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Re: Making money on a Small Farm
[Re: toothdoc]
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08/18/11 02:58 PM
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Organic Herbs for restaurants Organic flowers/herbs for folks making specialty soaps and lotions Fresh greens like jlccoffee said. U-Pick-em blueberries or blackberries (you'd have traffic but just for a limited time)
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Re: Making money on a Small Farm
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08/18/11 03:05 PM
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Those are some good Ideas. We are planting different fruit on our place as we can afford it. Blueberries, peaches, muscadines, apples ect. We hope to one day have a Upick operation. Just going slow and payng for it as we go. You also have to figure your irrigation cost.
The challege you face will be to pay someone and break even. The fruit is a lot of work initialy with no income.
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Re: Making money on a Small Farm
[Re: YEKRUT]
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08/18/11 03:10 PM
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The cattle market is not great right now. Cows are not selling for much, so buying them is not a problem, selling them is. How many years has it been since you have sold any cattle? They are through the roof right now. It has been a year or so. After I typed this, I checked the sale prices lately, and I agree. The price has gone up a lot in the last year. So it isn't a good time to buy them, I will admit my mistake and flip my answer. Toothdoc, you want to buy some cows? The thing about cows is, if you are going to raise calves, you need a least an acre of land for each cow calf pair. Some people say two acres. It depends on how much you want to feed and hay you want to give them and how good your grass is. That is where the real cost comes in. In the winter, 10-15 cows will eat a lot of hay. Last fall, we averaged probably a round bale of hay every week per 5 cows.
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Re: Making money on a Small Farm
[Re: toothdoc]
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08/18/11 03:18 PM
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I usually get paid for evaluating properties for best use classification. But since this is a wild as guess seems how I nothing about the layout, terrain, and location of the property I'll give you a freebie. You get what you pay for. Dove Field? Retriever Training? Archery Range? Honey Bees? Sharecrop? Fee Catfish Pond? Don't even know if you have a place for a pond. Driving Range? Trail hiking? RV Campsites? My personal favorite, timber. --I'd suggest intense longleaf management with reforestation efforts directly correlated to capitalize on the growing pinestraw market. Within 6 years you could be making big money. Combination of the above?
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Re: Making money on a Small Farm
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08/18/11 03:38 PM
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There's a market for pinestraw?? I thought about the honey too
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Re: Making money on a Small Farm
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08/18/11 04:09 PM
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You should build a small (<1 acre) shallow pond, fence in with hog wire about 3-4 acres and build dog kennels. You could board 30-40 dogs with one person on the payroll. At $10 - $20 a day boarding fee you'll book it out all spring, summer and fall 7 days a week. Winter will be slow. $500 a day for 200 days would more than cover construction, help and costs. If you really get brave you could get a mobile home to use for your hand and make it an office. Let him do all your farm upkeep on the side for room/board. P
not sure what the best way to handle them is but they shouldnt be on tv and gettn married and raisin kids
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Re: Making money on a Small Farm
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08/18/11 08:01 PM
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Put you in one of the oriental massage parlors that gives a happy ending to the massage for an extra $20. You hear about them up here getting busted from time to time, but I think you could rake the dough in before you got busted. I represented a Korean that ran one of those places. She made a ton of money, but now she is in jail. I also represented a Mexican that was busted by the Feds for running illegal Mexican hookers. He is not in jail, we got the charges thrown out. So, as I see it, you got a 50-50 chance. Sounds like the hookers is a better deal to me
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Re: Making money on a Small Farm
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08/19/11 07:16 AM
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The only money making reply... J/K Toothdoc, we've got about 300 between leased and owned and couldn't make a profit if we hired things done. If you figure out how to make a profit without working it yourself on 30 acres, please let me know.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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Re: Making money on a Small Farm
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08/19/11 07:18 AM
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Put you in one of the oriental massage parlors that gives a happy ending to the massage for an extra $20. You hear about them up here getting busted from time to time, but I think you could rake the dough in before you got busted. That's the Exra Specia Numba 2. It only take 10 minnet
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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Re: Making money on a Small Farm
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08/19/11 08:30 AM
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If you don't mind the noise of a bunch of dogs around your house, you might be better off to consider fighting cocks. I don't think he wanted 3toe and Buckscent to be involved.
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Re: Making money on a Small Farm
[Re: toothdoc]
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08/19/11 12:09 PM
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Can we use the term Fighting Chickens so that everything is perfectly clear? No...the hens don't fight. If you can't get with the lingo, best stay out of the business.
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Re: Making money on a Small Farm
[Re: toothdoc]
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08/20/11 07:12 AM
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toothdoc, (if you haven't figured it out) I don't really have a good answer for you. I do know this for a FACT, you cannot make money with 10 head or less of cattle. If you could find a niche market for grass fed beef, you wouldn't be able to have but half the # of momma cows because you'd have to keep, and graze the calves for 15-18 months.
To become certified as organic is not an easy process.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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Re: Making money on a Small Farm
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08/20/11 10:05 AM
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toothdoc,
To become certified as organic is not an easy process.
takes 3 years
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Re: Making money on a Small Farm
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08/20/11 10:41 AM
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Knowing where your land is, hogs may not go over well. The cattle market is not great right now. Cows are not selling for much, so buying them is not a problem, selling them is. On 20 acres, I don't think you are going to be able to have enough live stock to turn a profit.
What about building a barn and some riding facilities and offering horse boarding. Where you are, it would be very likely to be successful. That would allow you to hire someone to work there taking care of the horses and working your garden. Where are you getting your info? Cattle prices have been at an all time high for the past 6-8 months. They are tapering off slightly, killing bulls & cull cows that is, but calves are still bringing big prices. I sold some 8-9 weight calves for $120.00 per cwt. But you're spot on with the number of cattle on that acreage being high profit prohibitive. You might net $200.00 per head but with 10 head that won't go very far. There are so many using farming as a tax shelter, it's a tough business now.
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