Posted by 495man on March 25, 2021 at 14:06:28 from (184.171.195.36):
In Reply to: Coming to a Cross Road posted by Bruce from Can. on March 24, 2021 at 07:03:08:
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Sounds like you have a 20 year payback calculated.
Does you son have the same enthusiasm for dairy as you do? Sounds like he'd be almost your age now by the time it's paid for. I'd say if your intent is to keep things going for him, he has to be 100% committed to it.
Been a few small dairy farmers here that sold off the dairy herd and quota and kept everything else (land, barns, equipment) and switched farming to something else. Not sure if there were succession issues or same thing you are running into with regs.
I'd be calculating what interest you'd get on investing the money the quota and cattle bring as a comparison, minusing off the 1.5 million you'd have to spend and not increasing your farm income at the same time.
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