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<blockquote data-quote="cmjust0" data-source="post: 486443" data-attributes="member: 2882"><p>Let's take another look at everything that's gotta be done...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It appears to me that you'd need to be on the farm at least daily -- seven days a week -- pretty much from fall weaning through the end of spring calving (assuming that's how it works at your place).. That's about half the year.. If you figured on being there 3.5 days of 7 for the "easy" half of the year, and figured on a flat 60 minutes a day, it comes to about 225 hours.. If you paid yourself $9/hr, it would run just a hair over $2,000 in total. </p><p></p><p>Incidentally, $2,000 is probably going to be about 50% of the profit on 40 head, if you're managing to clear $100/head/yr. </p><p></p><p></p><p>On a side note, if whatever deal you come up with seems out of whack to either of you, there's a pretty easy way to get real-world feedback -- advertise it like you're hiring it out. Put an ad in the paper and see what happens on the open labor market.. If you get nothing, you're too low.. If you get swamped, you're too high.. If you get calls from people you'd actually consider hiring, you're on track.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cmjust0, post: 486443, member: 2882"] Let's take another look at everything that's gotta be done... It appears to me that you'd need to be on the farm at least daily -- seven days a week -- pretty much from fall weaning through the end of spring calving (assuming that's how it works at your place).. That's about half the year.. If you figured on being there 3.5 days of 7 for the "easy" half of the year, and figured on a flat 60 minutes a day, it comes to about 225 hours.. If you paid yourself $9/hr, it would run just a hair over $2,000 in total. Incidentally, $2,000 is probably going to be about 50% of the profit on 40 head, if you're managing to clear $100/head/yr. On a side note, if whatever deal you come up with seems out of whack to either of you, there's a pretty easy way to get real-world feedback -- advertise it like you're hiring it out. Put an ad in the paper and see what happens on the open labor market.. If you get nothing, you're too low.. If you get swamped, you're too high.. If you get calls from people you'd actually consider hiring, you're on track. [/QUOTE]
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