If you are going to sell the cows then you need to put the pencil to the cost of livestock/cattle of any kind on rented ground. The problem in the livestock segment right now is high feed/rent costs. There is not a profit to be made in cattle if you include the market cost of hay and corn. If the feed cost come down there maybe a window of profitability coming.
On rented pasture and little hay. I would buy light feeder calves 350-450 LBS and creep feed them on the pasture an sell them in the fall when feeder cattle climb after harvest.
This will take some capitol because you are going to be able to run more head than you currently are but you are having to buy every pound of them.
You are already out of the game for this year. In the future if you do build up another cow herd you need to have more feed reserves. I bale just about anything I can get that can be made into feed. It maybe low quality hay that I may have to tub grind and blend but if the price per pound of dry matter and protein is below a certain price I do it.
I run about 100 pairs. I usually have a 300 bale cushion in my hay inventory. I can just about make it a year without any "new" hay. Grind the hay I have and blend it with corn silage or wet gluten feed. Then if hay is short in the fall add ground corn stalks to the ration. You can make a cheap feed using other things besides boughten hay.
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