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Fontanelle, IA | And crop insurance.
And CRP
And lack of price risk management tools to scale of small producers. Ie. Buying 50k # feeder cattle puts for 25-50 head lots is really expensive and overhedged. LRP used to be really hard to execute because of lack of approved providers, tight turn-arounds, and minimal subsidy
And workload
And capital required to stock up
And, in my mind, blkcow is correct on the weaning weights being realitively flat to slightly increasing as a whole per year. The difference now is the margin is “there” to open the energy physics door due to calf prices | |
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