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Another Tough Decision Made

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Maple Leaf Angus

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Today my cousin's son (30 or so) told us that the milk quota for his 40 head dairy herd hit his asking price. After growing up with it and then taking it over for 5 years, he's out of the dairy business. There are getting to be fewer of the 25-60 cow herds all the time.

It was just too tough to make ends meet with the payments and overhead eating up all of his milk cheque. And milking cows means you are there twice a day whether you are milking 30 or 300.

Now he is looking to buy about 40 or 50 beef cows. I told him that he's going to notice a big difference between selling milk and selling meat! And a big difference between feeding Holsteins and Angus, too.

He doesn't know what to buy. Any suggestions from Meadow Lake?
 
A hunting/fishing license is the best buy right now. Cattle might be too high. Just kidding. Running age bred cows are always in good supply this time of year and usually at a decent price.
 
He'd be one and the same guy. He came back from his tour last week and decided that he liked his home-stompin' ground's shade of green pretty much the best.

You know, like the line from the Eagles "Hotel California" - ". . . you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave . . ."

If the link you posted was your sister's place, it sure looked like a comfortable, smart-looking house. It seemed to have a lot of buildings (I'm like old Northern up there and less machinery is better, in my opinion) but they could probably be used for other purposes.

The idea of pulling up stakes at this point in our families life has quite a few repercussions, I have discovered. More than I could deal with. I could end up with more land and cows and less kids in the home!
 
Maple Leaf-I sold a group of black baldy heifers to Damon Farms at Lucan ,Ontario a few years back-they were in the exact same situation. If he wants I can do the same for him-aged cows are a crapshoot-a good chunk of grass just became available up here so I'll be able to breed some extra heifers-they'll be the right kind-bred right and garanteed.
 
I hear you MLA, you have to look out for family first. Yes that was my sisters place. her husband does like iron but the buildings could have been useful. Half the farm was native grass and the other half farmed but could be fenced and seeded. In fact i told him that many years ago and it probably would have been sold by now but then what do I know I'm just the kid brother in law. :wink:
 
His situation is kinda dicey because he wants to feed out a silo full of corn silage along with some dry hay to whatever he buys. I think Black Angus on that mix would roll out to grass in the spring!

Northern Rancher, I can give him your email if you like and you two take it from there.

Yeah, right, BMr. Just what would a lil bro-in-law know anyway? :-) Bin there myself. :(
 

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