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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 924283" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>Very little farming (as in tilling the soil) left in my area. We grow two things well; grass and trees. It is a terrible place to winter cows if you don't have them under a roof and on concrete. Rain nearly every day and temperatures in the upper 30's are tough on cows. I only winter 20-30 cows. In the late winter/early spring I pick up another 20-30 older broken mouth cows primarily from the high desert country. I baby them through to grass and then those old girls have never seen grass like this. In the fall the old cows and all the calves go to town. The cows will have gained enough that I generally get as much for them as a kill cow as I paid for them as a bred cow in the spring. And one thing about those old girls and where they come from, they didn't get to live that long by raising poor calves. My Feb/March calves average (steers and heifers) a little over 600 pounds when I sell the first week of October. No creep. Nothing but momma's milk and grass. </p><p>I buy all my hay mainly because I can buy it right down the road for almost the same price as making it myself. And I don't have to spend my summer making hay.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 924283, member: 498"] Very little farming (as in tilling the soil) left in my area. We grow two things well; grass and trees. It is a terrible place to winter cows if you don't have them under a roof and on concrete. Rain nearly every day and temperatures in the upper 30's are tough on cows. I only winter 20-30 cows. In the late winter/early spring I pick up another 20-30 older broken mouth cows primarily from the high desert country. I baby them through to grass and then those old girls have never seen grass like this. In the fall the old cows and all the calves go to town. The cows will have gained enough that I generally get as much for them as a kill cow as I paid for them as a bred cow in the spring. And one thing about those old girls and where they come from, they didn't get to live that long by raising poor calves. My Feb/March calves average (steers and heifers) a little over 600 pounds when I sell the first week of October. No creep. Nothing but momma's milk and grass. I buy all my hay mainly because I can buy it right down the road for almost the same price as making it myself. And I don't have to spend my summer making hay. [/QUOTE]
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