Originally Posted by cartervj
Originally Posted by Backwards cowboy
No one is rebuilding their heard for less. That doesnt make sense. Even with cattle at an all time high its still not worth it. Buy a couple hundred acres and pay for it raising cattle! Youll see how much you're making off beef!


The guys I’ve talked with that are big are building their herd they don’t need the money right now and are building for the future

No matter what there is a future and they know going long is the only way forward. The smaller operators at the end are selling for record profits. Like I said earlier. The one guy said he finally paid off his herd. I still crack up at that cause business wise he ain’t wrong.

I’d say the same for row croppers. Small operations are probably 3-5000 acres now inputs cost you go gotta be big to make the numbers work. Otherwise you’re just cash flowing if you’re lucky.

I went thru the same thing in my business. The summer of 2010 I realized would jot retire as a pro photographer so I closed up and cut my loses. 23 years as a storefront studio done for. Found other work and just playing now for the most part. I work for my health insurance and that’s about it.

Covid F-ed up everything and that’s a fact


I disagree about the row croppers. Even the big ones can’t make money. 100,000 acre outfits are stopping. I just left the delta and discussed this with two guys that farm 25k acres each. This will be on of them’s last summer to farm big. He is changing his business model and shrinking down to 1k acres and building a farmers market.