HemiMark
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Any body making money raising grass feed cows?
My brother didn't do too bad at it. His daughter didn't hit puberty until 16 eating that clean beef, too.
maybe you can snag a few heffers or some beefalo around closin time
Not a big fan of grass fed. Gives the meat a dairy cow taste. Give me a Black Angus which has been grain fed and you've got some good beef. With grain prices as high as they are we will all be eating desert grazed beef. If you have the land to raise a few head go for it. The market price will be high because of the drought. Hopefully no drought next year. tmm
My Dad and I tried that back around 92 or so. Ran 70 head on 40 acres. Was not to long before they turned it all to dirt. Had to buy loads of hay to feed them after long. My neighbors seen all that hay and would buy some here and there. Sold the cows and lost money but seen that hay sales were keeping things going. So in 94 we opened a feed store.
But thats here in SoCal were we don't get much rain. Only have 3 horses out there now and still have to feed them a few months out of the year.
I know PA gets a lot of rain and every thing stays nice and green but I don't know if 12 is enough for even one cow. They can put down over 100lb of hay every 4 days or so.