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Share/Lease Cows

Best advice I can give you is if your going to do the work. Why not get the whole check and pay the bank to own them rather then to make someone else money. But that just me.
 
Lease cows can come with grass that you can't procure any other way. As well not every young or old buck has a credit rating that the bank looks upon as favorable. Leasing the cows covers a few other ways of cat skinning.
 
Young pairs here are bumping 3K. If you have grass and winter feed it might be a good time to let someone else carry the risk of owning them.
 
Don't know where there are any, but we leased 2 different herds of cattle (one for 3 years and one we are still leasing)...best thing we ever did. We had our own raised bunch of cows too and leasing was the only way we could expand our herd, fast, and without going in debt. Both herds had different genetics and were/are some great cows. We were able to go from keeping 20 replacement heifers to keeping 50-65 top quality ones each year. We went from having 50 head to 150 head of mother cows plus 55 yearlings in a matter of 3 years. They supplied the bulls---and good ones at that. The owners culled the herd at our recommendation and we paid them for their cut of the calf crop after shipping. Like I said, best thing we ever did...good for the cow owners too. They would have had to pay a bunch of taxes if they had decided to sell their cows outright initially. Good luck to you finding some to lease...maybe talk to your local vet and auction yard...
 
Wyoming Wind said:
Don't know where there are any, but we leased 2 different herds of cattle (one for 3 years and one we are still leasing)...best thing we ever did. We had our own raised bunch of cows too and leasing was the only way we could expand our herd, fast, and without going in debt. Both herds had different genetics and were/are some great cows. We were able to go from keeping 20 replacement heifers to keeping 50-65 top quality ones each year. We went from having 50 head to 150 head of mother cows plus 55 yearlings in a matter of 3 years. They supplied the bulls---and good ones at that. The owners culled the herd at our recommendation and we paid them for their cut of the calf crop after shipping. Like I said, best thing we ever did...good for the cow owners too. They would have had to pay a bunch of taxes if they had decided to sell their cows outright initially. Good luck to you finding some to lease...maybe talk to your local vet and auction yard...
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What kind of lease are you on?
 
George said:
Is it a 50/50 split or 70/30 or is it a dollar amount?
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The cow owner get a 1/3 of 85%...the top remaining 15% is built in for death loss. If we have a good year with not much death loss it's kinda a bit of a "bonus". Have in the contract too that on 100 cows, if there is more than 2 cows dead in a year we pay for the additional dead cow (market value). So far haven't had to deal with that :wink: . The one lease the owner didn't replace the open cows. The other lessor does...it all works pretty well. We market their cut of the calves along with ours too. We provide everything---cow and calf vaccine, feed, etc. We run the cows like they are our own.
 
I agree with Per, Like Augus 62 says the $ cows are bringing today (Especially if you do not know the cows) I would really think this over before buying 100 cows if one needed to borrow the money, if you have it that's a different matter! I leased cows in the past when I needed my capital for land a equipment and like Wyoming Wind it worked out for me. Good luck Wyo Heeler 101
 
Wyoming Wind said:
George said:
Is it a 50/50 split or 70/30 or is it a dollar amount?
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The cow owner get a 1/3 of 85%...the top remaining 15% is built in for death loss. If we have a good year with not much death loss it's kinda a bit of a "bonus". Have in the contract too that on 100 cows, if there is more than 2 cows dead in a year we pay for the additional dead cow (market value). So far haven't had to deal with that :wink: . The one lease the owner didn't replace the open cows. The other lessor does...it all works pretty well. We market their cut of the calves along with ours too. We provide everything---cow and calf vaccine, feed, etc. We run the cows like they are our own.
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That sounds like a lease that could work well for you!
 

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