re: The Wall and the Land it will take to build it.

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Ok, thanks for the clarification... but if a section of land only supports 2 to 3 head of cattle it is shitty land... what does that kind of land go for an acre in todays market? Or by section and I’ll do the math..

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compared to central Texas or the deep South, yes the land is pretty crappy. But the value per acre (or section) is comparably lower. I’ve never actually run the numbers, but I suspect the number of head per dollar of land value ends up being about the same. Otherwise, ranchers in West Texas could not compete with ranchers in East Texas on price, etc.

Again, I’m not anywhere near a Calculator, paper or anything else, so these numbers are entirely hypothetical. But if the cost to run one cow on goo land in East Central Texas is one cow per $7500 worth of land, that might only be an acre and a half or 2 acres. In far west Texas, that might be a quarter or half a section, but the value of the land is so much lower that it evens out per head