stocker/backgrounding feed yard

[jdc40]

I sent a email earlier today but I thought I would try this also.
I am very interested in starting a feed yard that deals with steers weighing in the 600# range feeding for 90 days and sale them weighing in the 800# range. I live in Kansas and was wondering would this be a profitable business for me to start up.

[mysticokra]

There are several books at both The Stockman Grass Farmer and AcresUSA that address your question.

Try Alan Nation's "Pasture Profits with Stocker Cattle" (See http://www.acresusa.com/books/closeu...=11&pcid=2

and Greg Judy's "No Risk Ranching" see http://www.stockmangrassfarmer.com/sgf/bk_norisk.html