kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oNGlo8agv8iakZs.html Folks, I'm gonna share this link along with this video because so many folks don't seem to understand how this farm has a diversified income...not just growing another crop...here's how I earn my living...the cattle part is just a spoke in this business wheel...you've gotta understand that I do things differently, this is how I've built the farm

I love how the cows waited til you took the netting off. Then it was game on. Love ❤ the videos😊

Here in Scotland, I see many farmers struggling because they are stuck in outdated models - selling mainstream produce to wholesalers and/or supermarket chains. The answer is vertical integration - in particular, selling to the public directly. Eggs, beef, lamb and pork do very well when sold direct. Another way to get away from conventional farming is to grow things that nobody else has - one couple I know are doing lavender, others are growing exotic vegetables and selling to specialty shops and restaurants. We grow and sell wild mushrooms and will move to minority-taste vegetables for Chinese and Indian restaurants next year (if I can find the time this year for prepping the land!)

I been a Subscriber for years now and Its awesome Josh it's finally paying off it took a few years but your hard work and dedication is what got it there I don't see how you do it Josh by yourself but you find a way to make it happen

Markets are at all time highs. Glad you did well

Good to see the sale was good to you Josh! Wooooo!

You won’t make that every year. The market has been very good the past couple years.

Man I can hang out with this dude for days. Great family, good ethics and a benefit to his fellow mankind.

So glad u stuck with it and didn’t give up ! That proves u r a successful farmer ! STONEY RIDGE 🙏✝️💫

Thanks for sharing the numbers Josh. Keep doing you!

Cow and calf operation works. Keep it going!

On my lil farm here, I'm learning all the time. I've read the books, but EXPERIENCE is the BEST teacher!!!

Happy for you! Thank you for the education.

I personally think that you are doing a great job Josh. All I can say is, keep doing what you've been doing. It will all pay off in time. Also, thanks for taking the time to make the videos and share them here on youtube. I love your channel. Keep up the great work. Take care and God Bless.

You made the right move reducing the size of your herd. 30-32 head is more sustainable for the pasture you have available. Just keep building up your pastures.

Congrats on the profit. It's nice to see farms making money

Impressive ! A passion for what you do and Hard-work pays off $$ Thanks for sharing 👍

Thanks for the information. Have an amazing day. Take care.

Amazing, all your planning and dedication is paying off.

I have been waiting for this video. Thank you for sharing.

Well done Josh, that's for sharing such important info! You are a working cattle farm for profit not a petting zoo.

Hey brother, I buy half a cow every year. You have a bunch of subscribers. You should start selling the cows as quarter's, halves, or whole cow. Mays meats in Taylorsville, NC is our butcher. The guy we buy from sells the cattle at $6 a pound hanging weight. That would be a lot higher profit margin for you.

thanks Josh for sharing

Great Information...thanks for sharing.

Excellent video, thanks.

Excellent job. We enjoy your videos.

Wonderful!!! Great news!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Thanks Josh for being transparent, I do learn a lot from your experience. I'm on the early stage of cow and calf operation

Very informative thank you josh!

Thank you for all the videos you put out. Informative and helpful content. Stay safe up there and keep on growing 🤠

Congratulations Josh!! Great news. Also can’t wait to see some new animals show up on the farm.

That’s awesome! Really got me focused on starting a cattle farm. America needs more of them and also setup to butcher for local sales.

Good work Josh, man you deserve every dime. Takes time to build any business, but if your business is your life and you enjoy it, that is the perfect situation.

Thanks for the great info Josh!

Sir for your consideration,my father B4 he passed was implementing a new way invested in some cameras,put in fields.sold livestock up front directly to consumers.they can watch ear tags and see cattle grow.got more cutting out cattle market middle man.when ready delivered buyers animal to slaughter house instead of market and they picked up and paid for cut and wrap.he made way more money than B4 cutting out all the middle men.

Good money! can't wait to do this myself!

Thanks for sharing the info. I can see you’re excited. One thing most ppl miss in any operation is the difference between GROSS profit and NET profit. If I was hearing correctly, you were talking about GP.

Great video, I appreciate you sharing these numbers!

Josh. Great job and nice to hear you made a good profit. Not complaints other than more shop videos are needed

Keep up the hard work Josh. You are doing an amazing job.

Thanks for the info. Good luck and prosperity

Congratulations Josh. 🎉I’m happy for you and your success. Your hard work is paying off financially. I’m also pleased that you are doing so much to heal the land . Stay on course and beware of the government. As my dad might have said, “you done good kid!”👍🏼

Josh, I have been watching your videos for a few years now and often wondered if you were turning the corner on making a profit. With the new grand workshop building costs, operating expenses and newly purchased equipment. It was awesome actually having the figures shared with us today. I understand mortgages, of course and short term loans on major equipment purchases; but you seemed to have got on the other side of operating costs of building a profitable farming enterprise and proving it can be accomplished the way Creator intended. Many blessings.

Thanks for sharing this information!

Thank you for sharing all these valuable information about farming. I can use your knowledge and incorporated in to future farm.

Can’t understand why people would be against selling some of your herd. Why else would you raise beef? We need every able bodied person in this country to start thinking small (as in small local farms) if we are going to turn this country around. We have decimated our food supply, relying on corporate farms and big pharma. Your work is appreciated. Thank you…

Josh, your doing awesome, keep up the great work, My kind of Farmer !!!👍👏💘

Dude, I’m so happy for you. The work your putting in is actually priceless when you think about what your doing for your land so every penny was earned. I think it might be useful to figure out how the cows are being appraised. Why one might be worth more then the other.

I love the transparency

Great work your doing here .. hope you end up making this a very profitable n successful operation while keeping it all natural .

Amen, bro. I’ve watched you work through “the hard things” and you still keep moving forward/ahead. I’ve also watched you “grow and learn”. Keep turning your nose to the grindstone.

Good morning, I am one of your follower and I enjoy watching you, I would like to make a comment about Ethiopia that you made a comment about soil and drought, the reality is we do have the best soil and weather. The problem about the drought was politics situation and war. Thank you.

need to get with local extention service get your soil tested see if it needs ag lime or maybe potash...that sage grass is a sign it needs a bit

Good video about the reality of profit farming. It’s hard, takes a long time and decision along the way should be for long term farm care

Stand on their own two feet 😂 Terry

Thanks!

I'm shocked at the prices you got , awesomeness.

Little victories as the singer Chris Knight would say. Keep up the good work josh

I can’t wait to purchase farm fresh beef from stony ridge farm. Been watching you for years

Josh is spot on - soil quality and health of the land is everything. It's also why most of the food in the US is so bad. It's mostly made by chemicals.

Great video Josh! Hope to meet you one day been following you since day one!

Wish this type of farming was the standard!! Love your videos! Keep them coming!

Awesome video

Best video I've seen from you.

This is so wild. I was just thing about doing some research on raising cattle on the land we are trying to buy this coming year. well maybe by end of year. Depending on the situation of the country. People are telling us to do the purchase now. But we are worried about getting into a mortgage upside down. But I digress. I was thinking about learning more about raising cattle and if it worth it or not. Then your video popped up. I wonder if this is a here's your sign moment. lol

One of my hs classmates raises cattle and has a setup like yours. He's doing the organic fashion also with no horomones, pesticides or herbicides. In addition to the grass fed cattle, he sells chickens raised the same way. Every time I see a bunch of blighted properties with overgrown grass, I think of how some goats could eat it down.

This year isn't a model year. With the shortage of cattle packers are contracting with feed lots at record prices. This will last for maybe a couple more months. After that who knows. I started a cattle operation 15 years ago and I've never understand why the cow calf farmer does the most work has the highest cost and risk while making the least money out of the 4 stages of beef production. Most profitable being the packer with the least amount of risk.

Sounds good, fella. There are some cracking sheep breeds here in the UK.

I enjoyed you video. Thanks for sharing information about your cattle sales that you really just didn’t have to do. I liked that. I believe that you did well on your livestock sale. Keep the videos coming please. One more thing what brand of pickup do you pull your aluminum gooseneck livestock trailer with and how does it perform pulling your trailer?

I soaked a 1 lb bag of plain lentils and left them to sprout. They sprouted so I bought another pound, rototilled an area about 12 ft square and put lentils on the ground. They grew thick and close to the ground and pods were starting so I tilled them in as green manure. It worked out pretty well as a nitrogen fixer with no fuss. These might work out for your soil and as a protein rich feed. Also, just to give you an idea fro an end user, we just bought a frozen box of grass fed beef on sale. We paid 100 dollars for 14 pounds, shipping included. That included ground beef, steaks, and a roast cut of some kind.

Its good to see that you are finding a sustainable buisness model. Are you considering showing your cattle at or with the FFA in order to get more brand exposure?

Good video

Your prices are great on the beef.

I had a Farside cartoon vision when you said the cows had to stand on their own 2 feet. Someone wanted a breeding bull or has a local customer in which to finish off some beef.

really happy for you! I was playing a hunch with that previous video comment. Do you get a different rate/price b/c they are on your place with your measures? Glad you got a hunk of change, and the summer season, rains, temps, humidity's, sun, work out to your favor! I'd be best off fishing every day! ha! You can actually vegetable garden here. Lots of Ranchers about here! The Governor is escared of them. With his 'Cows and Rocks' comment. That was shocking to me, I took the time, and looked it up. Wooooo! 🔴⚪🔵 that's my latest thing! ha

Cattle prices are up, inventories are the lowest they’ve been in roughly 70 years and after the fires in Texas they are likely to go up a little more. Those bulls will get castrated and be stocker calves on pasture until they are a few hundred pounds bigger then they will be in a feedlot.

My family buys a quarter mixed cow from a local farmer in south western Pennsylvania. He breeds Murray greys and I must say that we will never go back to big box grocery store for beef. We also want to start raising our own rabbits, chickens and st. Croix lamb when we move to our agricultural land

Good morning! I just want to "Ag-vocate" here a little bit so that folks without a farming background have an accurate and correct understanding... You do NOT get 1000lbs of meat from a 1400lb animal, regardless of whether it is finished on grass or grain. A 1400lb animal will have a hot carcass weight or hanging weight of around 750-800lbs at the time of slaughter and then only about 60% of that 800lb carcass will be taken home as edible cuts of meat, so only around 480lbs of total yield in "freezer beef" that a customer will pick up from the processor. Hopefully you can cover this in a subsequent vlog in order to educate your viewers and correct the perception that they will take home twice as much beef as what you just told them. Have a great day!

It seems a lot of viewer comments are based on one video rather than your content history. Income for a self employed person can come from different sources. I think you have managed very well to tap several sources. I do hope you continue to stay ahead of the debt while you find the balance of good income or savings sources.

We try work cattle as the vet recommends. Cow's vax and worm once a year. Calves get 2 vax 3 weeks apart plus worm. I read a 2024 study that wormed calves are heavier at weening.

That's the way to do it,

Markets good for sure👍🏻 4 weight steers bringing over $4 a lb in northern ca!!

I'm working on regenerating land that had only alfalfa and hey grown here for over 140 years! Using the Back to Eden plan where I've cover huge areas with tree trimmers' waste and manure spreading... The soil was so hard a pick axe would bounce off it... 5 years later, I can use my hands to dig in the soil that also is full of worms too! I run a small Chicken Ranch with free range egg layers and plan to greating expland over the coming years... The demand for my eggs is Off the Hook! :)

Glad it is paying off for you. Hear in Ohio there where some 700 pound calves that brought 3.30 per pound

Thanx for being Honest & Transparent ! - Earned a new Sub from Me

Great video. I have 217 acres, I understand it takes a lot to run a farms.

Congratulations on the first Profit

I would say you need to find out exactly why that 315 pound bull brought so much money. You need more of those!

Hi Josh, On a future video, can you talk about the cost of fuel, seed, limestone, repairs to upkeep the grass? You spent a lot more than hay to keep the animals fed. Thanks.

In the first example you mentioned, that cow is not just sitting in the pasture "earning interest" at no cost to you. It takes constant inputs of feed to keep that cow around that costs you money. You would only know your profit margin on an individual animal based on how much it cost you to purchase the animal plus the cost of feed per year for that individual animal, then comparing the total cost of ownership over time to its final sales price. If you only take purchase price into account when calculating your profit, and don't also take the cost of holding the animal on your farm into account as well (which, as you know, is not free), then you have no idea how much you made when you sold it, and you could be losing money on that animal. I would imagine you spent more than $150 in feed cost alone in order to keep that animal on your farm for two full years. If you're considering the sale of this one cow as a loss leader and making the real money off of the calves she produces while breaking even on the cows sales price, that's fine, but you should be more clear about your numbers in that case. It's a bit misleading to compare an animal that has an ongoing cost of ownership to something like a bank account that earns interest without you having to do anything.

We’ve always fed out calves to 700 pounds but with prices now we sell at 500 pounds

First year in the commercial Hay Business was 1000 rounds at $50,00 ea to a Hay broker... That was 6 years ago, We have progressed far beyond that today. in production, equipment, and diversity of sales.....

Have you considered selling , like in stocks, futures in beef buy now support feed and get beef later potentially you'll get recover more money in the mix but bypass slaughter packaging and that whole lot of stuff plus beef that you love to mature will get to be bigger & mature all allowing overarching goal and receive front end support they off haul beef and you avoid complications you are retrained by at present A win situation

Hey Josh thank you for the video woo

I know you've talked about processing your own beef at some point. Where can we check to see when that might happen and how to get on a list or whatever system you'll have set up for customer orders? I'm sure you'll have more customers than product 🙂Thanks!

Might check the buyer of that small bull. It may be heard building and was willing to pay a bit more.

Two things to keep in mind.....First, beef is/almost at an all time high depending on where you live. Secondly, at any auction house, a steer will bring 20-30% more for the same weight compared to a bull.

We buy farm raised cows ! The meat has so much more flavor !

In eastern Va. we take our heifers and steers around the 5-550 lb. mark. Seems to always bring the best price. Prices now are at an all time high but I give it a little bit longer and it will come back down. I also sell 1/4 1/2’s on about 5 cows a year for family and friends. There is definitely a quicker turn around on cow/calf operation. That’s what I’m growing towards. I sell at 6.50 a lb. out the door for beef, could probably get 7-7.50 but no more than that.

I am close to having boo sale some of my highlands , I have to pay 55 a bale for hay and 150 pounds of sweet feed a day , They eat better than me. I just haven't been able to pull the cord yet,