How To Make More Grass Equal More Beef

摘要

Fall calve, overstock, and rotate pasture paddocks to fully utilize extra grass. As you move your pastures toward a system of management intensive grazing, you're going to grow more forage—maybe even twice as much. That begs the question: How do youmanage your herd to best utilize that extra grass to give you a payoff in more pounds of beef sold? Justin Sexten and Rob Kallenbach, forage specialists at the University of Missouri-Columbia, say most cattle producers have three choices: Expand the cowherd. Buy in stocker calves. Keep your homegrown calves longer.