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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 5867886" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>I don't have any idea of his figures, however I do know we make more profit from 40ha than they do off 600ha or so.</p><p></p><p>Seems an awful difference just for walking out and rolling up some polywires....</p><p></p><p>We'll put about 280kg on 100 cattle and sell 90 lambs @48kg, not counting grazing over winter where we put about 8-10kg on 400 hoggets.</p><p>So that's about 910kg/ha or so.</p><p></p><p>He'll sell 2400 lambs @44kg and 40 calves at c. 300kg so about 200kg/ha.</p><p></p><p>The main difference is that they use fertilisers, and animal health products, and grow winter crops etc - we do none of that.</p><p></p><p>Our main cost is our finance and insurance, (which I'm fortunate enough not to need but have anyway) it's more the principle; I need to show the kids that they can do this, too! </p><p>The only variable costs here are the silage, and costs of hauling stock here to fatten. The rest would be here even if the farm was empty.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 5867886, member: 63856"] I don't have any idea of his figures, however I do know we make more profit from 40ha than they do off 600ha or so. Seems an awful difference just for walking out and rolling up some polywires.... We'll put about 280kg on 100 cattle and sell 90 lambs @48kg, not counting grazing over winter where we put about 8-10kg on 400 hoggets. So that's about 910kg/ha or so. He'll sell 2400 lambs @44kg and 40 calves at c. 300kg so about 200kg/ha. The main difference is that they use fertilisers, and animal health products, and grow winter crops etc - we do none of that. Our main cost is our finance and insurance, (which I'm fortunate enough not to need but have anyway) it's more the principle; I need to show the kids that they can do this, too! The only variable costs here are the silage, and costs of hauling stock here to fatten. The rest would be here even if the farm was empty. [/QUOTE]
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