IluvABbeef
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Nothing wrong with having a bunch of steers out on pasture. It sure minimizes costs of keeping them in a drylot and having to feed them every day. When we had steers we'd set them out to pasture for 3 to 4 months, and before we found the advantage of silage we fed them grain everyday to every other day, just so we'd have them trained to the bucket to make them easier to handle and to work with. I personally think you won't loose out on income by starting with a few steers, especially if you are going to use them for grazing. Grazing is THE cheapest way to feed them critters. I think that having steers to help keep the pasture down over summer while working on starting your cow-calf herd may be a good way to go, mostly because you can have maybe a little extra money to make off of the stockers after you sell them. JMHO, though.