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Well, I may start a thread. It is for our own beef and cost isn’t the main thing, availability is. I think beef is going to be expensive and scarce in time.


2 bushels of beans I picked this morning (measured 16 gallons when I washed em) This is half of one row. We have 1 row to go if it’ll stop raining long enough to pick em. We had a lot of rust and some cotton fungus in these plants from this morning, over 35 straight days of rain with only 2 days in there where it wasn’t measurable. 4” since Monday and forecast is more all next week.

I need to get that other row before they’re ruined.



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Rain? What's that? It sounds familiar...
 
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One thing that you can do is get a few bottle calves. Farmers are usually trying to get rid of them in the cheap. They don't have time to deal with bottle feeding and the calves will be used to you as they grow. Getting a couple bull (that will need to be banded later)or steer calves and a couple hefer calves will get you going. It will be 18 months or so for butchering the steers and be breeding time for the hefers. Then you can bring in a couple more bottle calves.
Getting cows from the market is hit or miss. Some farmers are getting rid of their problems and you may be getting them.
 
One thing that you can do is get a few bottle calves. Farmers are usually trying to get rid of them in the cheap. They don't have time to deal with bottle feeding and the calves will be used to you as they grow. Getting a couple bull (that will need to be banded later)or steer calves and a couple hefer calves will get you going. It will be 18 months or so for butchering the steers and be breeding time for the hefers. Then you can bring in a couple more bottle calves.
Getting cows from the market is hit or miss. Some farmers are getting rid of their problems and you may be getting them.
This, 100%. Cows and bulls from the salebarn can be a home run or a dud. I have had both. If I’m buying a cow from the sale barn I would try to go for a bred cow. No bulls needed first go around.
 
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Don Jr.’s golf bag tells the tale


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This showed up in my YouTube feed.



You know the First rule of Club & Knife Fighting is to not talk about Club & Knife fighting….wait is it don’t talk about Club Fighting or No knives in the Fight Club? :cool:
 
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they were testing a crash, that plane was on remote control. It's on wiki, I don't have link. They wanted to test how it would break up.


In a crash, how would a jetliner do with the nose wheel up?
 
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Plant pine trees and call it a tree farm.

Farm Bureau lists tree farms as a form of agriculture. In Louisiana, at this time, Tree Farming is the largest agriculture segment. Ahead of corn, beans, cotton and livestock (even Chickens but that is another story)
Yes what @DarnYankeeUSMC just said this should be a new thread on its own. Don’t want to get too wordy here but in short I can’t imagine making any money on just 3-4 cows.

Now lets say you have 100 rural acres but no farming, cattle ranching, horses, or any other type of agriculture production in place currently and the county tax accessor is wanting to tax the 100 acres as non agriculture resulting in a huge property tax bill then getting a small herd could make sense to keep the land as ag. exempt and property taxes low.

Or you and a few friends/family members want to each keep a calf to fill up the freezer but again only running 3-4 I still think it would be cheaper to go buy a calf from a rancher direct and have it butchered and be done with it. A lot of variables involved. Again this topic could use its own thread as there some knowledgeable ranchers/cattlemen on SH that could provide good numbers on profit margins etc.

Economies of scale are stacked against you with only 3-4 head so it would be a hobby in my opinion. That’s not bad just depending on what your trying to accomplish.
 
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I think hay farming is probably the best answer as well. Just as long as you can beat the rain. That said, hay conditioners have gone a long way to making really good hay. Now square bales really sell well, but they are a double pain for sure. First is handling them. In the 70's New Holland had a machine that would pick up and stack square bales. Never saw one so I don't know how well they worked. All's I know is that in high school, our spring and summer and fall was dedicated to hay season and corn picking season (Farmer Ward did not believe in no stupid mechanization.). We spent many an hour throwing those bales up on a truck. And no matter how many we stacked, it was never enough. This was before the days of round bales. Boy am I getting old.

On a more serious note, The second issue with square bales is they have to be thoroughly cure. Horses colic quick on moldy hay and the vet bills add up even quicker. (if one is lucky enough to get one out to the farm soon enough). Our vet taught me how to treat colic, sold us the Banamine, and taught me how to do the rest of the treatments. Saved Brenda and thousands and some good horses as well.
Agree with all the points. The only other way is to accumulate a good cow herd on a large place that is way understocked AND have a good handling facility that you can run yourself.

My wife's side of the family has several irrigated sections. But the cost of maintaining the pumps and the irrigation equipment is not predictable. But they do cash flow pretty impressively!

I made more money off hay than anything. When I retire my plan is to buy bottomland and do hay, storing enough to sell into the next drought and find a kid to help me run contract haying for others.
 
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you get a spanking for stealing a car in Mexico? I'm surprised you just don't get shot..........
Pulled over a Mexican guy my first year in law enforcement. He was drunk so I had him step out and come to the back of his car. He looked terrified and starting sobbing, I mean really ugly crying. Finished up the stop, and took him to jail.
The translator told me he thought I was taking him to the back of his car to execute him.
Apparently Mexican cops don't play around.
 
Pulled over a Mexican guy my first year in law enforcement. He was drunk so I had him step out and come to the back of his car. He looked terrified and starting sobbing, I mean really ugly crying. Finished up the stop, and took him to jail.
The translator told me he thought I was taking him to the back of his car to execute him.
Apparently Mexican cops don't play around.

I would ask the unlicensed Brazilians as they complained about their car being towed...

"If I was in Brazil and I was driving with no license, what would the police do?"

And they would answer "Beat you up!"

Guessing the new system being created will get us there soon.

Cops are proving their loyal to the system and realizing the system does not dispense justice they will become the punisher but more likely the receiver of fine payments roadside.