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<blockquote data-quote="Arnold Ziffle" data-source="post: 35264" data-attributes="member: 43"><p>I guess I'm with Texan on this one. The calves would waste a lot of that thick haygrazer unless you divided it into small paddocks so as to move them in and out in a 2 or 3 day period. But haygrazer generally does make good regrowth so I'd still say to look into getting somebody to bale it either for $$ or for shares and then possibly put a few calves in. It is surprising to me how small a field can be and yet someone is willing to cut and bale in, at least in my neck of the woods (in ordinary times, not now when they are desperately trying to get caught up after all the rain). Maybe that's not the case in the panhandle, where the acreages are typically very large, aren't they?</p><p></p><p>In addition, prices for your stocker calves would be sky high right now. You could probably put some significant weight on them with all that good forage, but what if the big train wreck happens before fall? Or even a modest train wreck? I'm at times overly conservative, but I guess my 'nads are a little too small for me to go out and buy stockers at current prices even if I had the forage.</p><p></p><p>Have you looked into letting somebody else stock his calves on the place for a fee per acre, per AU or per pound gained, etc.?</p><p></p><p>But whatever you do it needs to be done pretty soon, since it is already starting to head out and your stem to leaf ratio is going to be increasing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arnold Ziffle, post: 35264, member: 43"] I guess I'm with Texan on this one. The calves would waste a lot of that thick haygrazer unless you divided it into small paddocks so as to move them in and out in a 2 or 3 day period. But haygrazer generally does make good regrowth so I'd still say to look into getting somebody to bale it either for $$ or for shares and then possibly put a few calves in. It is surprising to me how small a field can be and yet someone is willing to cut and bale in, at least in my neck of the woods (in ordinary times, not now when they are desperately trying to get caught up after all the rain). Maybe that's not the case in the panhandle, where the acreages are typically very large, aren't they? In addition, prices for your stocker calves would be sky high right now. You could probably put some significant weight on them with all that good forage, but what if the big train wreck happens before fall? Or even a modest train wreck? I'm at times overly conservative, but I guess my 'nads are a little too small for me to go out and buy stockers at current prices even if I had the forage. Have you looked into letting somebody else stock his calves on the place for a fee per acre, per AU or per pound gained, etc.? But whatever you do it needs to be done pretty soon, since it is already starting to head out and your stem to leaf ratio is going to be increasing. [/QUOTE]
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