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<blockquote data-quote="RDFF" data-source="post: 1797861" data-attributes="member: 39018"><p>There are crop farmers here now that are getting interested in cover cropping/soil health, and they're "eager" to have animals run on their land "in the off season"... between crops, i.e.: on the corn stalks, or better still, on a cover crop following beans in particular. The main issues there are, if it's not fenced and has no water, they're typically not willing to install it (they expect the cattle guy to do that... IF they're willing to have a fence around it at all... some might want you to use a single hot wire, and then remove it again after the cattle leave), they're not willing in most cases to tend the cattle at all (i.e.: move them regularly, etc.), so if it's a long distance from your home base, that can't work out. And they're not willing to deal with putting water on, or providing any "portable/temporary water" solutions. So it gets pretty limiting, unless they've bought into the idea pretty strongly.</p><p></p><p>The other issue is, if it's "cover crop" following a cash crop up here, there's not enough season left once that crop comes off to get any amount of cover yield... If one has a small grain crop, it's possible. Corn stalks can work "OK" for late calving cows... and if they spread a cover as interseeded like in August, that gives you a small amount of green out there for 'em... but it's still pretty limited.</p><p></p><p>I'm finding that I'm better off grazing all growing season long (using permanent, perennial species... minimal seeding costs overall... but high that first year, I spend over $100/a when I seed down, all NT frost seeded), and then custom feeding cattle on the land all through the winter, with purchased in hay. Build that soil biology.... and of course, THAT was what Greg was doing to get out of debt on a minimal budget too. The custom feeding paid his bills, till he could build a herd of his own.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RDFF, post: 1797861, member: 39018"] There are crop farmers here now that are getting interested in cover cropping/soil health, and they're "eager" to have animals run on their land "in the off season"... between crops, i.e.: on the corn stalks, or better still, on a cover crop following beans in particular. The main issues there are, if it's not fenced and has no water, they're typically not willing to install it (they expect the cattle guy to do that... IF they're willing to have a fence around it at all... some might want you to use a single hot wire, and then remove it again after the cattle leave), they're not willing in most cases to tend the cattle at all (i.e.: move them regularly, etc.), so if it's a long distance from your home base, that can't work out. And they're not willing to deal with putting water on, or providing any "portable/temporary water" solutions. So it gets pretty limiting, unless they've bought into the idea pretty strongly. The other issue is, if it's "cover crop" following a cash crop up here, there's not enough season left once that crop comes off to get any amount of cover yield... If one has a small grain crop, it's possible. Corn stalks can work "OK" for late calving cows... and if they spread a cover as interseeded like in August, that gives you a small amount of green out there for 'em... but it's still pretty limited. I'm finding that I'm better off grazing all growing season long (using permanent, perennial species... minimal seeding costs overall... but high that first year, I spend over $100/a when I seed down, all NT frost seeded), and then custom feeding cattle on the land all through the winter, with purchased in hay. Build that soil biology.... and of course, THAT was what Greg was doing to get out of debt on a minimal budget too. The custom feeding paid his bills, till he could build a herd of his own. [/QUOTE]
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