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<blockquote data-quote="RDFF" data-source="post: 1662823" data-attributes="member: 39018"><p>Greg is really a great presenter, and tries hard to teach how he keeps his cost of overhead to a minimum. One thing about his operation though... if you've ever looked up his place on Google Earth, you'll notice that he's in "hill country" with lots of wooded land... not the "grain country" that I'm located in, for sure. There's lots of "hunting acres", and wooded pasture ground, etc., all around him... he's not having to compete nearly as aggressively with crop land for pasture ground. And one more... right now he's probably carrying more animals than he ever has... something close to 400 head... but do you recall how many actual ACRES he's running them on? Last I knew, it was like 1600. So that's 4 acres per animal (and alot of those, maybe close to half, are calves). So his actual annual stocking density isn't all that high. And THAT allows him the flexibility to have those extended grazing intervals. I realize that maybe half of that ground is woods... but that would still put him at something like 3 acres per C/c pair. And he's not in a "drought area"....</p><p></p><p>Don't want to put down anything he's doing there though... he's a great manager, and knows what he's doing, and I wish I could say I do as good a job as he is!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RDFF, post: 1662823, member: 39018"] Greg is really a great presenter, and tries hard to teach how he keeps his cost of overhead to a minimum. One thing about his operation though... if you've ever looked up his place on Google Earth, you'll notice that he's in "hill country" with lots of wooded land... not the "grain country" that I'm located in, for sure. There's lots of "hunting acres", and wooded pasture ground, etc., all around him... he's not having to compete nearly as aggressively with crop land for pasture ground. And one more... right now he's probably carrying more animals than he ever has... something close to 400 head... but do you recall how many actual ACRES he's running them on? Last I knew, it was like 1600. So that's 4 acres per animal (and alot of those, maybe close to half, are calves). So his actual annual stocking density isn't all that high. And THAT allows him the flexibility to have those extended grazing intervals. I realize that maybe half of that ground is woods... but that would still put him at something like 3 acres per C/c pair. And he's not in a "drought area".... Don't want to put down anything he's doing there though... he's a great manager, and knows what he's doing, and I wish I could say I do as good a job as he is! [/QUOTE]
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