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mercer county, il | I don’t think either of us were trying to be argumentative.
And I understand your position all too well. I’m a bit older than you, but when I got out af the army in 2006, I went out on my own. And I don’t owe on any machinery, or cows. Just real estate and operating loans for the crop side.
Every situation is different, I think my point, and old tigers alike was just a different point of view, don’t get tunnel vision and get so stuck on a concept you look past a way to make more.
And I agree high dollar hay equipment don’t make sense. Honestly for a cow calf or feeder operation it’s hard to make hay pencil. I hate to sound like garvo, or Jon, but silage just makes sense, instead of chasing hay around all summer.
But our operation is different, we don’t have much that lends itself to stockpile grazing, and I’m guessing once you push your stocking rates up as you grow, less stockpile grazing would be feasible.
I can’t speak for oldtiger, but I was just trying to say look at all alternatives. A flexible operation is a resilient operation, and different ways of doing things will pencil out differently some years, and sometimes by a wide margin. | |
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Expansion? Grass or building?
