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<blockquote data-quote="SRBeef" data-source="post: 788826" data-attributes="member: 7509"><p>Very interesting article. Thanks for the post.</p><p></p><p>Two items jump out at me. One is:</p><p></p><p>" A 1,500-pound cow needs 50 per cent more forage per day than a 1,000-pound cow" </p><p></p><p>which implies a 1500 lb cow needs 25% more than a more realistic (imho) 1200 lb cow, Or a 1900 lb cow needs approximately 58% more than a 1200 lb cow, both lactating and producing essentially identical 205 day calves.</p><p></p><p>The other is the typical academic discussion of how many "tons of forage" are in an acre.</p><p></p><p>Personally I am not real good at understanding or estimating tons per acre when I look at some grass in a pasture. </p><p></p><p>I can tell the difference between 10" tall grass and 4" tall grass. And I am starting to be able to correlate the grass I see with the number of days a number of cows can be on it and take 10" grass down to 4". I think cow-days is a much more understandable and calculateable/useful measure of grass than tons.</p><p></p><p>But useful info. Thanks. Jim</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRBeef, post: 788826, member: 7509"] Very interesting article. Thanks for the post. Two items jump out at me. One is: " A 1,500-pound cow needs 50 per cent more forage per day than a 1,000-pound cow" which implies a 1500 lb cow needs 25% more than a more realistic (imho) 1200 lb cow, Or a 1900 lb cow needs approximately 58% more than a 1200 lb cow, both lactating and producing essentially identical 205 day calves. The other is the typical academic discussion of how many "tons of forage" are in an acre. Personally I am not real good at understanding or estimating tons per acre when I look at some grass in a pasture. I can tell the difference between 10" tall grass and 4" tall grass. And I am starting to be able to correlate the grass I see with the number of days a number of cows can be on it and take 10" grass down to 4". I think cow-days is a much more understandable and calculateable/useful measure of grass than tons. But useful info. Thanks. Jim [/QUOTE]
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