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<blockquote data-quote="dave_shelby" data-source="post: 1163342" data-attributes="member: 22579"><p>I have a little bit of experience with dairy as we had family friend who owned a dairy. The son took over, incidentally, and went organic and now take vacations to the Bahamas etc. a long way from the poverty of youth milking 40 head.</p><p></p><p>My general plan is to hire help, while I work from home. So cash flow for the first years shouldn't be an issue. Of course now price of cows is high, not a great time to start.</p><p></p><p>I have finally got around to crunching numbers from grazing farms in MD. Some are doing quite well and some are not managed quite well and middling along. Some reasons are obvious and some aren't, which concerns me. I don't feel comfortable jumping in when you can't predict ROI. But the positive note was that folks have been more profitable with grazing dairy farms coupled with organic prices in a seasonal dairy. And if you can do it in MD with higher land, tax and labor prices it should be better in MO for example. Right?</p><p></p><p>Thanks for the input on WI farms, their websites claim grass milk is the way to go. </p><p></p><p>Btw, all this talk of grass fed milk inspired my wife to it and she really likes the taste. I know here are a lot of variables, but now the mrs is buying it. Lol.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dave_shelby, post: 1163342, member: 22579"] I have a little bit of experience with dairy as we had family friend who owned a dairy. The son took over, incidentally, and went organic and now take vacations to the Bahamas etc. a long way from the poverty of youth milking 40 head. My general plan is to hire help, while I work from home. So cash flow for the first years shouldn't be an issue. Of course now price of cows is high, not a great time to start. I have finally got around to crunching numbers from grazing farms in MD. Some are doing quite well and some are not managed quite well and middling along. Some reasons are obvious and some aren't, which concerns me. I don't feel comfortable jumping in when you can't predict ROI. But the positive note was that folks have been more profitable with grazing dairy farms coupled with organic prices in a seasonal dairy. And if you can do it in MD with higher land, tax and labor prices it should be better in MO for example. Right? Thanks for the input on WI farms, their websites claim grass milk is the way to go. Btw, all this talk of grass fed milk inspired my wife to it and she really likes the taste. I know here are a lot of variables, but now the mrs is buying it. Lol. [/QUOTE]
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