Anyone else find growing your own grain isn’t actually…
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Anyone else find growing your own grain isn’t actually cheaper?
i started the season thinking id stretch our grocery budget by putting in extra corn and oats. ran the numbers on seed, fencing upgrades, time, and it still looked cheaper than what the feed store charges. now the summer drought is here and im staring at water bills plus the cost of soil amendments that werent in the original math. the feed prices havent moved much so maybe the gap never closes. curious if anyone here has hit the point where they just buy the grain and keep the beds smaller.
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i started the season thinking id stretch our grocery budget by putting in extra corn and oats. ran the numbers on seed, fencing upgrades, time, and it still looked cheaper than what the feed store charges. now the summer drought is here and im staring at water bills plus the cost of soil amendments that werent in the original math. the feed prices havent moved much so maybe the gap never closes. curious if anyone here has hit the point where they just buy the grain and keep the beds smaller.
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Yeah, the cheaper-than-the-feed-store math usually forgets the dry year. Seed and fencing can look like a win in spring, then drought stacks water bills on soil amendments and the grocery stretch is gone. Corn and oats are rough for that because the yield slips right when those extra costs hit. Between the water and the amendments, which one actually wrecked the original numbers?
