Cattle feeders (hay)

[RayTurner]

Insightful common smcgrath76.
You’ve given me some concepts to think about. Ultimately, I think on our ranch want to look at switching up our setup to make things easier/improve efficiency.

15444 – HAHAHA… you like hunting buddy?

[RayTurner]

Well, apparently I cannot spell.
I meant to say comment not common.

[T.N.T.]

Why do some grain farmers farm 40000 acres 15444?Same reason we run 1600 cows,because we can and we will continue to get larger.Defiantly not to service debt,and no we don't have or anyone in the family have high lifestyles,unless you call people taking a vacation every year a high lifestyle?We all have a strong work ethnic,and we all want to see the farm continue to get larger for the next generation.And we don't like giving money to the tax man anymore then anyone else does.

[T.N.T.]

Ray Turner we have the cows on 4 different tubground piles that are each 400' long and the base is roughly 30' wide and probably 20' high or maybe more.The end boards are up when we start grinding and we grind one consistant height for the 400' and then put the end boards up at the other end when were done.We run 2 cables down both sides,bottom cable i believe is 34"s top one 4' or so.Run a cable on the end boards at one end and depending on where the pile is located we will either use a electric or a battery operated fencer,the bottom cables for both sides of the pile slide on top of that end cable so you have hot wires on both sides.We had been using 2 tractors and processors for feeding previous to my son suggesting we try this way 2 years ago,wish i would have known about this way of feeding 20 years ago!

[15444]

Ray, not in particular. I just hate most wild 4 leggers and the damage they do to farm assets. Only one I get along with is foxes. If I could have a few dens of foxes in every quarter, I would be a happy camper. Not only fun to watch their antics, but kill a lot of the smaller vermin.

TNT, so your telling me the sole reason to get bigger is because you can? I could never wrap my head around that rationale.

[KoolRanch55]

That’s the line right there! > “we don't like giving money to the tax man any more than anyone else does.” This is the problem with our industry, we fight amongst ourselves.

T.N.T > Interesting that you said your son came up with the idea. I am curious, how did he know about it? Did he go to school for forage management?
And what’s wrong with getting bigger?

[grassfarmer]

You have a strange concept of what "fighting among ourselves is"
Not giving money to the taxman has been mentioned by two posters in this thread and they were in agreement.

[15444]

In the end, running a large operation will eventually mean a big payout for the tax man anyways, unless you have well-thought-out 10 year exit strategy.