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<blockquote data-quote="Wild Cattle" data-source="post: 800074" data-attributes="member: 7475"><p>The country between Sweetwater and Roby varies a bunch. River breaks full of ceder to dryland farm country. that country is a little tougher than north of Abilene. AU around there I don't know for sure but I would guess for yearlings, 6 acres/ head for 6 months.</p><p></p><p>I am running cows and yearlings in Briscoe and Motley counties 100 miles SE of Amarillo and 100 miles NE of Lubbock, 120 miles NW of Abilene. Those are the closest towns of any size. Some of our country neighbors the Matador Ranch and we are only 60 miles NW of the 6666's and Pitchfork. Common practice in this area, for stockers, is running on native or improved pasture in the spring/summer and on wheat pasture in the winter. I can run 1 steer/2 acres on dryland wheat or native/improved pastures for 120 days if we have average rainfall.</p><p></p><p>This is short grass country and it doesn't take much rain to produce very strong grass. Great country for yearlings. All the major feedlots are in the panhandle and if you are delivering truck load lots you can sell direct. With-in 100 miles of me there is a sale barn selling cattle 5 days a week and prices are pretty good in this area because of the close proximity of the feedyards and large stocker operations.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wild Cattle, post: 800074, member: 7475"] The country between Sweetwater and Roby varies a bunch. River breaks full of ceder to dryland farm country. that country is a little tougher than north of Abilene. AU around there I don't know for sure but I would guess for yearlings, 6 acres/ head for 6 months. I am running cows and yearlings in Briscoe and Motley counties 100 miles SE of Amarillo and 100 miles NE of Lubbock, 120 miles NW of Abilene. Those are the closest towns of any size. Some of our country neighbors the Matador Ranch and we are only 60 miles NW of the 6666's and Pitchfork. Common practice in this area, for stockers, is running on native or improved pasture in the spring/summer and on wheat pasture in the winter. I can run 1 steer/2 acres on dryland wheat or native/improved pastures for 120 days if we have average rainfall. This is short grass country and it doesn't take much rain to produce very strong grass. Great country for yearlings. All the major feedlots are in the panhandle and if you are delivering truck load lots you can sell direct. With-in 100 miles of me there is a sale barn selling cattle 5 days a week and prices are pretty good in this area because of the close proximity of the feedyards and large stocker operations. [/QUOTE]
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