Land prices have increased over the past 50 years, so much that in most cases it is hard to pencil out a livestock operation with a land credit to buy the land and livestock.

This is disheartening to many aspiring livestock producers who want to have a life in the country regenerating the land and producing the healthiest animal products possible at the same time.

We now have the knowledge to do this at a very low cost but we need to have control over a piece of land as the total grazing program gives results in the short and the long term.

So, what to do if we do not have the money to buy a piece of land? Not everybody inherits land and most of us did not have that luxury. We can be creative and the first thing we need to learn is how to do numbers correctly before embarking on a new venture; if it does not work on paper it will not work on the ground.

Join me in this week’s podcast to know if leasing land for cattle is worth it.