Boone & Crockett - 8/26/2025 12:44
GS2 - 8/26/2025 10:47
No, we have too many who refuse to change. Refuse to diversify.
Not that long ago, the story was the same but your grandfather sent the corn through cows and pigs and made a nice profit.
Now when you bring up diversifying into livestock everyone has an excuse, but they will gladly keep complaining about low grain prices while livestock is profitable.
Diversify so while one is down the other is up. Put cropland into pasture, chop the corn for silage, and feed a mostly lovable creature that will occasionally escape and look at through your house window.
well son, my grandpas era was the 50’s 60’s and 70’s, and there wasn’t squat for “nice profits” in livestock. Few nickels and dimes, here and there, that was about it. The most I ever got for my fair show cattle was .36, and that was a premium price, early, mid seventies.I bought 45 really nice gilts, bred them to a good boar, sold them for a $2,000 loss. Sophomore in high school. Circa 1976 Nice livestock profits my ass.
I started farming in that time 1974 to be exact raised some very short crops some yrs. Never sold any corn until 2010. Milo oats and alfalfa were my other crops it all got fed so don’t say livestock didn’t make a profit.
Does anybody else agree?
