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<blockquote data-quote="Jafruech" data-source="post: 1702122" data-attributes="member: 24025"><p>If you want to be in WI, stay there. You can make it work and make it be profitable. You just need to understand the laws and your market... And there is plenty of market there. Not where I would choose but there's probably reason you chose there from family to job reasons. </p><p></p><p>I don't know what you're stocking rate is going to be there. Talk to local ranchers and the NRCS to get a baseline. Cows might be able to pay for the land there. They can't here. Typical stocking rate here is 1 pair per 30 acres on a good year. 1 per 50-100 on a drought year. Last year 100 acres couldn't feed a cow for a month. </p><p></p><p>There was a time land was cheap enough to make it work, but now with the market dry land with no water is going for 3000 an acre. But there is a lot of state land available to bid leases on and BLM as well. I would start by leasing ground there if you can find it. Use your profits to build your herd till you outgrow the leases. Then use your profits to buy land outright if you want to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jafruech, post: 1702122, member: 24025"] If you want to be in WI, stay there. You can make it work and make it be profitable. You just need to understand the laws and your market... And there is plenty of market there. Not where I would choose but there's probably reason you chose there from family to job reasons. I don't know what you're stocking rate is going to be there. Talk to local ranchers and the NRCS to get a baseline. Cows might be able to pay for the land there. They can't here. Typical stocking rate here is 1 pair per 30 acres on a good year. 1 per 50-100 on a drought year. Last year 100 acres couldn't feed a cow for a month. There was a time land was cheap enough to make it work, but now with the market dry land with no water is going for 3000 an acre. But there is a lot of state land available to bid leases on and BLM as well. I would start by leasing ground there if you can find it. Use your profits to build your herd till you outgrow the leases. Then use your profits to buy land outright if you want to. [/QUOTE]
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