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<blockquote data-quote="RDFF" data-source="post: 1796769" data-attributes="member: 39018"><p>You have to keep in mind that he's not talking about just the "grass acres"... he's got alot of woods in that area too. The woods don't yield hardly anything for "grazing/feeding" potential... or at least a whole lot less. I grew up in the bluff uplands of SE MN along the Mississippi River... about half of our pasture was in "woods", the rest native grasses/forbes. The cattle ran in the woods for sure, but they didn't get much for feed value from them. Last I heard him tell, he was at about 1600 acres TOTAL.</p><p></p><p>I don't know, but I'd say that Greg's probably about the same... 1/2 woods/1/2 grassland. Mostly "native"... he doesn't really believe much in seeding in... but DOES count on his purchased hay to add seed to the seedbank. I think he's running more like 300 pairs, potentially more??? That said, I also have kinda had the opinion that he's not stretching his AU/acre too far overall (context???... what will the land support...). I generally will figure I can safely do about 1.25 acres per AU here, on converted cropland. And remember when calculating AU's, he's running smaller framed South Polls... so his "# of head" should be higher than most of us.</p><p></p><p>Here's an image of his place. That largest generally open area kind of surrounding his place, including the triangle up top across the road measures out to 116 acres... so that gives you some perspective (it just happens that that's where I was able to see some cattle on the image too). He's covering alot of woods.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]28296[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RDFF, post: 1796769, member: 39018"] You have to keep in mind that he's not talking about just the "grass acres"... he's got alot of woods in that area too. The woods don't yield hardly anything for "grazing/feeding" potential... or at least a whole lot less. I grew up in the bluff uplands of SE MN along the Mississippi River... about half of our pasture was in "woods", the rest native grasses/forbes. The cattle ran in the woods for sure, but they didn't get much for feed value from them. Last I heard him tell, he was at about 1600 acres TOTAL. I don't know, but I'd say that Greg's probably about the same... 1/2 woods/1/2 grassland. Mostly "native"... he doesn't really believe much in seeding in... but DOES count on his purchased hay to add seed to the seedbank. I think he's running more like 300 pairs, potentially more??? That said, I also have kinda had the opinion that he's not stretching his AU/acre too far overall (context???... what will the land support...). I generally will figure I can safely do about 1.25 acres per AU here, on converted cropland. And remember when calculating AU's, he's running smaller framed South Polls... so his "# of head" should be higher than most of us. Here's an image of his place. That largest generally open area kind of surrounding his place, including the triangle up top across the road measures out to 116 acres... so that gives you some perspective (it just happens that that's where I was able to see some cattle on the image too). He's covering alot of woods. [ATTACH type="full" alt="1680123599304.png"]28296[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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