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| $600 to carry a cow is pedaling backwards real fast. Agree with you on the university folks, they don't function in the real world and a lot of things look good on paper that don't look so great in reality. I think there are two different worlds going on here. Guys running 10 cows and guys running 500 cows, the guy with 10 cows is playing and never will cover his costs because he doesn't have economy of scale, the guy with 500 cows is scraping a living out of it and is making real world decisions. Start figuring in cow depreciation and all the other extraneous costs (trailers, tractors, trucks, watering equipment, corrals, chutes, scales, etc.) associated with running cows, and a majority of guys work for free. | |
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cost to keep a cow
