I am curious how this is going for you guys. I am a filmmaker committed to helping small farmers and ranchers win this crazy food battle we have with big AG. I hope you guys are crushing it!
@jksdotcom7612
4 ай бұрын
Hello how are you
@hadnick1
2 ай бұрын
This isn’t exactly right. On that two years from cow getting pregnant to steer going to the butcher, you would have another steer growing to be butchered the following year or heifer to keep to add to your breeding herd or sell. Also if you switch your management to holistic livestock management, you should be able to go from a conventional model to a holistic model and double the size of your herd for a few years, assuming you do it correctly. I’ve doubled the size of my herd for the last five years and only feed hay in winter when there’s too much snow on the ground. I live in the high desert Nevada where we have a decent amount of snow on the ground for about 30-40daus out of the year and only 9inches annual precipitation. The grass should be getting thicker and taller every year when you do holistic livestock management right. Also if you raise the right kind of cows(700-1000lbs) you shouldn’t need to finish on grain and the cows should be able to thrive on grass. Also those 750-850 steers are a lot easier to sell to a customer than a 1200-1400lb steers because it’s less of an investment for the customer. Also you can’t finish those bigger steers on grass AND GET THEM FAT. It won’t happen and that cost of grain/fuel eats up too much profit. The five steers I just took to the butcher at 18months cost me $280 to have one butchered, plus another $53 in hay/fuel for two winters plus $12 in fuel to drive them to the butcher … I sold the five of them for $1,600 each as whole steers direct to customers and they ended up with between 295lbs-310lbs of beef or $5.42 per lb to $5.16 per lb … That came out to $1,255 profit per steer…
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