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<blockquote data-quote="Bama" data-source="post: 351192" data-attributes="member: 1184"><p>Best way to look at is how much your making per acre. Your land is set, even when you rent or by more. You still have a certain amount of land. Now what is the most cost effective way to make money from that land. Yes you can sell bred heifers for more than a 600 pound weined calf. Now think how long that heifer spends on that land. That heifer is taking the place of more profitable cattle than can turn a profit faster. Remember you only have so much land to work with, you need to find the most profitable return to investment over a certain period of time. I track mine by how many dollars I make a day. Yea, I will keep a heifer occasionally. But she will be one of my absulute best that there ain't no way of replacing for nothing near what it will cost me to keep her up till breeding. There are times when keeping heifers pay off, most of the time it don't. I don't like buying bred heifers either. Your taking a chance. I can buy one with a calf by her side and its a known. Buying a known is much less risky than buying a unknown. If you do buy a unknown and everthing works out well, what have you really gained. One calf out of a cows lifetime ain't worth the chance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bama, post: 351192, member: 1184"] Best way to look at is how much your making per acre. Your land is set, even when you rent or by more. You still have a certain amount of land. Now what is the most cost effective way to make money from that land. Yes you can sell bred heifers for more than a 600 pound weined calf. Now think how long that heifer spends on that land. That heifer is taking the place of more profitable cattle than can turn a profit faster. Remember you only have so much land to work with, you need to find the most profitable return to investment over a certain period of time. I track mine by how many dollars I make a day. Yea, I will keep a heifer occasionally. But she will be one of my absulute best that there ain't no way of replacing for nothing near what it will cost me to keep her up till breeding. There are times when keeping heifers pay off, most of the time it don't. I don't like buying bred heifers either. Your taking a chance. I can buy one with a calf by her side and its a known. Buying a known is much less risky than buying a unknown. If you do buy a unknown and everthing works out well, what have you really gained. One calf out of a cows lifetime ain't worth the chance. [/QUOTE]
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