THIS RUGGED ERA REQUIRES YOU TO BUY SMART AND TO GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR CROP INPUTS. HERE ARE SOME WAYS TO DO IT. When Michael Boehlje was 8 years old, he accompanied his dad to the local sale barn to buy feeder cattle. "He had a little black book that he'd look at when he was bidding on cattle," says the Purdue University agricultural economist. "Sometimes he would buy cattle and sometimes he would not. As an 8-year-old kid, that didn't seem very successful to me. So on the way home, i asked him what was in his little black book. He told me that every day before he went to the cattle auction, he calculated what it would cost him to feed the cattle and how much he could pay for them."
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