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re: Any Ranchers out there ? Tell me about it...
Posted on 1/10/26 at 9:00 am to 844_Tiger
Posted on 1/10/26 at 9:00 am to 844_Tiger
You really need to inherit one to be profitable. My family had a small two generation cattle farm. That was all my life was for 20 years. Ran brangus and limousine.
At one point we had our calves sold before they were born because of the good genetics we had. Your life revolves around their feeding and weather.
We sold the cattle and rarely miss it. It’s hard work.
At one point we had our calves sold before they were born because of the good genetics we had. Your life revolves around their feeding and weather.
We sold the cattle and rarely miss it. It’s hard work.
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Posted on 1/31/26 at 4:27 pm to Junky
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Do you love it? Absolutely. We work all the time. The thing is no one is our boss and reporting to no one but yourself. We have the same outlook for the farm, so we don’t fight over goals or definitions of success. Really just looking at increasing the heard size but being extremely picky on who we are keeping. We may introduce some south poll bulls when the prices go down.
Thank you for your reply and best of luck out there!
Posted on 1/31/26 at 5:16 pm to 844_Tiger
Pretty cool when you find a new one of these hanging out in the pasture.
Posted on 1/31/26 at 6:31 pm to TheHarahanian
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My ranch is in a hidden valley. No cattle but the salads are awesome.
Now I want to buy land in a valley and start a ranch for no other reason than to name it “hidden valley ranch”
This is why it would probably be good that I never win the lottery
Posted on 1/31/26 at 6:35 pm to Bronco11
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You can have incredibly great years financially and then be ruined nearly overnight.
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but it's a lot more than 40 a week and you are on call at all times.
Sounds like catfish farming
Posted on 1/31/26 at 6:36 pm to Jim Rockford
Same here. Got two sons. One is a cold, calculating businessman. The other, a hard-as-nails former SEAL whose heart is in the right place but he’ll never take over. My daughter, boy she is a handful. Don’t get on her bad side. Plot twist: everyone is on her bad side. The only soft spot she reserves for the man who I wish was my son. He keeps everyone in line.
Posted on 1/31/26 at 6:36 pm to 844_Tiger
I feel like these days most ranches are just tax write offs for people who make money doing other shite
Posted on 1/31/26 at 6:46 pm to 844_Tiger
The one thing that YS got right was the line about lose money 3 yrs, make money 3yrs, and breakeven 3 yrs. That other year is what set how you do that decade.
Almost impossible to start one these days, need to inherit it for it to be able to make money on its own. It will never cash flow if you are buying everything, land, equipment, and now the cattle at the current prices.
You want to get in bad, lease land, run stockers and piece together busters, dr. them up and make uniform loads.
Hope like hell your death loss don't get ya.
Almost impossible to start one these days, need to inherit it for it to be able to make money on its own. It will never cash flow if you are buying everything, land, equipment, and now the cattle at the current prices.
You want to get in bad, lease land, run stockers and piece together busters, dr. them up and make uniform loads.
Hope like hell your death loss don't get ya.
This post was edited on 1/31/26 at 7:07 pm
Posted on 1/31/26 at 6:48 pm to GreenRockTiger
I think he did that on purpose… like if you hired cowboys, harder to make money (cents ..)
Posted on 1/31/26 at 6:51 pm to Bronco11
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There is a bit of a movement, and growing, to get more producers into regional packing operations. Startup costs are stupid expensive.
Do it. When the catfish industry started decades ago the big corporation feed mills like purina and Cargill raped the industry with high feed. And processing plants owned by ConAgra and Hormel didn’t care about the producers. When Hormel bought Farm Fresh from Joe Glover the pencil pushers came in from up north and took away the fancy company cars from the salesmen, the free coffee and food in the lounge the farmers enjoyed every morning conversating with the plant managers when they brought in fish samples and checked the harvest schedule, and fired many good upper management people because they “were too close to the farmers”
The farmers formed cooperatives and built their own feed mills, and feed dropped 50 dollars a ton overnight. Stockholders got a further discount on feed. They built their own processing plants including the co-op Delta Pride which became at one point the largest processor in the industry with almost 50% of market share. Today all feed mills and processors are either family owned or farmer owned co-ops by local businessmen and producers. We control everything top to bottom. The feed mills buy ingredients and meal from local crushers that buy grains from local grain elevators and farmers. And the same people who own all of the above own the banks too.
It’s reallly quite amazing because it doesn’t exist like this anywhere else. There’s a spirit of individualism and resistance among deltans to keep anyone who isn’t from here the frick out
Posted on 1/31/26 at 6:59 pm to 844_Tiger
H2O Tiger will probably own one sooner than later
Posted on 1/31/26 at 6:59 pm to GREENHEAD22
The key to making money consistently in any type of farming or ranching is to do as much of the work yourself and when your equipment is paid for, maintain it and keep it in good shape.
If you avoid the money drain of relying on managers and labor to do it all and actually give a shite about the operation, and not buy the newest high tech 6-7 figure equipment every 2-3 years you’ll be in the black more often than the red
But it’s a lot of work and you better love doing it
If you avoid the money drain of relying on managers and labor to do it all and actually give a shite about the operation, and not buy the newest high tech 6-7 figure equipment every 2-3 years you’ll be in the black more often than the red
But it’s a lot of work and you better love doing it
Posted on 1/31/26 at 8:35 pm to 844_Tiger
I own four sections on the very southern tip of the Ozark Plateau
Tahlonteeskee, Cherokee Nation. Indian Territory. Bought this place in 1989
for $160 an acre and that included the barns and a five year old three
bedroom two bath brick house. At the time I was scared to death on how I
was going to pay for it ranching. With a white shirt job and meager ranch
profits and working after dark and no vacations, got it done. Did cost two
marriages though.
I run 100-125 steers, 400 ewes and 150 Spanish nannies. That is my
capacity range and labor wise. The land is not all that fit and burns quick.
In drouth times which seems to be ever other year here, that is too many
mouths and they have to be thinned down. What with the economy being
wrecked as it is I don't see how anyone can buy a place, stock it, and even
make wages after the note is paid. I still use a horse to gather with but if
there is anyway possible to use a petrol engine machine I will use it first.
Posted on 2/1/26 at 6:16 pm to deltaland
I know a lot of potato farmers. They live and die on equipment purchases. A lot of them are extremely wealthy.
Here is a video that is well worth the watch for a Sunday afternoon or evening.
Here is a video that is well worth the watch for a Sunday afternoon or evening.
Posted on 2/1/26 at 6:23 pm to billjamin
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Getting a million phone calls from landmen.
We’d be willing to go up to a 20% royalty and the cost free language is approved. I am sending the lease packet tomorrow morning.
Posted on 2/1/26 at 6:31 pm to Herschal
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We’d be willing to go up to a 20% royalty and the cost free language is approved. I am sending the lease packet tomorrow morning.
We have a drilling rig on the little ranch right now. Probably more coming in the big one since we inked a deal with diamondback last year. I actually like the O&G companies. It’s the solar, bitcoin, data center guys that irritate me. And I’m in the renewable space at work.
Also, one plus side of ranching. Every now and then you get one that you want to keep as a pet. Mom is super protective. Couldn’t even get the drone closer to get a better pic. But this one’s cute as they come.
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