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Deal or no deal part 2: moving forward
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<blockquote data-quote="JRGidaho`" data-source="post: 723247" data-attributes="member: 13410"><p>grubbie,</p><p></p><p>We ran ccattle in Missouri for 20+ years before moving to Idaho six years ago. It was in MO where we learned to graze year-around and eliminated making or feeding hay in our operation. It was a lot easier to do there. We were in 45-day calving season on spring grass. If I had stayed in MO, we would have moved to fall calving. In the 23 years on that farm we used N-fertilizer on three occasions, each time on less than 25% of our total pastrue acres. We did use lime, P, K, S, and B, but I view those as long term investments since those nutrients tend to stay on your property. Our annual fertilzer cost was less than $5/acre. We also ran a custom graze operation to balance out forage supply and demand.</p><p></p><p>In Idaho we just run a seasonal deal as part of a larger ranching operation. Generally we have 300 to 500 pairs up here(6000 ft) April into January, then the cows go down to the lower ranch (5200 ft) until they start bring pairs up in April. We graze here until the grass is gone. This year, they will leave about Jan 5. If we stockpiled more grass, there is no reason we couldn't graze year-around. We don't get much snow (6-8" annual precip) and the wind doesn't blow much up here in these valleys. Down on the Snake or in SE Idaho it gets a lot snowier and colder.</p><p></p><p>There are several guys in the next valley who graze year-around. It's largely a matter of how you stock the property. They run combination cow and yearling operations.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JRGidaho`, post: 723247, member: 13410"] grubbie, We ran ccattle in Missouri for 20+ years before moving to Idaho six years ago. It was in MO where we learned to graze year-around and eliminated making or feeding hay in our operation. It was a lot easier to do there. We were in 45-day calving season on spring grass. If I had stayed in MO, we would have moved to fall calving. In the 23 years on that farm we used N-fertilizer on three occasions, each time on less than 25% of our total pastrue acres. We did use lime, P, K, S, and B, but I view those as long term investments since those nutrients tend to stay on your property. Our annual fertilzer cost was less than $5/acre. We also ran a custom graze operation to balance out forage supply and demand. In Idaho we just run a seasonal deal as part of a larger ranching operation. Generally we have 300 to 500 pairs up here(6000 ft) April into January, then the cows go down to the lower ranch (5200 ft) until they start bring pairs up in April. We graze here until the grass is gone. This year, they will leave about Jan 5. If we stockpiled more grass, there is no reason we couldn't graze year-around. We don't get much snow (6-8" annual precip) and the wind doesn't blow much up here in these valleys. Down on the Snake or in SE Idaho it gets a lot snowier and colder. There are several guys in the next valley who graze year-around. It's largely a matter of how you stock the property. They run combination cow and yearling operations. [/QUOTE]
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