montana cattle farm
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mnmtranching
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On the range land they stock something like 16 pair on a section.
Depends, but that's about average. Some sections won't support a family of Jack Rabbits, but some places the grass grows real good.
Depends, but that's about average. Some sections won't support a family of Jack Rabbits, but some places the grass grows real good.
Susie David
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Haven't been up there in a long time but I do remember wheat as the crop of choice. Pretty sparce in the forage dept. DMc
mnmtranching
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Susie David":188uu185 said:
Wheat is big
But cattle is by far the #1 crop in Montana. 8)Oldtimer
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Gary c":1qipxm0n said:
Depends upon the area-- I usually call it around 20 acres per pair to run 6-7 months...Some good creekbottom/river bottom pastures goes as low as 2-3 acres per cow-- in some of the old Missouri breaks bentonite hills and shale hills and hardpan country, its more than 70 acres per cow.....
Lots of variation in this country-- in our county alone we can have 4 different climates all at the same time-- shortsleeves in the south, while a snowstorm is going on in the north...But our county is twice the size of the state of Delaware also ;-)
