Posted by robert major on March 10, 2015 at 14:18:03 from (216.81.18.201):
In Reply to: thoughts on this posted by blue924.9 on March 10, 2015 at 12:55:29:
Hi I would like to see more farms kept alive and running . I have a bad feeling you have a romantic dream of farming this land and being successful and making a few bucks doing it.
In reality with modern realistic costs and do goods that have no clue poking there nose into animal welfare and such things. I think you could have one heck of a nightmare instead of that sweet dream idea.
I run commercial hogs here in 6 biotech barns. there is around 1200 a time here at $16 a pig for custom raising them and filling 3 times a year on average and thats tough going to make a living when the bills and equipment's paid for. my weekly wage from it is $300 and i run a machinery repair shop in my spare time for extra income, at $45 an hour.
some weeks the hogs aren't worth the bother when the shops busy.
I think round here guys say something like an acre or more a cow for land base is needed to run them properly for a year. A friend of mine has 60 cow calf pairs, and still works a full time job most of the year when not busy at home calving or making hay ,straw bales or bringing bales home. He rents grain land to his next door neighbor to help pay the mortgage to. Does that give you any clues to your 3 acre farm and what you will get out for what you put in for time and money?. This adventure has to be practical and to be honest I don't think this is for the land you have and what you will get out in the end our lawn on the farms probably bigger than 3 acres. Think about this real hard, i hear the govenment farm advice kinda guys are full of bright ideas that guys try. but they have no clue. they are mostly university book farmers, educating city guys to failure.
farmings a hard lesson learned from good and bad experience. farming in my family goes way back . I'm still learning at 41. Regards Robert
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