Re: Re: Raising a Beef...?

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:

• Re: Re: Re: Raising a Beef...? T_Bone 22:59:17 11/12/02 (1)
  • Re: Re: Re: Re: Raising a Beef...? paul 08:05:08 11/13/02 (0)

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