How profitable is passive cattle farming?

[Anonymous No.15797606]

just buy a couple cows and let them eat the grass
after a few months sell them for profit and buy more cows
sounds like the easiest living ever

[Anonymous No.15797614]

[Anonymous No.15797617]

>>15797606
Is this a political chart for cowe

[Anonymous No.15797623]

>>15797606
Based and red polled

[Anonymous No.15797635]

>>15797606
that sounds amazing, does anyone have any more info on this.


and farming in general I want to start farming to supplement my income.

[Anonymous No.15797637]

>>15797606
Not very. It's an oversaturated market and you still have to make sure your cows meet health regulations with vaccines, etc. which all costs money.

[Anonymous No.15797643]

This is now a /cow farming/ board

[Anonymous No.15797646]

>>15797606
>the grass

Hiw much land do you have? Is your land enclosed? What will you do if they get sick? You can sell a cow for about $2000 but the calves are worth way less.

Why would your adult cows be worth more after a few months?

[Anonymous No.15797647]

Ur fucked come winter retard. Hay and water. Land and acres. It all adds up so unless you know what you’re doing and how to pull a calf out of a vagina while avoiding cow shit you should probs stick to the city, drone.

[Anonymous No.15797660]

farming isnt passive though its a job

[Anonymous No.15797662]

>>15797647
However I am sure you could open up a dating app for cowsXhumans so I suppose there is potential revenue here.

[Anonymous No.15797669]

>>15797635
If you were to purchase a young bull for $1,000 and five ready-to-breed heifers for $1,500 each, your $8,500 investment will likely produce five calves that will be fed for free (by their mothers and your pastures) each year for 12 to 15 years.

What can you do with these calves?

You could sell them as stockers when they are weaned for anywhere from a few hundred to, perhaps, a thousand dollars or so each, depending on market conditions at the time.

However, if you were to finish raising the calves as organic grass-fed beef, it is likely that each calf would become worth at least $2,200 for you (net). This assumes selling to consumers in urban markets. Often the prices are even higher than this and prices have been rising steadily over the past few years. That’s in your favor, but keep in mind that there is a ramp-up period of a couple of years before you realize any income, since it will take roughly 24-28 months to “finish” the cows.

you need like 20 acres of pasture
Once your “beeves” are ready for market beginning in year three, those five heifers (now cows) will be throwing off about $11,000 per year in gross profit ($2,200 per calf X five per year). If they do this for 12 years, then your initial investment of $8,500 for the bull and heifers will return a gross profit of $132,000. Again, that’s only with one bull and five cows. If you have the land you an multiply the herd size to fit your resources. Try safely getting those returns in the financial stock market.

[Anonymous No.15797686]

>>15797647
cows don't know how to have babies, I need to be an animal obstetrician? lol

[Anonymous No.15797690]

>>15797623
I'm going to start breeding some red polls

[Anonymous No.15797691]

You need a barn for them at night. There are laws for that depending on where you live.
Water. Lots of fucking water.
You'll have to pay to haul off the cow shit or you'll be ankle deep in it a couple weeks.

[Anonymous No.15797698]

>>15797646
I'm going to buy dirt cheap land in central PA and sell all the lumber
then I'm going to raise pigs to clear my woods and then throw cover crop for the cows to eat
then my neet life will have continual income and I will never have to worry about the market jew

[Anonymous No.15797711]

>>15797691
cow poo is fertilizer
I'll have people paying me

[Anonymous No.15797719]

>>15797686
You need to supervise to make sure the calf doesn’t get stuck and die in the open vagina. Cow raising is a lot of work, the only way to make it more autonomous is to have hundreds and just let them die off if they do so after vaccine. Otherwise you need to include drone ai recognition or surveillance to get the autonomy you want.

[Anonymous No.15797723]

>>15797669
Thank you so much for your advice! I really appreciate the help, and that all sounds great, but I assume this means I'll need to do something else for work during the "ramp up" period.

I also must confess I am interested in raising specialty livestock like emu. any idea if theres any profit in that?

>>15797698
never thought about farmers as neets, but I see your point, sounds like an awesome life. Personally I'm looking to scoop up a farm in Oregon somewhere in Douglas county.

[Anonymous No.15797729]

>>15797711
no offense but that's some overly wishful thinking.

[Anonymous No.15797735]

>>15797637
>>15797647
>>15797660
these anons know

>>15797669
this anon is all hat and no cattle

youre gonna have more in land and operating costs than profit for a lonnnnng time. people dont fuck around with a "hobby farm" which is what your plans are. if you dont have a truck and trailer you gotta pay someone else to do that. the vets cost money. the sale barn takes a %. if you send them out to get finished, a feed lot where they get fatter, you loose another cut. how much is your time worth?

>>15797698
>dirt cheap land in central PA
destined to fail man. and i doubt your neet ass is gonna wake up in the middle of the night, EVERY NIGHT to go make sure their water tanks arent froze over. sorry but thems the breaks

[Anonymous No.15797743]

>>15797635
>>15797606
It sucks. My parents have 26 acres, they kept 10 head of cattle on it. By the time you pay for vet and transport fees it was enough to pay the quaterly council rates.

To make money on farming you need to go large, and then it becomes a full time job anyway, with huge hours and huge risk.

[Anonymous No.15797764]

>>15797723
yeah I don't know maybe emu farming is better
>>15797735
I'll have a compost/mulch pile next to the water tanks

[Anonymous No.15797771]

>>15797743
>>15797735
that's a real bummer to hear, but I thank you for your honesty, I'm confused about how much I hear about hobby farming and it's wonders as a side hustle, but I suppose that's wishful thinking.

I actually volunteered as a farmhand for a few years, and it was very rewarding, but certainly hard work...

perhaps it's better for me to simply keep some animals on my land as a hobby instead of trying to make profit.

>>15797764
I'll look into it, maybe the trick is to do something that doesn't have a very large business counterpart.

[Anonymous No.15797774]

>>15797764
What you could do is grow mushrooms and controlled vegetation farming. You don’t even need an acre for that and you’ll be able to grow most things in a controlled environment.

[Anonymous No.15797783]

>>15797735
>i doubt your neet ass is gonna wake up in the middle of the night, EVERY NIGHT to go make sure their water tanks arent froze over.

oh wow man that gives me flash backs to my farmhand days, it was in rhode island, so you can imagine some of the issues we ran into

pic related was my soul on those winter nights checking on the horses

>>15797764
perhaps you could do aquaculture or herpetoculture, I've done both and it can be very profitable with some luck and work

[Anonymous No.15797790]

>>15797774
oh yeah I've grown cubensis before and I know all about edible gourmet mushrooms and outdoor mushroom hunting
I have a few unique spore prints from my area, I might have one the the best psilocybe ovoid prints
it's the distribution side I'm not sure about
>>15797771
yeah volunteering on a farm is rewarding, but the weed pulling is horrible
I'd like something that's different, like if I were to grow crops it would be aquaponics nothing in the ground

[Anonymous No.15797805]

>>15797606
This is unironically the best thread on /biz/ right now. >>15797606

[Anonymous No.15797811]

>>15797790
Nice, well carry on with that then. Organic sand gourmet is good shit, if you’re up for a challenge you could try avocados. It’s difficult without controlled env but if you know your spores then you’d have a good shot. I think you just need a license or certificate approved to sell your foods, not 100%. I just know it’s easier than cattle which is a good thing.

[Anonymous No.15797814]

>>15797764
>I'll have a compost/mulch pile next to the water tanks
unsanitary

>>15797771
>it's better for me to simply keep some animals on my land as a hobby instead of trying to make profit
thats really what it is, a labor of love for those who already have the means. really though i wanna have a plot of land one day and just have an old cow wander around it. it'll be my big dog

>>15797783
sorry for the flashback man. ill honestly say i wouldnt have wanted any part of it if i wasnt born into it as a nebraskan

[Anonymous No.15797815]

>>15797790
Lol I wouldn't know about the weeding, it was all animals, no crops, goats, ponies, horses, alpacas, sheep, ducks, chicken, geese, and even peacocks... I miss it.

>>15797814
good to know, maybe I am cut out for it then.

[Anonymous No.15797826]

>>15797814
haha no worries, those nights sucked but it was worth it in the end

[Anonymous No.15797828]

>>15797815
I got a drug charge a few years ago and needed to do 100 hours of volunteering and chose an organic vegetable farm
pulling weeds in the sun is shit

[Anonymous No.15797829]

you have 2 cows...

[Anonymous No.15797863]

If you want passive, you could buy the land and just rent it out to farmers; you'll get a bit of money without much work, but I doubt you will make a return on the cost of the land for a long time. And of course, like all rentals, the farmers could trash the land by illegally dumping in your fields and ruining the soil.

You could just grow grass and sell the silage/hay. But again, that will take a long time to recoup investment. Farming is never easy, it's a lot of hard work for very few rewards.

[Anonymous No.15797896]

>>15797863
>you could buy the land and just rent it out to farmers
this is a good start. midwest farmers would grow corn and then after the harvest turn cattle out on it. sucked ass putting up electric fences. and then you gotta go roll that shit up in a few months

[Anonymous No.15797948]

>>15797815
oh yeah also one heritage turkey named george, and two swans. One of which was a demon.

>>15797828
doesn't sounds great, I'd prefer watering livestock and cleaning shit to that.

[Anonymous No.15798339]

>>15797606
>passive cattle farming
that's called animal torture and negligence
it will cost you money and most importantly effort to raise and protect your cattle. unless you have fuckhuge lands that have naturally everything they need with no predators but then you could make a lot lot more money off of it.