ogden
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Post by ogden on Jul 8, 2012 16:45:07 GMT -5
Corn prices ARE high. You sell Amway. How would I expect you to know that. Corn farmers cry about having no rain. Every minute of every day. What's your point? I sell amway so I dont know what corn prices are doing. What do you think I feed my deer?
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Post by cousinit on Jul 8, 2012 19:58:40 GMT -5
Gawd help me, but feeding your deer and feeding a 185 cow dairy herd are 2 entirely different cost models.
Our corn/soybean/cottenseed/brewers grains/cottonseed bill for 2011 was a quarter of a million dollars.
What was yours?
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ogden
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Post by ogden on Jul 8, 2012 20:33:05 GMT -5
around 375,000. It was lower last year because we cut back on the herd. Added some this year so it probably will be up some.
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Post by cousinit on Jul 8, 2012 21:03:26 GMT -5
You have a niche market, you can charge whatever you want to those spoiled brat big game hunters.
We take what the plant decides to send us.
I have no idea what your income/expense statement looks like, but I believe you can pass your costs along.
Don't say we shouldn't have gone into dairying.
I already know that. But in a few years we will be done with it. And you won't hear me say a word about the price of corn anymore.
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ogden
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Post by ogden on Jul 9, 2012 10:59:58 GMT -5
"Spoiled brat big game hunters"
Really? They work for there money too.
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2+2, MN
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Post by 2+2, MN on Jul 24, 2012 11:52:08 GMT -5
sigh,
anyways. Guy here milks a ton of Swiss in compost barns, His parlor waste runs to septic tanks then down a small hill he has small pasture for heifer with a bunch of posts with sprinklers on them. he turn the pump on every few weeks and the waste water is "spread" on the grass. I asked about winter (it gets damn cold here) and he said works fine, water runs back down hill when he shuts them off. something to ponder on.
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