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Little River, TX | Really most any of the Gulf States, or next tier up. Say Arkansas or Oklahoma.
Sell your traditional high land cost dairy for big bucks. Buy a bunch of pasture land and put in a good fence system and water system. Get ready for intensive management grazing. Put in a New Zealand, no walls just a milk tank on the north side. Build it a third larger than you would for a confinement herd for less cost.
Stop putting up silage and hay, NO more grain purchases, the cows harvest their own meal.
Result is a feed cost of $1 to $2 feed cost per 100 lbs of milk.
Cull rate will be less than 10%. If you can not make money that way, you are in the wrong profession.
Agreed will not be bragging on 30,000 lb rolling herd average, but you will be putting money in the bank. Profit is Gross less Cost. If the cost is a four time lower you can give up 25% gross.
Want to go big? Go to West Texas, any place that is hot and has irrigation, put in three parlors, graze under the pivots and keep the cows cool, move the milk crew from parlor to parlor, milk 18 hours a day. Milk 500 cows per parlor.
That is the theory, It has worked for some. You may not be a forage producer first, and may not do all that great. There are a few who went from the edge of bankruptcy to looking for investment opportunities.
That or listen to how someone else is still profitable. Think about your options. Think positive.
No offence ment.
Remember not every kid who plays ball in the school yard ends up playing big time pro ball. Not every kid with a guitar makes it to Nashville or Vegas. Consider this, your location, climate, soil, and management skills may not fit a dairy. Why do you think I raise hay?
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Wonder how much of the milk price will reach the dairy?
