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What is a sustainable pasture rental rate and type of arrangement? Is it per pair per day, grasser per day, lb of gain or $ per acre or per season? Assume renter and landlord both want a long term relationship and both want to make some money. Thank you for your thoughts and experiences. For a...

Imo, you can think about manure in two parts. First is the nutrients that are plant available in the year of application. (incorporating or moisture shortly after application reduces some nutrient loss) The second is the effect on the soil structure, improving tilth and moisture holding capacity...

Here is how I get 20% utilization, my thought process maybe flawed so i want to share it to add to the discussion. I am a rookie rancher. Denominator or 100% utilization is my average hay yield put up in early mid july. Let's say 3000 lbs/acre on long term yr avg. Numerator: i assume my cows...

I have paddocks that are currently in crested wheat/ brome & alf and I want to use them to further extend the grazing season. It would appear to me that its "best" to bale graze more rather than knock out the mix and convert some to cereal swath grazing? How about swath grazing the mix vs bale...

I have the ranch separated into a number of grazing cells with 4 strand Barbed wire. I now want to break those cells into 160 acre paddocks with interior permanent fencing. I most likely will use temp fencing to divide up those 160 acre paddocks to smaller temporary paddocks as we move forward...

Welcome Hillrider> I am a newbie to this board and have had so much well intentioned and helpful advise. I would be interested in hearing more about your weekly bale feeding plans vs the daily that has been done forever. In my mind there are trade offs of feed losses, diesel fuel/ iron wear...

There is no easy way i know of, their common names of which there can be several regional common names for the same plant, bear little clues as to the latin binomial name. Other than Canada & USA, farmers and ranchers use the latin names when describing plants.

we feed with two bale processors and there is very little waste. In fact they will eat some of the lower quality or older hay if processed that would be left if unrolled with a deck or tractor. We field feed 400 cows in one bunch and 2 and 3 year old cows in another field. Both are within a 1.5...