Within miles of any part of the Ozarks things can be drastically different. Within the same 15 acre pasture I have 3 different soil types that grow different amounts of forage. I'm saying that to let you know that each individual place is different, in some cases very different. When we get normal rainfall we run roughly 1 pair per 5 acres, but that includes cutting winter hay and then grazing the regrowth over most of the winter. We got caught in the last drought and cut down from a pair per 2 acres. The neighbor runs roughly 1 pair per 3 acres and feeds the hay during the winter that she cuts from her own place. But she has some pretty good bottom (or what passes for bottom in this area) and most of ours is ridge and sidehill.
Land prices are starting to go nuts, 2k per acre for marginal pasture and timber, a few areas run around 1500 an acre. 6 years ago good improved pasture ran a grand and timber was 450-600.
dun