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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