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Stirring the pot on the LH/corriente topic
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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1835115" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>I know this is another long posts, but I have been thinking about your points all day. And, I have to just type a little at a time, and come back. This cold weather is playing heck with the arthritis in my hands. But I have been thinking about the things you said, and thinking about that boy I have been buying Red Angus and red Brangus cows, and the Black Hereford and bwf Simm bull for, to arise his reverse black baldies with. He is the one whose family has raised cotton and beans on since before I was born. This year his grandaddy had to quit, and his daddy and uncles wanted nothing to do with row crops. Neither does he...he works a full time job. So, he sold the cotton pickers, combines, big plows, planters, all but one of the 18 wheelers they had to pull the dump trailers for beans and the low-boys ( except one) to haul the equipment on. He took that money and built perimeter fences around the place, and is using it to buy the cows with. Sold all the big 8 wheel articulating tractors and kept two 80-100 hp for doing hay.</p><p>I then spent time online, pricing out used cornpickers, and buying back the plows and planters, etc, and priced out a silo for the corn. Then figured the cost for setting up a feed lot with troughs and water. And, he would need a truck or pull behind feeding apparatus. Figured he would lose about 25 acres of pasture for the weaning and feed lots, and about 75 acres of pasture and/or hayfield. He would have to reduce the number of the 250 brood cows he was planning on having, by maybe 100? Feeding these calves...what... 90-120 days? 3 or 4 months longer than selling them at weaning? Even if they brought 30 cents, or even 50 cents a pound more as Added Value Calves, I don't see how he'd ever make up the difference in what doing this would cost him in my lifetime. And that was amortizing the infrastructure over 15 years.</p><p></p><p>Then again, for what it would cost him in losing the pasture and hay acreage, the cost of buying back the equipment to raise corn, etc, he could buy a <em>whole</em> lot of bulk feed. But, unless everyone around started doing that too, so that it would bring the big pot load buyers to the sales, would it make him anymore money? Or would he make any money, doing this and shipping them further west where these buyers are?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1835115, member: 40587"] I know this is another long posts, but I have been thinking about your points all day. And, I have to just type a little at a time, and come back. This cold weather is playing heck with the arthritis in my hands. But I have been thinking about the things you said, and thinking about that boy I have been buying Red Angus and red Brangus cows, and the Black Hereford and bwf Simm bull for, to arise his reverse black baldies with. He is the one whose family has raised cotton and beans on since before I was born. This year his grandaddy had to quit, and his daddy and uncles wanted nothing to do with row crops. Neither does he...he works a full time job. So, he sold the cotton pickers, combines, big plows, planters, all but one of the 18 wheelers they had to pull the dump trailers for beans and the low-boys ( except one) to haul the equipment on. He took that money and built perimeter fences around the place, and is using it to buy the cows with. Sold all the big 8 wheel articulating tractors and kept two 80-100 hp for doing hay. I then spent time online, pricing out used cornpickers, and buying back the plows and planters, etc, and priced out a silo for the corn. Then figured the cost for setting up a feed lot with troughs and water. And, he would need a truck or pull behind feeding apparatus. Figured he would lose about 25 acres of pasture for the weaning and feed lots, and about 75 acres of pasture and/or hayfield. He would have to reduce the number of the 250 brood cows he was planning on having, by maybe 100? Feeding these calves...what... 90-120 days? 3 or 4 months longer than selling them at weaning? Even if they brought 30 cents, or even 50 cents a pound more as Added Value Calves, I don't see how he'd ever make up the difference in what doing this would cost him in my lifetime. And that was amortizing the infrastructure over 15 years. Then again, for what it would cost him in losing the pasture and hay acreage, the cost of buying back the equipment to raise corn, etc, he could buy a [I]whole[/I] lot of bulk feed. But, unless everyone around started doing that too, so that it would bring the big pot load buyers to the sales, would it make him anymore money? Or would he make any money, doing this and shipping them further west where these buyers are? [/QUOTE]
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