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- From: de5@ORNL.GOV (Dave Sill)
- Subject: Need advice re: cattle
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.132425.11566@ornl.gov>
- Sender: usenet@ornl.gov (News poster)
- Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 13:24:25 GMT
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- Background: I've got 31 acres (about 10 cleared) in East Tennessee, fenced
- and crossfenced, with a good-sized pond. I've only been here since June,
- and I don't have any experience raising livestock.
-
- My neighbor came over yesterday to ask me if I was interested in renting the
- land to him to run some cattle on. I was planning on buying a couple calves
- in the spring, but told him I'd be interested in working out some kind of
- deal where he'd show me the ropes--help me buy and raise two calves--in
- return for me letting him run 15 calves on my land.
-
- Questions...
-
- 1. What's the going rate for enough land to support 15 calves for a year?
-
- 2. What would be an equitable trade for the use of my land? Should I ask
- him to buy my two calves, do all the tagging/deworming/vaccinations for
- them, feed them (he feeds crushed corn mixed with syrup), etc? Is that
- asking too much or not enough? How about if I do the daily
- feeding/watering?
-
- 3. How should I provide him access to the land? We've got plenty of common
- fenceline--he could put in a gate, but it'd be in the woods, not the cleared
- area. There's a gate into the front piece by the road, but it's probably
- too steep to drive a pickup through. There's another gate into the back
- piece, but getting to it requires driving through our back yard, and I
- really don't want a lot of traffic there (kids and dogs, privacy).
-
- 4. We've been enjoying hiking through the woods and fishing in the pond.
- Will we still be able to do that with 17 calves running around in there?
- How dangerous are they? It would be pretty easy to fence off the woods if I
- had to.
-
- 5. What kind of terms and conditions should we agree to? Should I get
- something in writing? If it looks like I'm going to do this, I'll talk to
- the local ag. ext. agent.
-
- I'd appreciate any answers, advice, or comments anyone has to offer. I need
- to decide ASAP, though, since he wants to buy the calves soon and start to
- "get them ready", as he says.
-
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