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Farm Income Diversification and Building Structures

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Nobody told me this about buying land, starting a farm or homesteading!

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What happens here

The speaker explains his decision to raise cattle, stating that smaller row crop farms (less than 150 acres) often lead to burnout and financial loss. He notes that it took six years to see the first year of profit from his cattle operation. He further emphasizes the concept of 'farm income diversification', identifying 'social media as the new row crop'. He encourages sharing knowledge and experiences online to generate income, highlighting his own success with his YouTube channel. The video then transitions to showing the construction of a large metal building (shed/shop) with a concrete foundation, steel frame, and timber-frame porch, serving as a key operational structure for the farm.

Goal: This step discusses strategic income generation from the farm, focusing on livestock (cattle) and leveraging online platforms for additional income, as well as building essential operational structures.

Tools and materials

  • Boom lifts/Scissor lifts
  • Cattle (Angus)
  • Concrete leveling tools
  • Concrete mixer truck
  • Concrete saw
  • Drill/Screwdriver
  • Hammer/Mallet
  • Power trowel
  • Steel building components
  • Timber (structural)
  • Cattle feed/hay N/A
  • Concrete mix N/A
  • Steel panels N/A

What they say

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where we can start a farm or where we can uh start a homestead operation just like this ask around Word of Mouth word of mouth's how we bought this word of mouth is how we bought this and Word of Mouth Is How We bought that it all will fall in your lap if you've got your nose out there sniffing for it okay you'll find it guys so all this being said we didn't have very much land that was cleared out here on the Stony Ridge Farm we cut timber so we bought the land for 2, acre in 1,800 an acre here sold that land paid this off paid that off and started working our butts off toward clearing land and fencing cut timber on the land this is decent Timber this is valuable Timber okay this is chips wood chips okay so there's value in every bit of Timber is just about how much value you have there $400 per acre on average is not valuable Timber but producing high quality beef is valuable so guys I hope this video has really kind of set your sales in the right direction you can do it it's not unobtainable and again this is brought to you from a comment that someone left uh they asked if I could do a video on start to finish how we did this how we bought land so we bought the land we started clearing the land clear cutting we sold some Timber we started pushing off the land we started building our fences we started deciding what kind of animals that we were going to raise and we set our sales in the right direction what is the world's dumbest animal the world's dumbest animal is the squirrel and let me tell you why world's dumbest animal is a squirrel because when a squirrel is faced with a problem like being out in the middle of the road and a car is coming they go set your sales in a direction for Success now I will tell you this guys if you're looking at buying a piece of property and you're looking to start a homestead and you can talk to a camera and you think you can teach other people this is the ultimate farm income diversification social media is the new row crop for farm income diversification you might buy honeybees you might raise some squash or you might start a social media channel like this and teach other folks how to do the things that you're doing and teach them when you screw up guys I hope this has helped you a lot on

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