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Lease Prices

We are getting basically $1.16/pair/day for 150days. If we have extra grass, and they want to stay longer, and the calves are gone, we get 58 cents/day for up to 25 additional days.
 
pairs on summer grass is in that $22-27 range around here. i know of some that pay $20, and a few at $30. my lease grass costs $23 per pair/per month.
 
Most of my by the head grass runs 50 to 55 cents per pair per day. Hay stumpage between $5 and $10 per bale. It all varies some we get for next to free and some we pay dearly so it evens out.We normally feed cows from mid November to the end of may.We could graze later in the fall and a bit earlier in the spring but most of our ground is rented and deer hunting normally dictates in and out dates.
 
Here we rent by the acre mostly May 1 to Oct 31 low end is $30 up to $100 I don't know how you can make it at that upper end. We have lost over half of the pastures around here in last 15 years to farm land and Gov. programs that are paying $80 to $100 to leave them set. Pretty hard to compete with that.
 
most of are leased ground is leased by the acre and we are paying around 30 to 40 dollars a acre it takes roughly 3 acres for a pair
 
Rents are all over the place here. Absentee land owners getting $10.00 an acre for pasture to "those-in-the-know" getting $30.00 an acre. We figure 8 acres to a pair. Then there are those who have the absentee owners, they run 8 pairs to the acre :roll: You could shoot marbles at midnight in those pastures.
 
Crown range runs in the ball park of $2.50 per AUM (animal unit month). A cow calf pair is an animal unit, a yrlg is about .75 I think, and bulls about 1.25.
Private land prices can be all over the place. We rent a section and a half of private land that comes with about 6 secions of crown grazing for $5000 / yr. There is about 250 acres of pretty fair hay on it we can cut and the rest is pretty good pasture. I don't know if that's a good deal or not but it works for us.
 
Silver said:
Crown range runs in the ball park of $2.50 per AUM (animal unit month). A cow calf pair is an animal unit, a yrlg is about .75 I think, and bulls about 1.25.
Private land prices can be all over the place. We rent a section and a half of private land that comes with about 6 secions of crown grazing for $5000 / yr. There is about 250 acres of pretty fair hay on it we can cut and the rest is pretty good pasture. I don't know if that's a good deal or not but it works for us.
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You folks in BC that claim the Government doesn't like ranchers sure get a cosy deal on crown pasture rental :wink: :D I'm paying in the region of 70-80 cents/day/pair on average with the yearlings at 2/3rds of that. I tend to rent by offering a price for the pasture then use my grass management to get the price down to a reasonable rate per head/per day. That policy didn't work so great last year in a drought :roll:
 
Grassfarmer said:
Silver said:
Crown range runs in the ball park of $2.50 per AUM (animal unit month). A cow calf pair is an animal unit, a yrlg is about .75 I think, and bulls about 1.25.
Private land prices can be all over the place. We rent a section and a half of private land that comes with about 6 secions of crown grazing for $5000 / yr. There is about 250 acres of pretty fair hay on it we can cut and the rest is pretty good pasture. I don't know if that's a good deal or not but it works for us.
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You folks in BC that claim the Government doesn't like ranchers sure get a cosy deal on crown pasture rental :wink: :D I'm paying in the region of 70-80 cents/day/pair on average with the yearlings at 2/3rds of that. I tend to rent by offering a price for the pasture then use my grass management to get the price down to a reasonable rate per head/per day. That policy didn't work so great last year in a drought :roll:
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Is your rental pasture completely fenced?

How long does it take you to find your cattle when you need them in?

Can you see all of your cattle every time you go to look at them?

Do you have exclusive use of this ground?

Do you have to deal with predators?

If you need new fencing do you pay for it yourself because your landlord doesn't have the funding to do it?

These are a few points of why our govt. grass is so "cheap". :roll:
 
gcreekrch said:
Grassfarmer said:
Silver said:
Crown range runs in the ball park of $2.50 per AUM (animal unit month). A cow calf pair is an animal unit, a yrlg is about .75 I think, and bulls about 1.25.
Private land prices can be all over the place. We rent a section and a half of private land that comes with about 6 secions of crown grazing for $5000 / yr. There is about 250 acres of pretty fair hay on it we can cut and the rest is pretty good pasture. I don't know if that's a good deal or not but it works for us.
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You folks in BC that claim the Government doesn't like ranchers sure get a cosy deal on crown pasture rental :wink: :D I'm paying in the region of 70-80 cents/day/pair on average with the yearlings at 2/3rds of that. I tend to rent by offering a price for the pasture then use my grass management to get the price down to a reasonable rate per head/per day. That policy didn't work so great last year in a drought :roll:
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Is your rental pasture completely fenced?

How long does it take you to find your cattle when you need them in?

Can you see all of your cattle every time you go to look at them?

Do you have exclusive use of this ground?

Do you have to deal with predators?

If you need new fencing do you pay for it yourself because your landlord doesn't have the funding to do it?

These are a few points of why our govt. grass is so "cheap". :roll:
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I would think most of your reasons apply to extensive land bases in bush/mountain/wilds whether they are crown lease or not. I'll concede on the exclusive land use and fencing issues as although we do tend to repair the fences we may get a little discount on rental for that.
Still a fair difference between $2.50 a month and $25-$30. I wouldn't want to swap with you though, was just pointing out how cheap your grazing costs are compared to most operators in N. America. :-)
 
Grassfarmer said:
gcreekrch said:
Grassfarmer said:
You folks in BC that claim the Government doesn't like ranchers sure get a cosy deal on crown pasture rental :wink: :D I'm paying in the region of 70-80 cents/day/pair on average with the yearlings at 2/3rds of that. I tend to rent by offering a price for the pasture then use my grass management to get the price down to a reasonable rate per head/per day. That policy didn't work so great last year in a drought :roll:
Click to expand...

Is your rental pasture completely fenced?

How long does it take you to find your cattle when you need them in?

Can you see all of your cattle every time you go to look at them?

Do you have exclusive use of this ground?

Do you have to deal with predators?

If you need new fencing do you pay for it yourself because your landlord doesn't have the funding to do it?

These are a few points of why our govt. grass is so "cheap". :roll:
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I would think most of your reasons apply to extensive land bases in bush/mountain/wilds whether they are crown lease or not. I'll concede on the exclusive land use and fencing issues as although we do tend to repair the fences we may get a little discount on rental for that.
Still a fair difference between $2.50 a month and $25-$30. I wouldn't want to swap with you though, was just pointing out how cheap your grazing costs are compared to most operators in N. America. :-)
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It would probably average out to 10-12 bucks a month all costs except years where pred losses are high.
Managed private grass is .45 to .65 per day for yearlings and .60 to .90 for pairs including salt, plus medicine. You gets what you pays for. :wink:
 

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