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<blockquote data-quote="skyline" data-source="post: 493687" data-attributes="member: 5305"><p>On a small scale basis, I'm not sure how you make a stocker operation profitable, unless you hit a rising market just right. You gain a pound or two a day, say $30 to $60 per month in gain per calf. But as they gain, the price per pound drops. If you are in a falling market, the price really drops.</p><p></p><p>If you're doing this in the winter, you'll have hay and protein supplement costs. You can overseed with ryegrass or some other cool season grass or grain, but it's going to take at least a few months from germination to grazing (with no grazing during that period). </p><p></p><p>Ideally, you would buy calves as your grass greens up in the spring and sell as the grass begins to lose protein value in the fall, which should give you the least expensive grazing. But this seems to be buying high and selling low from what I have seen of the market cycle.</p><p></p><p>Unless you're doing this on a very large scale (reducing your overhead cost per calf), I haven't figured out how you do it profitably. But I'm probably missing something... If someone has an idea of how to do stockers profitably on a small scale, please share as I would like to figure this out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="skyline, post: 493687, member: 5305"] On a small scale basis, I'm not sure how you make a stocker operation profitable, unless you hit a rising market just right. You gain a pound or two a day, say $30 to $60 per month in gain per calf. But as they gain, the price per pound drops. If you are in a falling market, the price really drops. If you're doing this in the winter, you'll have hay and protein supplement costs. You can overseed with ryegrass or some other cool season grass or grain, but it's going to take at least a few months from germination to grazing (with no grazing during that period). Ideally, you would buy calves as your grass greens up in the spring and sell as the grass begins to lose protein value in the fall, which should give you the least expensive grazing. But this seems to be buying high and selling low from what I have seen of the market cycle. Unless you're doing this on a very large scale (reducing your overhead cost per calf), I haven't figured out how you do it profitably. But I'm probably missing something... If someone has an idea of how to do stockers profitably on a small scale, please share as I would like to figure this out. [/QUOTE]
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