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<blockquote data-quote="rockridgecattle" data-source="post: 711498" data-attributes="member: 6198"><p>OWWW that hurts.</p><p></p><p>Here, last wednesday, the prices rose 15 cents with the dollar dropping. Sad day in the cattle business when we are offered .70 - .75 cents lb. Sad when .95 looks good</p><p>You know we made more on a barrel of honey. 45 gall drums weigh 630LBs with honey. Right now honey is $1.50 - $1.60 with an anticpated climb to $2.00 by Christmas. I do not think we will see $2.00. If it does go 2 it will crash quite fast to .80 cents. </p><p>When watching the cattle, not just ours going through the ring and the buyers picking out a calf with frozen ears (we had two frozens and they stayed home), all i thought was, the buyers do not pick out honey like that. You send them a sample of honey any your price is based on color, moisture, and some florals. The flower does not matter as much as the color and moisture.</p><p>All beeks get paid close to the same price for their honey.</p><p>at .80 a barrel is $504.00 </p><p>at 1.60 a barrel is $1008.00</p><p>There are two major differences with beekeeping and cattle. Beekeeping is much harder work and more physical, but you get the winters off. As well the risk of losing greater than 30% of your hives over winter is big. You are really dependant on the weather. As long as you can keep your losses down, you are doing ok. The part about losses are, if you retain at least 50% of your hives through winter, you can make up your losses with splits. That said, if you lose alot, you can not sell bees or increase.</p><p>Cattle, the physical work is at calving and haying. You still work through the winter feeding cows. The work is less strenous, and you are less likely to loose 30% of your herd on any given year.</p><p>Our area has seen a big shift out of cattle. In our little hamlets ( individual communities), we have seen several cattle producers get out of the business and go into leaf cutters, sellers of hay, grain farming, forage seed. There are more anticipated sell offs this year as anything less than $500.00 ahead is losing $'s</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rockridgecattle, post: 711498, member: 6198"] OWWW that hurts. Here, last wednesday, the prices rose 15 cents with the dollar dropping. Sad day in the cattle business when we are offered .70 - .75 cents lb. Sad when .95 looks good You know we made more on a barrel of honey. 45 gall drums weigh 630LBs with honey. Right now honey is $1.50 - $1.60 with an anticpated climb to $2.00 by Christmas. I do not think we will see $2.00. If it does go 2 it will crash quite fast to .80 cents. When watching the cattle, not just ours going through the ring and the buyers picking out a calf with frozen ears (we had two frozens and they stayed home), all i thought was, the buyers do not pick out honey like that. You send them a sample of honey any your price is based on color, moisture, and some florals. The flower does not matter as much as the color and moisture. All beeks get paid close to the same price for their honey. at .80 a barrel is $504.00 at 1.60 a barrel is $1008.00 There are two major differences with beekeeping and cattle. Beekeeping is much harder work and more physical, but you get the winters off. As well the risk of losing greater than 30% of your hives over winter is big. You are really dependant on the weather. As long as you can keep your losses down, you are doing ok. The part about losses are, if you retain at least 50% of your hives through winter, you can make up your losses with splits. That said, if you lose alot, you can not sell bees or increase. Cattle, the physical work is at calving and haying. You still work through the winter feeding cows. The work is less strenous, and you are less likely to loose 30% of your herd on any given year. Our area has seen a big shift out of cattle. In our little hamlets ( individual communities), we have seen several cattle producers get out of the business and go into leaf cutters, sellers of hay, grain farming, forage seed. There are more anticipated sell offs this year as anything less than $500.00 ahead is losing $'s [/QUOTE]
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