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<blockquote data-quote="TerryMiller" data-source="post: 3491996" data-attributes="member: 7900"><p>Something not mentioned in other comments, other than the one that mentioned "pasture management." If one's property is strictly grassland, then one will have to rotate the cattle one has from one pasture to another. In some areas, and these numbers will vary depending on what is on the land, it sometimes takes a lot of acres to "feed a cow." Out in the Panhandle, it might be 30 acres per cow, downstate, it could be 15 acres.</p><p></p><p>When we were in the farm/ranch business, we summered the cattle mostly on grass (talking cow/calf pairs here). In the fall and winter, we bought steer and heifers and wintered them on growing wheat or milo or corn stubble, all of which required us to build temporary fencing all around the land to be grazed.</p><p></p><p>In other words, if you are limited in acres, you are limited in how many cow critters you can have.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TerryMiller, post: 3491996, member: 7900"] Something not mentioned in other comments, other than the one that mentioned "pasture management." If one's property is strictly grassland, then one will have to rotate the cattle one has from one pasture to another. In some areas, and these numbers will vary depending on what is on the land, it sometimes takes a lot of acres to "feed a cow." Out in the Panhandle, it might be 30 acres per cow, downstate, it could be 15 acres. When we were in the farm/ranch business, we summered the cattle mostly on grass (talking cow/calf pairs here). In the fall and winter, we bought steer and heifers and wintered them on growing wheat or milo or corn stubble, all of which required us to build temporary fencing all around the land to be grazed. In other words, if you are limited in acres, you are limited in how many cow critters you can have. [/QUOTE]
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