Farms: How Joel Salatin Nets 60k/year on 20 Acres of Rented Land!
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In this clip, Joel Salatin shows how to set up portable infrastructure for a 20 acre beyond-organic hog operation that nets $60k/year on rented land! Learn about how to set up the paddocks, feed, water and rotation. For 18 more hours of Joel's priceless wit and wisdom, check out the Salatin Semester: http://salatinsemester.com/
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Based on Canadian agriculture, this is not feasible. Total profit per pig is only 5-15 dollars at an operation of this size. Land value is also way higher here, rentals are at 240/acre in most areas now with decent forage. Also, there's the whole cost of raising and breeding the pigs, which would need its own facility, personnel and vaccinations. If this is a feedlot type setup which is how it sounds, it isn't very well setup for finishing hogs quickly as both pastured hogs and beef add weight much slower than in a facility. My two cents, if it works for him keep on keepin on man
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What type of grass is used? I'm in SC looking to use my 10 acres a bit more intelligently. Thank you.
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lol @ all the naysayers who obviously know nothing of Joel or permaculture. Get with the times, folks; It's a new age in agriculture.
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I had to give up on this after 5 mins. He is so tedious to try and listen to, I was about to slash my wrists.
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Every body here is trying to figure out where his figures are coming from I believe even tho he is talking pigs maybe he is making pig compost or something else off of pigs not just pigs themselves then u could see figures adding up.for example compost,lard,ect. Just a thought remember everything on a farm can just about be repurposed
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90% of what you said is NOT true ..I call BS
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"oh, i forgot we already had the water supply!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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Ridiculous......my headache has a headache............I'd rather rob a bank.
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Has anybody Googled wholesale hog prices? I found a range of 70 t0 98 cents a pound. When I was in school, ideal slaughter weight was around 150 to 175 pounds. That is about $170 per hog. How did he get $900 per pig?
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$2000.00 for fence for 20 acres with 20 paddocks 20 gates. Please tell me where you buy your electric fencing supplies!!!
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and now...I got a bridge to sell you....
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Daggone, this old boy might be a good pig farmer, but he is mighty hard to listen to! He canno' teach.
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how come the video stopped when audience had the chance to ask questions?
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What a crock of shyte is what I think.
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The figures are all over the place.
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Any way you look at it most people don't have the initial amount of money to get started.
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was this place covered or not
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I'm 4 minutes in and wondering why he didn't have a print out to project onto the screen. Does he really spend like 10 minutes drawing paddocks, repeating himself about scrubland plants and stuff, when he could show a print and be talking real substance instead of "oops made a mistake. oops. the gate is here. oops."? I mean, I don't know this guy from adam, but I can't watch this--let alone 18 hours of it.
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Just don't get it. He talks about the $270k "gross" vs. $60k "net". But the $270k "gross" seems to be expenses and the "net" seems to be income. Something doesn't jive here. Is he just a fast talker that thinks his audience isn't intelligent enough to catch on or am I missing something? Help me understand, please. What are the investment costs? What are the expenses? What are the "net" profits? Anyone?