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Do you mean Roundup Ready when you say RR? For cows? IS it for the cows to eat on the stalk? Why would you want to use more expensive genetically modified corn for cows like that ?

That's what I'm talking about Susie! If you're going to do a great job producing meat, sell it as meat! Don't look to the "market" for prices, look at the grocery store, at least. Here the only grass fed beef I can get at the grocery store is $6 per lbs, do you think I'm going to charge less...

Our co-op sells Kelp but only because a friend of ours that feeds it to his cattle and puts it in his chicken feed requested it. When we came in to buy it they got all excited, telling us we were only the second customers that had ever asked for it. lol I've heard that it doesn't have alot of...

I don't have an answer for you but I can tell you that Joel Salatin feeds hay and diverse pastures only and his mineral is 50/50 kelp and salt. I just bought a 55lb bag of kelp meal and it was about $40. The salt is cheap. I honestly don't how the cost compares to other loose minerals but I like...

Okay sounds like some of you should keep feeding grain.

Grass finishing takes more TIME but shouldn't it take less inputs and therefore be similar in cost? At least, it wouldn't be the same as finishing a steer on grain for longer.

I don't have time to read this particular article, but I've read alot like it and I believe that the fact that MOST foods in the supermarket have corn products in them has alot to do with obesity. It's not only that it's there that is causing the FAT it's that the government subsidies make is...

I've had some VERY good steaks from www.americangrassfedbeef.com (they are local to me) and we're in the process of raising some of our own now. I've heard of people throwing out a whole animal though, because they thought it smelled like "wild onions". I'm guessing they had alot of wild onions...

CARancher, All these replies are making it pretty clear to me that you can't just do what everyone else is doing and make money at it. If you have land then you need to make money off grazing, you don't have some supper-excellent animals to sell seed stock from, so the grass is your capital...

I'm sorry but that's a pretty stupid comment, in my opinion. If you're direct marketing lowline, dexter, mini hereford, or "commercial" small cattle and making a premium on their beef at farmers markets, over the internet, or an on farm store, you're just playing? How is producing beef and...

You're probably right, if the other option is making one from a piece of rope or twine. If you're looking at the little "kits" for bungy gates then the slinky gates look to be about 1 or 2 dollars cheaper. 20 bucks compared to 22.

The "spring gates" work really well. We've got them in two places. They are hot when hooked up too. We are using the Gallagher Spring Gates that look like a slinky. I can imagine them getting smashed some day but ours are doing great now. I have seen someone use a smashed up one on a semi...

This looks like a situation where a small (smaller than Dexters) miniature steer would be the answer to your desires. A small Dexter is still pretty scary when they are going after each other, much less going after you. A Holstein on the other hand is a HUGE animal that will be way too much for...