by KaiserJeep » Mon 03 Dec 2018, 14:02:52
You appear to be focussed on the quality of your soils, which long term is a good thing. You are also producing "grassfed" lamb, a luxury meat which is priced relatively high in the USA at least. You say you are finding more profit this way and I do not doubt it.
However you have also admitted that you were producing chicken feeds before, and now are producing premium lamb. My guess would be that the number of meat calories produced by your farm has declined, but the premium price paid for grassfed lamb more than makes up for that.
Thanks for the inputs, but I'm not sure your experiences directly relate to this thread. On a global basis, you may have gone in the exact opposite direction, producing less human food from a given acreage. That sort of change is only going to pay off in a country such as the USA where the citizens have disposable income they can choose to devote to tastier lamb versus new tech toys or fashionable clothes.
IOW, your business would fail in sub-Saharan Africa where people are already spending the majority of their incomes on food and are unable to acquire enough calories to live. I appreciate your inputs but they don't appear to be directly applicable to the thread topic. However your expertise would have been welcommed here in many other farm-related threads.
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