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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 7567488" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>I've been giving your question more thought.</p><p></p><p>Probably comes up with the same answer as well, but here one of the limiting factors with production ag is how do you get rid? </p><p>Whether lambs or cattle, a lot of the relative "success" of the venture comes down to selling your lamb or beef at the right time.</p><p></p><p>The right time... well, that's usually once all the bottleneck has gone, and the bottleneck is pretty huge through the season because of the great push on what you described - lets call it fast farming for simplicity - eg this massive glut of meat lined up to go get killed and shipped.</p><p></p><p>Covid made it worse, container shortages and processors waiting for a positive test to shut their plant down, but even in a relatively normal season there is massive disadvantage to the producer to sell product at reduced rates, even if it is gone really fast off the farm.</p><p>Think if we still sold lamb here, 700 lambs at $5/kg vs $6.50/kg is a huge amount of income to forgo just to "beat the drought" and a similar amount of money would pay for lamb finishing feed and winter crops for the ewes. Plus probably a bit of N going in to compensate for area lost to the cropping bit, or some bought in feed...</p><p></p><p>this is what I'm balancing our little business against, the undeniable fact that "you can't beat stupid" and it's like playing chess with a pigeon if you try that for too long on a smallholding.</p><p></p><p>Hence the "tortoise mode grazing", surely there are faster ways but I think this is our best way</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 7567488, member: 63856"] I've been giving your question more thought. Probably comes up with the same answer as well, but here one of the limiting factors with production ag is how do you get rid? Whether lambs or cattle, a lot of the relative "success" of the venture comes down to selling your lamb or beef at the right time. The right time... well, that's usually once all the bottleneck has gone, and the bottleneck is pretty huge through the season because of the great push on what you described - lets call it fast farming for simplicity - eg this massive glut of meat lined up to go get killed and shipped. Covid made it worse, container shortages and processors waiting for a positive test to shut their plant down, but even in a relatively normal season there is massive disadvantage to the producer to sell product at reduced rates, even if it is gone really fast off the farm. Think if we still sold lamb here, 700 lambs at $5/kg vs $6.50/kg is a huge amount of income to forgo just to "beat the drought" and a similar amount of money would pay for lamb finishing feed and winter crops for the ewes. Plus probably a bit of N going in to compensate for area lost to the cropping bit, or some bought in feed... this is what I'm balancing our little business against, the undeniable fact that "you can't beat stupid" and it's like playing chess with a pigeon if you try that for too long on a smallholding. Hence the "tortoise mode grazing", surely there are faster ways but I think this is our best way [/QUOTE]
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