GOPALitics

[Guest guest]

I must confess being a temple president once. I even belonged to the Temple

President's conference on COM. I don't know if I like the idea of placing

blame on the temple presidents for cash flow problems that may not have

originated with them--or that they may have been powerless to prevent.

 

The heart of the matter is whether or not we can make it worth it for the

temple presidents to have cows. If cows are wealth, then why does one need

wealth to take care of cows? Cows are wealth, and so is land.

 

What's the exact formula? Let's see some numbers on a spreadsheet. I started

one recently and could only get so far because I don't know all the numbers. I

had 4 tons of dung/year/cow = 8,000 lbs. of dung/year/cow. Radha Krishna told

me that the product of composting cow dung with refuse is seven times larger

than the amount of cow dung. So the total amount of compost per year is 56,000

pounds, or roughly 2,000 25# bags of compost.

 

Now we've got land and cows.If you can get $1/bag, wouldn't that be enough

($2000/year) to run a decent cow protection program? If 2/3 of that is burned

as fuel (also suggested by Radha Krishna), that would leave over 600 bags of

compost ($600), and fuel so that we don't have to a) cut our trees down, b)

support petroleum companies.

 

Any of you simple cowherds know how to use a spreadsheet? How many factors

does this hinge on?

 

1. Price of land/acre

2. Value of compost and/or selling price

3. Cost of labor (& how many cows per cowherd)

4. Cost of milk per gallon

5. Savings in transportation costs (carts), could include hiring the cart out

with low-wage workers.

 

I guess the constants are amount of dung/year, amount of feed/year, medicine

costs, blankets, and barn construction)

 

Jai Balarama!