So working on figuring out use on my 5 acres here in east OK. Need to get dirt tested at extension office etc, but should be decent, used to be farmland.

Some thoughts I was a little lost on. Trying to decide if it's better to have back 2-3 acres as grazing land for a beef cow/goats vs keep them penned into an acre and try to grow grass out to cut for them. I've seen a few people claim that you actually can do better just buying an auction cow, finishing it a bit a few weeks, then slaughtering more cost effectively than raising a calf these days? Trying to decide if I do a beef cow or two weighed against all my chickens and wanted to do some dairy goats. (not sure I can bring myself to eat a bunch of goat)

Still have a full time job until collapse of society, so part of me has wondered in my front few acres, if it might be better to plant a orchard of mixed fruit and nut tree's as possibly being lower maintenance than trying to do multiple acres of crops.