Z&J Cattle
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We have a small cow/calf operation and plan to keep it at around 20 cows for the forseeable future. We have 70 acres. We have asked around to local farmers and they say that we should be able to run one cow per two acres if we take decent care of the grass (which we will of course). We want to wean our calves and background them ourselves. We are going to fence off a small pasture close to the working facilities that will be strictly devoted to this. At any given time, we shouldn't have more than 10-12 calves on it. My question is, given this information, what kind of acerage would you folks recommend setting aside for this? I want to set aside as much as we need, but not more than necessary, because obviously this takes grass away from the momma cows. We just want to keep the calves to 600lbs. or so and ship them. Any advice is greatly appreciated as always.
Zach
Zach