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<blockquote data-quote="Stocker Steve" data-source="post: 1460308" data-attributes="member: 1715"><p>Intensive pasture management and 2X stocking rates can pay off - - but the periods of high beef prices are so fleeting that it is not practical for most. Another approach is a pasture/low input grain rotation that builds soil fertility and avoids some of the inputs specialized grain guys have to buy. The boys at the Dickinson ND university farm are pushing this.</p><p></p><p>The University of Kentucky has some excellent stockpiling spreadsheets to look at stocking rate/hay needed trade offs for a beef only operation. They even try to capture labor costs. :shock: By changing cow size and weaning weights for each segment of your herd you can get better insight on profitability. You may find that the poorest group of cows in your string are not making you any money...</p><p></p><p>If you like cattle, improved pasture, and some time off - - then I think stockering is a good end game. Yearlings go in August, the pastures rests, and you buy back after hunting is over. :idea:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stocker Steve, post: 1460308, member: 1715"] Intensive pasture management and 2X stocking rates can pay off - - but the periods of high beef prices are so fleeting that it is not practical for most. Another approach is a pasture/low input grain rotation that builds soil fertility and avoids some of the inputs specialized grain guys have to buy. The boys at the Dickinson ND university farm are pushing this. The University of Kentucky has some excellent stockpiling spreadsheets to look at stocking rate/hay needed trade offs for a beef only operation. They even try to capture labor costs. :shock: By changing cow size and weaning weights for each segment of your herd you can get better insight on profitability. You may find that the poorest group of cows in your string are not making you any money... If you like cattle, improved pasture, and some time off - - then I think stockering is a good end game. Yearlings go in August, the pastures rests, and you buy back after hunting is over. :idea: [/QUOTE]
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