Livestock pay, equipment costs, that is not to say that you don't need equipment to keep livestock but the point is to make money your investment should be roughly 70/30 in favor of livestock. The pastures that need grazing now could be stocked with calves for fall sale or cull cows bought in thin condition and grazed up a grade or two, I have never lost money grazing sale barn cows but this year it reallty paid off because the whole market improved. What is your business plan, hay to sell, cow/calf or other livestock or a combination of both? Selling hay is probably the lowest real margin farming enterprise there is for the majority of people who try it, first off, hay is a crop that removes from your soil 100% of the nutrients required to grow it and therefore you are selling the fertility of your soil in every bale, that fertility has to be replaced which means expensive commercial fertilizer has to be bought evry year or multi times per year. Grazing livestock return roughly 80% of the consumed nutrients back to the soil. Unless you are in an area with a commodity hay market, such as dairies or feedlots it is hard to come out because those operators expect high feed value and pay for the feed value unlike the average horse or goat owner who basically wants the best hay in the world for nothing, plus you load it for them. Even if you are only making hay for your own use you should try to make as little as possible, every mouth full of grass harvested by an animal makes you money two ways, it saves on harvest and grows meat or milk. Cattle and grass equal profit in any market.
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