Tractor Talk Discussion Board |
Re: Re: Raising a Beef...?
[ View Follow Ups ] [ Post Followup ] [ Return to Forum ]
Posted by T_Bone on November 12, 2002 at 22:48:59 from (65.59.178.70):
In Reply to: Re: Raising a Beef...? posted by paul on November 12, 2002 at 12:16:14:
Geezs, Paul what a well thought out post. Thanks and I learned a thing or two. I thought some of my welding advice was getting to long winded so I was trying to condense it as much as possible. I see now that a "green horn" has more benefit with well presented info. I can not sugar coat it but beef at the store here flat sucks! I eat about 200lbs of beef by myself a year. So it's time to raise my own even tho it may cost me $3/lb cut and wrapped. What I'm trying to do is raise a beef in 5months to butcher weight. Thats Nov to April. Cost of water prohibits pasture, $3/1000gal but looks close to break even at the grain prices posted here if I can get grain for those prices in Arizona. I need to check. Wells are 500ft deep at $20ft and your not allowed to commericaly irrigate from a well. They cannel expensive Colorado River water for that! Corn, wheat, cotton, some vegetable crops, citrus, alfalfa, some vineyards and sorgum(mace?) is grown commerically. No grain silo's in sight and I'm in prime farming country for AZ. I see no storage at all unless they store if different here? Our soil has 13% clay content at about 8.5ph with pee sized decomposed granite the majority content. Takes about a ton of soil sulfur per acre to get the PH down. So I figured I could raise corn, wheat and maybe another grain. This is a good time to grow certian crops here. 120F summers. I'm leaving in April each year for 6 months and thats why the short raising time. So from what all that has been said, I take it I should be looking for a 500# plus animal? I can probabbly get two past the wife if there the samesex. lol (read my rabbit reply) Any more suggestions? In the mean time I'll look into current local grain prices. T_Bone
Follow Ups:
Home
| Forums
Today's Featured Article -
Listening to Your Tractor - by Curtis Von Fange. Years ago there was a TV show about a talking car. Unless you are from another planet, physically or otherwise, I don’t think our internal combustion buddies will talk and tell us their problems. But, on the other hand, there is a secret language that our mechanical companions readily do speak. It is an interesting form of communication that involves all the senses of the listener. In this series we are going to investigate and learn the basic rudimentary skills of understanding this lingo.
... [Read Article]
Latest Ad:
2022 John Deere 5045E, 4wd, front end loader and 3rd function with grapple. 120 hrs, 55k new, must sell
[More Ads]
Copyright © 1997-2024 Yesterday's Tractor Co. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction of any part of this website, including design and content, without written permission is strictly prohibited. Trade Marks and Trade Names contained and used in this Website are those of others, and are used in this Website in a descriptive sense to refer to the products of others. Use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy TRADEMARK DISCLAIMER: Tradenames and Trademarks referred to within Yesterday's Tractor Co. products and within the Yesterday's Tractor Co. websites are the property of their respective trademark holders. None of these trademark holders are affiliated with Yesterday's Tractor Co., our products, or our website nor are we sponsored by them. John Deere and its logos are the registered trademarks of the John Deere Corporation. Agco, Agco Allis, White, Massey Ferguson and their logos are the registered trademarks of AGCO Corporation. Case, Case-IH, Farmall, International Harvester, New Holland and their logos are registered trademarks of CNH Global N.V. Yesterday's Tractors - Antique Tractor HeadquartersWebsite Accessibility Policy |
|