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- From: boldtp@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (ACE-CADET)
- Newsgroups: misc.rural
- Subject: Re: Real Farms
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.175146.8815@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 17:51:46 EST
- References: <1992Sep3.205924.27072@news.iastate.edu> <1992Sep3.184415.1@cc.uvcc.edu> <1992Sep4.021727.13086@news.iastate.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep4.021727.13086@news.iastate.edu>, mpleis@iastate.edu (Cowboy) writes:
- > In article <1992Sep3.184415.1@cc.uvcc.edu> coleve@cc.uvcc.edu writes:
- >>In article <1992Sep3.205924.27072@news.iastate.edu>, mpleis@iastate.edu
- >>(Cowboy) writes:
- >>>
- >>> Our farm this year is as follows:
- >>> 2500 acres crops
- >> 2500 acres * $1000/acre = $2.5 Million
- >
- > A change is needed here land is $1500/acre
- >
- >>> 90 head dairy soon to be 300+ (Reg. Jerseys)
- >> 300 * $1000/head = $300,000
- >
- > We are talking Registered cattle $1300/head
- >
- >>> 4 families live and work the farm
- >> 4 homes * $50,000 = $200,000
- > 4homes 2 at $20,000, 1 at $100,000 and 1 at $10,000
- >
- >> annual payroll about $200,000 including benefits?
- > Pay? try about $20,000 per family including benefits
- >
- >>> N.E. Iowa location
- >> don't forget a 1/4M$ dairy barn, tractors, implements, umm $750,000
- > The barn new with free stalls is $800,000
- > Implements I can't even give a price on I can gues 2.4mil but it's low
- >
- >>My calculator says $3,850,000 in capitol with a $300,000 annual payroll.
- >>What you have there is a factory located in a rural area -- hardly even
- >>qualifies as a farm. (Four Million Bucks!)
- >>
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- Ok, my calculator says $6,240.000 in capitol with an $80,000 annual payroll.
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- Thats a 1.28 percent ROI over inflation. So, why don't you sell the place
- and invest? Why struggle along with $20K/year annual income, when your
- sitting on ($6.24M/4 = ) $1.56 Million?
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