I would walk away from that deal. That's one one of the reasons I left the farm and went to work for the government. My late dad was milking about 40 cows in the early 1950's. My brother joined the Air Force in 1951 3 days after we graduated. After he paid the hired help he wasn't clearing much profit. After I was drafted he sold out and went to work for a chemical company. My nephew has the home they bought after selling the farm. That big rancher only cost $11000.00 back then. My dad had an Ag degree and also sold real estate. He put in 12 to 14 hours a day on the dairy farm. Your work is never finished. This was a 7 day a week job. Those cows need to be milked at least twice a day. The big milking herds have 1200 to 1500 cows milked 3 times daily. One of the men that post on here is a herdsman in WI. They have 3 shifts and each shift has to feed, clean and milk all those cows in 8 hours. That doesn't include keeping those cows bred and records kept. We weighed all the milk when on the farm and if a cow wasn't producing we got rid of her. Hal
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