at its ports. It is cheaper for Carolina hog farmers to buy soybeans from Brazil than it is from Arkansas! Don't know how agriculture will survive in this country.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="norriscathy, post: 165328, member: 2961"] Interesting post; most of the row crop farms (plantations) in the Red River Valley shut down years ago, still a few trying to hand on. I think the same principles that you mentioned also apply to cattle operations. You still need a tractor if you have 20 cows or 400, the same hay baler will put up 2000 rolls just as easily as it will 200. One of the major problems with the cattle industry is that so many people are in it with 10 to 30 head that could care less if they made a profit or not. Kind of hard to compete with that. But a major consolidation is staring to occur. The average cow herd in Texas used to be 30 cows; in the last few years I believe that number has increased to 40 or 45. The question is how are we going to compete with South America? North Carolina recently spent 10 million dollars to build better soybean facilities at its ports. It is cheaper for Carolina hog farmers to buy soybeans from Brazil than it is from Arkansas! Don't know how agriculture will survive in this country. [/QUOTE]
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