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    The elk herd

    Several years ago, a place sold near me that was partially paid for by selling off a "Conservation Easement" to benefit wildlife. It can never have livestock on it but the hay ground may be cropped. The new owner was only interested in having his own personal hunting ground. The pastures are...
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    Interesting read

    To a large degree it IS happening! Grazing practices and range management changes are happening all over. Minimum tillage has greatly reduced soil loss and pulse crops are being planted on grain fields to build up the soil. Most of the negative articles about how unsustainable our...
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    Neither Pro-Rodeo Or Ranch Rodeo Talked About Much Here

    Back in the 60’s, we use to do all our cattle work a-horseback. Now us farm boys didn’t have any free time for rodeo or such. We went from calving season to planting crops and fencing, getting cows out to pasture then piling square bales of hay all summer. The rodeo team consisted of mostly...
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    The elk herd

    We will be likely be seeing herds like that pretty soon. We allow public hunting and have 2 or 3 elk taken off the place in a typical year. We have had fair hunting but have not felt over-run by elk. Rich folks bought up land in a "L" shape about 2 miles to the east and 4 to the south of us...
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    State of Ag Canada/US Alike

    In central Montana, hay prices have tripled but most ranchers only had about a quarter of a crop, grain farmers are seeing great prices but their crops were lousy too! Cattle prices have improved some but are not covering these increased costs. Most ranchers are selling down, some are selling...
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    No rain all summer and now this:

    These bales have 5 or 6 wraps but are still fragile! Sawdust is a pretty apt description! I have old, sod bound hay fields that I winter and calve on. I normally buy a semi load or two of wheat straw for bedding during storms. Yep, the places I bed requires a year or two for the grass to...
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    No rain all summer and now this:

    Yeah, It's round bales. The cows will be out in the pasture, but they will have to eat the straw or learn to live on snow banks! The wheat straw in this drought is so fine and chopped up that the bales explode if you try to tip them on end. These are good solid 1100 lb. net wrapped bales too...
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    No rain all summer and now this:

    Our local feed store has ordered in a tanker full from QLF Liquid Supplements. It supposedly contains the mossases, protein, mineral and vitamins needed to make straw a complete ration. We are splitting the load with another customer, each getting 2500 gallons. The straw that I've gotten is...
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    No rain all summer and now this:

    We are on the northern edge of the predicted storm. Still waiting for 600 tons of wheat straw to be delivered that might allow us to keep most of the cows another year. I may have to let the cows down to the hay fields where I had planned to stack the straw further complicating things. If the...
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