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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] SE PA going to identifiable non-cashsmartcardsfortransporta...
  • Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:18:00 -0800 (PST)

I have a hard time imagining calfs being sold for 10 bucks each. You can't
buy two packs of smokes for ten bucks. Maybe I will raise one
cow.........bobford

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--- On Mon, 11/17/08, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:

> From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] SE PA going to identifiable
> non-cashsmartcardsfortransporta...
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Monday, November 17, 2008, 12:07 PM
> > >Once they are butchered, I can
> > net over $1000/bull in beef sales. That's the
> difference between regular
> > economics and old-style 'pastoral
> economics'...money I didn't spend is not a
> > loss to me.
> >
>
> And it's the difference between the agribusiness model
> and the pastoral or
> homestead model.
>
> Let me round the numbers for convenience's sake and say
> Lynn has $90 worth of
> hay along with the $10 purchase price. That's $100 at
> risk. Let's suppose
> over X period of time she has ten of these bulls. If one
> sickens and dies late
> in the operation (rare, since farm animals that are going
> to die generally
> die young, guess the never heard that James Taylor song).
> That's still $1000 at
> risk grossing $9000.
>
> So what if one is lost??
>
> But in the agribusiness where feed, labor, medicine,
> interest on the loans
> totals $950 and you are hoping to get $50 out of the deal,
> in a likewise unit of
> 10 bulls, the loss of one means you are $500 in the hole on
> the operation.
>
> The difference in the models is vast.
>
>
>
> James
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