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<blockquote data-quote="linbul" data-source="post: 758893" data-attributes="member: 10356"><p>Jim,</p><p>It's a pleasure to follow the story of your farm and the experiments you are making. I've learned many interesting things from you personally. Have you considered writing a blog? It would benefit your marketing too.</p><p>Now about the corn grazing. You mentioned concerns about the weight and the switching from milk directly to corn. If there is enough pasture on your site, why not adjust the calving season to the late fall, so you could have the steers grazed grass for several months before turning them on corn grazing? I believe in this way steers could gain some more weight and their taste would develop greatly.</p><p>About the tenderness - it may be an outcome from the corn <u>grazing</u>, compared to corn <u>feeding</u> the steers are getting in the feedlots in the usual case. Here in Europe most of the beef farms are "confined", with<u> limited movement </u>of the cattle, just like in the dairy farms. There is a noticeable difference in tenderness between such "confined" meat and the traditionally grazing cattle, both getting similar feed.</p><p>Have a good luck. :tiphat:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="linbul, post: 758893, member: 10356"] Jim, It's a pleasure to follow the story of your farm and the experiments you are making. I've learned many interesting things from you personally. Have you considered writing a blog? It would benefit your marketing too. Now about the corn grazing. You mentioned concerns about the weight and the switching from milk directly to corn. If there is enough pasture on your site, why not adjust the calving season to the late fall, so you could have the steers grazed grass for several months before turning them on corn grazing? I believe in this way steers could gain some more weight and their taste would develop greatly. About the tenderness - it may be an outcome from the corn [u]grazing[/u], compared to corn [u]feeding[/u] the steers are getting in the feedlots in the usual case. Here in Europe most of the beef farms are "confined", with[u] limited movement [/u]of the cattle, just like in the dairy farms. There is a noticeable difference in tenderness between such "confined" meat and the traditionally grazing cattle, both getting similar feed. Have a good luck. :tiphat: [/QUOTE]
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