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Friend of mine's Pop owned a place in Ruidoso sp? A few years back we went out for a visit. The change of scenary from El Paso where we flew in, through the white sands missile range and into snow covered mountains was an absolute trip. Very beautiful and so different from our topography. I...

As an aside, I've often wondered why it's taken so long for a few smaller feeder/packer operations have never cropped up in the Southeast. Particularly vertically integrated operations. We're starting to see some of it develop here, just not on a large scale. Georgia/Florida/Alabama have a...

I don't doubt you Greybeard. In my part of the country where grass is generally plentiful and taken for granted...nearly all cattle get on a truck and go west. We are far too flippant about grass as a resource and all the attention is given to conditioning cattle to make the trip and not...

Burning is certainly an improvement above overgrazing and no grazing. But nothing is as good as bombing the ground with hooves and crap and then letting it recover for 8 months. Burning does uncover the seedbed, but it doesn't fix the nutrients like hard grazing, soil stirring, and rest.

It's a good thread backhoe because it brings about discussion for things that need to be talked about.

I agree with you that at this point it's far more efficient to finish cattle on grain because the infrastructure is there. Improved Corn & Soybean production practices are more streamlined, adopted, and understood than are grass production practices. One reason for this is the existing...

This is a good thread. I think that it's important that good discussion and sound science carry the day. Wouldn't that be a refreshing change. I don't believe we can say for certain whether there will or won't be feedlots in a 100 years, or for that matter how much or little beef people...

A couple observations: Grassfed beef or more appropriately termed, Grass "Finished" beef (because that's the differentiator and process you're substituting for) is a desirable option and a direction over the long haul. The critical point is that it is a long term process. That doesn't mean we...

Why not try backgrounding calves for gain on a fee per pound gained or carrying cows for someone else for a percentage of calves or a flat rate. Then you don't have to take an equity position.....or a position in the market for that matter.

My grandfather took an old non-cooperative "braymer" bull on a spirited jog around the pasture one time with a 2 inch thick logging chain necktie and 100hp Allis Chalmer serving as the sled dog. After the last victory lap he was excorted in the same fashion onto the trailer.