The elk are encroaching here too. The stackyard approach is one way to go, but it adds a huge amount of cost to an operation like ours that swath grazes into March/April, and bale grazes, etc. I can't imagine the added cost of starting a tractor every day to feed cows, or feeding cows in close because of where the feed stack is. I think our time is too valuable to be running around with a feed wagon.
I suspect Elk would do a real number on the guys around here who are corn grazing all winter too. It's too bad the government wouldn't get serious about a wildlife damages insurance program that even targeted 50% of the real costs involved.
