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How many can get through a winter with only pasture grazing
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<blockquote data-quote="movin&#039; on" data-source="post: 324203" data-attributes="member: 5626"><p>Attaboy's to all you and your friends. If your friend was on the tractor one time to plant things for winter grazing and then parked the tractor, he is a cowman and not a farmer! Those cows will get every last bit of good out of what he planted. The rotational grazing may take a bit of extra labor, but not near as much as all the labor involved with hay. I've been doing a little thinking about what I said last night with regards to "most parts of the country" and "nearly everyone". I probably threw out too big a net with those two statements. There are so places that simply get too much snow to graze anything in the winter. There are those folks that simply do not have the resources available to them to do it any other way than to feed hay in the winter. I guess what I was trying to say was.....MOST people, I believe could benefit by reducing their stocking rates, planting winter grazing, stockpiling hay, etc., etc. I think less cows (just enough to utilize all your rescources) can often be more profitable. It never ceases to amaze me when I drive by muddy, nasty lots in the winter where guys are feeding hay,rolling out straw bales and just begging for scours and who knows what else, when they farm (or ranch) thousands of acres that are sitting empty all winter long!!!!!!! It just doesn't add up to me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="movin' on, post: 324203, member: 5626"] Attaboy's to all you and your friends. If your friend was on the tractor one time to plant things for winter grazing and then parked the tractor, he is a cowman and not a farmer! Those cows will get every last bit of good out of what he planted. The rotational grazing may take a bit of extra labor, but not near as much as all the labor involved with hay. I've been doing a little thinking about what I said last night with regards to "most parts of the country" and "nearly everyone". I probably threw out too big a net with those two statements. There are so places that simply get too much snow to graze anything in the winter. There are those folks that simply do not have the resources available to them to do it any other way than to feed hay in the winter. I guess what I was trying to say was.....MOST people, I believe could benefit by reducing their stocking rates, planting winter grazing, stockpiling hay, etc., etc. I think less cows (just enough to utilize all your rescources) can often be more profitable. It never ceases to amaze me when I drive by muddy, nasty lots in the winter where guys are feeding hay,rolling out straw bales and just begging for scours and who knows what else, when they farm (or ranch) thousands of acres that are sitting empty all winter long!!!!!!! It just doesn't add up to me. [/QUOTE]
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