What windfall? I sold down through 2023 and 2024 due to some health issues, now resolved. Certainly not a windfall. I sold some good young and middle age cows at the wrong time and wrong sale for $1200 or so. So I'm now building back by saving heifers. But every time you save a heifer calf you take her out of the market, so no income from that cow this year. The retained heifer doesn't have a calf until her second birthday and it's about another year before that calf is saleable. 3+ years of expenses before any income from a retained heifer calf. A lot of talk about how cattle prices will collapse, like "$7 corn". But corn production can go up and down in a heartbeat compared to domestic beef cattle. Yet demand is strong and growing for good US beef.
Edited by Jim 4/24/2025 17:50
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So what are you doing your with the Cattle Windfall.
