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Williamsport IN | Have no experience with no forage diet but know it can be done. Forage for feeders can be had almost everywhere, cornstalks, bean stubble, straw. I’ve been wet baled rye after corn and before soybeans with great success.
I tend to do what I know and try not to change too many things in one year, when you sell direct it’s best to be consistent.
Facility sounds great to me.
Got 20 cows and feed out 30-40, all direct to consumers. Feeders I buy are source from family so I know what they are. While it works good there is nothing like your calves, born, raised and fed. they do the best and it’s a great marketing tool. I wouldn’t be doing anything with cattle if I didn’t sell direct to consumers.
Marketing. I feed’em she sells’em.
My wife is great at keeping everything strait and it ain’t easy. Matching quarters and halves and juggling it between 3 different processors all the while making sure people are paying or will pay, she is amazing.
Facebook and word of mouth have been the extent of our marketing. This year we started selling at farmers market but I would just soon sell freezers, she sold a 1/4 to the guy selling flowers in the next booth.
Since covid it has been no problem selling, production is maxed out. I have a facility 1/2 mile up the road just like yours, I’d love to have it.
Edited by Ralph52 8/29/2023 20:50
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Freezer Beef Business Strategy
