Caustic Burno
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Quite a few I know are selling out.
Hay man and fishing partner sold out this week along with his neighbor.
Feed store manager said deer hunters are his largest customers now.
Don't wait so late that you've physically worn yourself out too much to enjoy it.With the current cattle prices and the uncertainty of costs to produce, if I was considering getting out in the near future, this would be the time.
Let the land rest and lease it out. Lock in your revenue and enjoy life.
You are not hurting at all on this pair at $925!!!Not a bad pair, she has a nice brangus steer on her.
Sometimes the best you can do is cash in when your chips are up. I think the only sad part is that on average more people I've known previously or met in more recent times don't have anyone interested or trustworthy enough to make it worth passing it on. I don't know why that is, I guess it's just the times.
Understandable, and based a lot on location too, I guess. Some places you can have a town job and still fool with ag and some places you'd play hell. Still you'd think with all of the "back to the land" homesteading types that there'd be more potential young cattle people.Most kids today (or younger adult kids even in their 20s-40s) have figured out there are easier ways to get thru life than keeping cattle and certainly easier/better financial prospects out there. By the time a farmer rancher is ready to get out, his/her kids have probably already gotten settled into their own lives and good paying jobs outside agriculture. If it ain't in their blood, ya can't force it.
From what I've observed, that "back to the land" thing doesn't often happen with young folks. It happens in their 50s and early 60s and only after they've made a living in the non-ag sectors..Still you'd think with all of the "back to the land" homesteading types that there'd be more potential young cattle people.
No we're not.You are not hurting at all on this pair at $925!!!
I see what you mean. Goodness, those programs need to be more prolific in many areas. I don't know how many could even stick to ag if they got into it anyway. My younger sister (huge age gap, but mama says she was the only planned one, you tell me) wanted to get back into ag a few years ago. She was early teens or so. Mom stood her the money, some friends helped with the little bit of labor, and I stood her the help and advice whenever I could make it around to do so. She got a bunch (but not too many) of chickens and a chicken tractor, a big passel of ducks with a movable setup, a movable rabbit setup and a primo horse pulled off a cow spread over in Georgia. Well, she really took to it for a month or three, then she wouldn't reliably feed and water her stuff unless pressed into it, if I was around I just did it for her, she didn't reliably collect eggs half the time, somebody else had to shoot stray dogs if they got into her stuff, somebody else had to move her chicken tractor half the time. The horse had been used to working more than being penned and had a bunch of energy so she was soon half buffaloed by him even though he was just pent up. I rode him and worked with him many times and he was just fine under a firm hand and if you actually let him do something more than walk. A couple of her "cowgirl" (barrel racers) friends got on him and came at him wrong and got pitched and suddenly nobody would get on him except for me when I was around but I couldn't take him so he got sold. She owns two animals now, a fat dog and a blue duck.From what I've observed, that "back to the land" thing doesn't often happen with young folks. It happens in their 50s and early 60s and only after they've made a living in the non-ag sectors..
Too often, Youth is wasted on the young and wisdom wasted on the elderly.
I'll always be thankful I got into FFA and the ag programs in school so many years ago. It helped me form a vision of what I wanted in life more than anything else. I did lots of different things in life, but I ALWAYS wanted cows.
I know or know of several people that are still in it with their dads and granddads, so there's some hope. I do think that by that 20 year mark the number of head required for it to be more than a hobby will be greater than it is now, for sure.I've read somewhere that the average age of a farmer/rancher in the USA is in the 70s, unless you have a younger family member to pass it on to that wants to do the work then the farm or ranch will likely die off with the owner. It's a very capital-intensive business with poor cash flow and it's not something many young people just starting out in life can afford to take on that much debt. I wonder about what things will look like in 20 years, will we be a beef importer rather than a beef exporter.
True. Some times it takes a couple of false starts!Just because one sells all the cows doesn't mean they're out.
You talking bout me ????Just because one sells all the cows doesn't mean they're out.