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<blockquote data-quote="Hawk" data-source="post: 56554" data-attributes="member: 114"><p>The agricultural economics department at Texas A&M University did a study a year or two ago as to how many cows a family needed in order to maintain a reasonable lifestyle. There are many variables involved, of course, and they took a middle of the road approach, so consider this an average, at best. They concluded that 500 grown cows were the minimum needed for a commercial cow-calf operation to support the average farm family in an acceptable manner. In my area of East Texas, we can run a pair on 1-1/2 acres of improved coastal bermuda pasture. When figuring your stocking rate, be sure to consider non-grazing areas such as woods, lakes, streams, roads, buildings etc, and do not include these in your acreage total.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hawk, post: 56554, member: 114"] The agricultural economics department at Texas A&M University did a study a year or two ago as to how many cows a family needed in order to maintain a reasonable lifestyle. There are many variables involved, of course, and they took a middle of the road approach, so consider this an average, at best. They concluded that 500 grown cows were the minimum needed for a commercial cow-calf operation to support the average farm family in an acceptable manner. In my area of East Texas, we can run a pair on 1-1/2 acres of improved coastal bermuda pasture. When figuring your stocking rate, be sure to consider non-grazing areas such as woods, lakes, streams, roads, buildings etc, and do not include these in your acreage total. [/QUOTE]
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