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Does more pounds per acre make up for being docked at the sale barn for small frame size?
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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Reynolds" data-source="post: 1824392" data-attributes="member: 43196"><p>To explain this from the opposite direction, an acre of ground can only produce so many lbs of forage. (there ARE ways to change this, but not with the number of animals on the pasture). These lbs. of forage can be 'translated' into AUMs (Animal Unit Months) of feed. Often an Animal Unit (AU) is thought of as a single animal, it is not. An AU is 1,000lbs of live animal weight. So, changing from fewer animals that are larger to more animals that are smaller does not change the number of AUs that are, or can be, grazed on a said pasture.</p><p></p><p>FYI.- AUMs do not really have a defined accepted value in lbs as the quantity of feed consumed by an AU is somewhat variable, but a value of 790lbs can be calculated for this quantity and should be used as a general rule. I use 790# for static AUMs given in vegetation production values in the Web Soil Survey available on line which shows forage production based on soil type.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark Reynolds, post: 1824392, member: 43196"] To explain this from the opposite direction, an acre of ground can only produce so many lbs of forage. (there ARE ways to change this, but not with the number of animals on the pasture). These lbs. of forage can be 'translated' into AUMs (Animal Unit Months) of feed. Often an Animal Unit (AU) is thought of as a single animal, it is not. An AU is 1,000lbs of live animal weight. So, changing from fewer animals that are larger to more animals that are smaller does not change the number of AUs that are, or can be, grazed on a said pasture. FYI.- AUMs do not really have a defined accepted value in lbs as the quantity of feed consumed by an AU is somewhat variable, but a value of 790lbs can be calculated for this quantity and should be used as a general rule. I use 790# for static AUMs given in vegetation production values in the Web Soil Survey available on line which shows forage production based on soil type. [/QUOTE]
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