Your hard work should be worth more. That you love what you do is a bonus for the animal and the people who watch your videos. Love your videos. God Bless!
Ahhh, the glorious life of being a small farmer. Rolling in the big bucks, lol. Our end goal is 2 calves a year. One to keep and one to sell to help offset the costs of the one we keep.
Thank you for the breakdown, lots of people around me raise cattle and they do well, but I notice that they lease properties in order to have more quantity and land for them to graze … however when talking about numbers they are never clear, but I guess the pasture and the length of stay can vary, making different amounts of profit. This was very clear and to the point! Thank you Mike
The more pasture you have the more profitable. We are hopefully going to purchase some more land to graze and crop share. We are just waiting for the right opportunity. Of course then you have another land and tax payment…😃
@HowDidIGet3700Subs dang. I must have misplaced my millions or someone robbed me before I knew I had it. We raise animals, no profit at all. But we know where it comes from and it's cheaper than store bought.
We are in northern Michigan. A local butcher comes to the farm dispatches the animal, skins, and guts on the farm then takes carcass to his shop to hang 10-14 days before cutting.
Sounds like your selling grass fed/finished beef. I think you can sell closer to $8-10 per pound. Or you can charge differently for the different cuts of beef. For ex $8/lb burger, $10/lb steaks and roasts.
Yes. We just aren’t in the best location to get that price for whole and half’s. We do have a freezer license now and will start selling cuts right at the farm.
Haha, dude is telliNg the truth, I calve to finish 60 180total animals make 15k a year, haha i like cattle most of the time. Haha unless they randomly get sick and die in the winter then I make nothng haha, plus I work out haha, it can suck
It’s getting better. The different operations on the farm are paying for themselves with some extra to upgrade. But essentially free food is a nice commodity😀
In the comments, Gloria said it very well. I appreciate your videos and all I have learned from watching...Thank you.
Your hard work should be worth more. That you love what you do is a bonus for the animal and the people who watch your videos. Love your videos. God Bless!
Thank you Gloria!
Ahhh, the glorious life of being a small farmer. Rolling in the big bucks, lol. Our end goal is 2 calves a year. One to keep and one to sell to help offset the costs of the one we keep.
We did that model with our meat chickens raised 50 for us and sold 50. The 50 we sold paid for ours. Our beef waitlist quickly went out to 2025!
Thank you for the breakdown, lots of people around me raise cattle and they do well, but I notice that they lease properties in order to have more quantity and land for them to graze … however when talking about numbers they are never clear, but I guess the pasture and the length of stay can vary, making different amounts of profit.
This was very clear and to the point!
Thank you Mike
The more pasture you have the more profitable. We are hopefully going to purchase some more land to graze and crop share. We are just waiting for the right opportunity. Of course then you have another land and tax payment…😃
@@SweetBriarFarmMichigan no kidding!
All that matters is that y’all enjoy it.
@HowDidIGet3700Subs dang. I must have misplaced my millions or someone robbed me before I knew I had it. We raise animals, no profit at all. But we know where it comes from and it's cheaper than store bought.
Mike, take my money. Beef looks great
Yes!
Nice.
Cool
Do you send them to local butcher to process? What state are they in when they go? Full animal, field dressed, etc?
We are in northern Michigan. A local butcher comes to the farm dispatches the animal, skins, and guts on the farm then takes carcass to his shop to hang 10-14 days before cutting.
One jumped right over the hot wire
Sounds like your selling grass fed/finished beef. I think you can sell closer to $8-10 per pound. Or you can charge differently for the different cuts of beef. For ex $8/lb burger, $10/lb steaks and roasts.
Yes. We just aren’t in the best location to get that price for whole and half’s. We do have a freezer license now and will start selling cuts right at the farm.
Haha, dude is telliNg the truth, I calve to finish 60 180total animals make 15k a year, haha i like cattle most of the time. Haha unless they randomly get sick and die in the winter then I make nothng haha, plus I work out haha, it can suck
Perhaps a small profit, yes. I usually sell 1-2 and they pay for our beef that we keep for ourselves
It’s getting better. The different operations on the farm are paying for themselves with some extra to upgrade. But essentially free food is a nice commodity😀
@@SweetBriarFarmMichigan that’s how I view it. You know where your food comes from.