clicker - 3/24/2025 14:10
Kooiker - 3/24/2025 11:19
If you can profitably grow hay on $350 ground I would certainly think you could profitably graze cattle on it if managed properly, ie intensive rotational grazing.
It’s a whole lot less work and risk to grow corn/beans though. The tax payer shall get what the tax payer pays for.
Get rid of the corn/bean subsidies and start subsidizing cow/calf guys $100 per pair grazing grass and you’d see a lot of ground go back to grass.
maybe, at best you get a 2x spike in cow prices for a few years and billions of dollars in EQIP funds to put up fences and waterers and after a year of poor management because it actually involves work everyone would revert back to standing in line for their ECAP funds and renting more ground to farm with the family operations equipment that they trade labor for in exchange for using the equipment
Can you convert $350 rented ground to grass
