….I’m always amused at the number of people (from a political leader I know down to a well-known cattle consultant) who disparage profit.\u00a0 The harshest critics of profit tend to be those who produce nothing themselves and live off the profits of others.\u00a0 But I’ll save that for another post.<\/p>\n
I guess it’s why the consultants we hang onto (and convert to friends to save expenses) are those who don’t just talk…but do.<\/p>\n
My favorite quote on the subject has always been Dave Pratt’s:\u00a0 “If it’s not profitable, it’s not sustainable!”\u00a0 And we owe a lot to Dave Pratt’s “Ranching for Profit” education for his input into Thistle Hill.<\/p>\n
Another friend, Kit Pharo, is a believer in profit.\u00a0 In his latest newsletter he sums up the whole subject of profit this way:<\/p>\n
Profitable ranchers manage their grass in such a way that they are able to increases grass production by 50% to well over 200%.\u00a0\u00a0 This allows them to graze year-round \u2013 with more cows and with very few (if any) inputs.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Profitable ranchers work with nature \u2013 instead of against it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Profitable ranchers focus on pounds (and profit) per acre \u2013 instead of on pounds per calf.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Profitable ranchers know that the easiest money they will ever make is the money they DON’T spend (a penny saved is a penny earned).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Profitable ranchers know they are in the business of converting FREE Solar Energy into a high-quality food product \u2013 and when properly done, the cow will do nearly all of the work for them.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Profitable ranchers know they must produce low-maintenance cows that fit the environment \u2013 instead of artificially changing the environment (with high-priced inputs) to fit their cows.<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ….I’m always amused at the number of people (from a political leader I know down to a well-known cattle consultant) who disparage profit.\u00a0 The harshest critics of profit tend to be those who produce nothing themselves and live off the profits of others.\u00a0 But I’ll save that for another post. I guess it’s why the consultants we hang onto (and convert to friends to save expenses) are those who don’t just talk…but do. My favorite quote on the subject has always been Dave Pratt’s:\u00a0 “If it’s not profitable, it’s not sustainable!”\u00a0 And we owe a lot to Dave Pratt’s “Ranching for Profit” education for his input into Thistle Hill. Another friend, Kit Pharo, is a believer in profit.\u00a0 In his latest newsletter he sums up the whole subject of profit this way: Profitable ranchers manage their grass in such a way that they are able to increases grass production by 50% to well over 200%.\u00a0\u00a0 This allows them to graze year-round \u2013 with more cows and with very few (if any) inputs.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Profitable ranchers work with nature \u2013 instead of against it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Profitable ranchers focus on pounds (and profit) per acre \u2013 instead of on pounds per calf.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Profitable ranchers know that the easiest money they will ever make is the money they DON’T spend (a penny saved is a penny earned).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Profitable ranchers know they are in the business of converting FREE Solar Energy into a high-quality food product \u2013 and when properly done, the cow will do nearly all of the work for them.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Profitable ranchers know they must produce low-maintenance cows that fit the environment \u2013 instead of artificially changing the environment (with high-priced inputs) to fit their cows. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2321,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions\/2321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}