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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 1002801" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>The thing that some people lose sight of is the difference in managment is in many ways dictated by environemnt. We manage our herd much different here in MO then we did in the eastern Sierra foothills. There we ran a pair per 300 acres and we would only see some of the cows once a month. Would have liked to do it more but the terrain and area made it impossible. When we pulled them off to move them to the home place it would take a bunchof us 2 weeks solid of riding to gather them and get them down to the loading chutes. Anything over 95% of what we had turned out was considered a good deal. Some had died, some we wouldn;t find until the next year. On the other side of the Seirra a friend of ours had 150k plus acres that he owned. Each year we would take one area, usually governed by geographical limits and work that area to round up. Took 4 years to work the entire ranch. Wasn;t unusual to find 7-8 year old bulls that had been missed a couple of roundups when we would work an area. In MO with just 240 acres broken into 15-30 acre grazing areas we see the cows every day even if it's just a drive through. On the other farm here its' broken into 2 80 acre parcels. Since the cows tend to group up into smaller groups and scatter we don;t see all of them every day even if we check every day.</p><p>The point that I've belabored is situations are different for the same producer even with 2 farms only 12 miles apart there are different management practices.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 1002801, member: 34"] The thing that some people lose sight of is the difference in managment is in many ways dictated by environemnt. We manage our herd much different here in MO then we did in the eastern Sierra foothills. There we ran a pair per 300 acres and we would only see some of the cows once a month. Would have liked to do it more but the terrain and area made it impossible. When we pulled them off to move them to the home place it would take a bunchof us 2 weeks solid of riding to gather them and get them down to the loading chutes. Anything over 95% of what we had turned out was considered a good deal. Some had died, some we wouldn;t find until the next year. On the other side of the Seirra a friend of ours had 150k plus acres that he owned. Each year we would take one area, usually governed by geographical limits and work that area to round up. Took 4 years to work the entire ranch. Wasn;t unusual to find 7-8 year old bulls that had been missed a couple of roundups when we would work an area. In MO with just 240 acres broken into 15-30 acre grazing areas we see the cows every day even if it's just a drive through. On the other farm here its' broken into 2 80 acre parcels. Since the cows tend to group up into smaller groups and scatter we don;t see all of them every day even if we check every day. The point that I've belabored is situations are different for the same producer even with 2 farms only 12 miles apart there are different management practices. [/QUOTE]
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