Kingdom of Callaway - Fulton, Mo 65251 | pdjohn1 - 10/25/2024 06:08
I think the price is about demand and demand is down for cows and breed heifers as no one wants to work and be tied down 7 days a week all year. I can easily rent out farm ground, but trying to find some help with cows and even offer chance to take over operations down the road little to know interest.
I agree. If it can be row cropped around here, it already is. If it can be easily divided up and sold for house lots, that is going on. Local government just started a sewer district, so that will accelerate things.....
Once the fences get past rigging and patching, then they just bale hay off it because no one wants to pay for new fence. Hay gets cheap, guys don't make any money selling round bales, a new 100hp tractor costs more than a house did recently, wife wants to travel, and then they quit and let the cedars and broomsedge take over.
It feels like the doom and gloom we have heard for years of only senior citizen farmers has hit here locally. Very few folks are playing the long game and buying heifers.
Right or wrong, this past year I sold 90% of my cows and bought back bred heifers. The spread between them is small enough to make it finally work here. I've calved 200 and pulled one calf so far. Lots of genetic improvements since the '70's.
Cattle would be higher if there was interest in herd expansion like we had the last go around.
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