Posted 8/25/2010 22:21 (#1332443 - in reply to #1332372) Subject: Re: Land cost vs Usage
My calf program started on a no loan shoe string. Since those first 25 head all profits are put back into buying more calves each time so there has never been a loan on the calves. Had I known back when I started buying ground 25 years ago what I know now, pasture and cattle would have been my first buys. Crops in the dry lands have never paid off as good as the calves per acre. Cattle kept a lot of guys going when the crops were barely holding their own.