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NC | Ahhhhh a stacked deck project
Never understood the value of them. It should be heres $200000 now go realistically make it earn some income for you. With just what you realistically have available to you.
Here you go- you just happen to live next to a food processor and you get all the vegetable wastes you can handle for free. You pick them up daily and feed them(no storage no waste). Now you can profitably feed any cattle you buy. Need a lot,recieving/working area, bunks, tractor,commodity storage,feed mixer and manure spreader. Luckily you have a retired neighbor(done making his fortune) with all that for rent cheap.
Or a neighbor has made his fortune and is retiring before his chicken/hog houses are wore out(and before the area lost its contract base) and he rents them to you.
My suggestion is to take the project and turn it into what you actually could do with $200,000. You will come out of school with a real good idea of what you are looking at-- instead of some pipe dream.
Here was our senerio. We had a truck and trailer paid for from custom hauling.We had 40 acres given by a grandfather. We took out loans with the land as collateral. We rented wore out pastures with no catch pens and wore out fencing(nobody else wanted them). We bought panels/feeders to move around to pastures, trained dogs to help manage the calves(no horse/no four wheeler). We put up hotwires on the inside of the fences and covered the pastures with CM. We bought supplement by the bag(loaded and put out by hand). We bought two loads of calves. And worked our ### off.
Oh we both had full time jobs too.
I don't think you could even do that anymore with just $200,000.
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