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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm2" data-source="post: 154967" data-attributes="member: 2095"><p>On the other hand (just to play Devil's Advocate) if all you can afford is 4-7 cows and you have to maintain 100 acres of fence, repair/pay for a tractor, bushog, hay equipment, working pens, barn, etc; fertilizer; and pay property taxes you are PROBABLY going to lose money on that handful of cows especially IF you are keeping every heifer calf. And that little herd is going to be that much bigger a burden in a few years (the latest U. prediction is 2009) when the cattle cycle goes into a down dip. IF you have the off farm income that you can lose $1000-5000 a year every year while you start small and add females as nature and the market allows go THAT route; but if you don't, running cows could be more of a struggle than it is worth. On the other hand, somebody who (evil word here) "BORROWED" $35,000 to buy a decent set of 50 cows would "probably" make money in this high end of the cattle cycle (not holding heifers back) and knowing that a downturn in cattle prices is a few years down the road have that debt payed down from his cattle income and NOT have to have his real world job pay for his cattle hobby indefinitely. Sometimes profit can be found IN debt....and sometimes not, but I would not automatically assume that avoiding debt is the best and only answer without looking at the numbers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm2, post: 154967, member: 2095"] On the other hand (just to play Devil's Advocate) if all you can afford is 4-7 cows and you have to maintain 100 acres of fence, repair/pay for a tractor, bushog, hay equipment, working pens, barn, etc; fertilizer; and pay property taxes you are PROBABLY going to lose money on that handful of cows especially IF you are keeping every heifer calf. And that little herd is going to be that much bigger a burden in a few years (the latest U. prediction is 2009) when the cattle cycle goes into a down dip. IF you have the off farm income that you can lose $1000-5000 a year every year while you start small and add females as nature and the market allows go THAT route; but if you don't, running cows could be more of a struggle than it is worth. On the other hand, somebody who (evil word here) "BORROWED" $35,000 to buy a decent set of 50 cows would "probably" make money in this high end of the cattle cycle (not holding heifers back) and knowing that a downturn in cattle prices is a few years down the road have that debt payed down from his cattle income and NOT have to have his real world job pay for his cattle hobby indefinitely. Sometimes profit can be found IN debt....and sometimes not, but I would not automatically assume that avoiding debt is the best and only answer without looking at the numbers. [/QUOTE]
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