nart is really new
nart is really new
They may be stocked at a cow to 40 acres or double that in some of the worst ground
What about pretty beasts and topping the sale ring? ?And there are also ranchers achieving stocking rates double and triple that on a like for like basis. They’re doing this by utilising area specific profit focused genetics, profit focused grazing management and profit focused business management.
What about pretty beasts and topping the sale ring? ?
I have, my point is that many are struggling so not all of their theories are fool proof.Watch some of the “Ranching for profit” videos on YouTube.
I have, my point is that many are struggling so not all of their theories are fool proof.
There is good and bad there, just like here.
Nothing new.
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I keep seeing mention of rotational grazing, (which I have practiced since I first kept stock) interestingly we've been reading through records from our local Ag Society and there was an advisory piece saying stock shouldn't hear the church bells twice in the same field, this was from 1912, yet some people talk about rotational grazing like it's some new concept.
Small cows and low slaughter weights on little fat cattle, the UK was full of them 100 years ago, again nothing new
I keep seeing mention of rotational grazing, (which I have practiced since I first kept stock) interestingly we've been reading through records from our local Ag Society and there was an advisory piece saying stock shouldn't hear the church bells twice in the same field, this was from 1912, yet some people talk about rotational grazing like it's some new concept.
Sold 40 ninec to ten month old stores yesterday. 450-500kg. Averaged over £1000. Will get exact weights and prices.
Thats the best 40. Registered 409 calves last year. Got another 70 to go.
Thats charolais calves out of saler cows.
all I am trying to get across, things are changing, we all need to look at what we do, for the future of our industry. the country side would look horrible without livestock.I agree, nothing is foolproof. You think you have some thing fool proof, someone will just make a better fool....
But I’d suggest those ranchers who follow the “Ranching for Profit” concepts will be in a better position than those who focus on individual weaning weights, set stocking and feeding hay.
I’m not suggesting any of this is new. But I think there’s a lot of people keeping livestock, UK and US, who don’t rotationally graze and keep unsuitable livestock by throwing inputs at them.
you have 2 £1200 cont stores through the ring, 600 kg each, £2 kilo, topped the sale, fantastic. or you could have put 3, 500kg stores through at £1.75 kg, or £875, so £2400, or £2625, based on kg/beef /acre,What about pretty beasts and topping the sale ring? ?
They will come to about the same as will eat less but weigh less but you should have less dead calves which you cannot sell,weight produced per acre x sale price per kgThe bullocks will be but it is the hfrs that let the AA down,you need that premium on the stots to make up for the hfrs.
you have 2 £1200 cont stores through the ring, 600 kg each, £2 kilo, topped the sale, fantastic. or you could have put 3, 500kg stores through at £1.75 kg, or £875, so £2400, or £2625, based on kg/beef /acre,
maths, 2, 750kg cows, or 3, 500kg cows, same food, costs etc, same total weight of cows, bit simplistic, but shows what I mean, the question you have to ask your selves, which is better for me ? We all love to see our names in the mkt report, why, vanity?, or good business ?
I see very little,(if anything) that is revolutionary in any of their videos.I agree, nothing is foolproof. You think you have some thing fool proof, someone will just make a better fool....
But I’d suggest those ranchers who follow the “Ranching for Profit” concepts will be in a better position than those who focus on individual weaning weights, set stocking and feeding hay.
I’m not suggesting any of this is new. But I think there’s a lot of people keeping livestock, UK and US, who don’t rotationally graze and keep unsuitable livestock by throwing inputs at them.
Good growing cattle don't have to be difficult calving.They will come to about the same as will eat less but weigh less but you should have less dead calves which you cannot sell,weight produced per acre x sale price per kg
You can argue it either way remember that there is now a top line payment linked to weight
Showing my age by mixing metric and imperial
just used an example, the same equation works for lowland, in the dairy industries, we get paid in kg of fat and protein, and measured in kg/ha produced, the higher the amount, the more we get paid. The suckle farmer should be talking about kg beef/ha. If you think the example was to small, as in hill bred, increase the weight of your suckle cow, and store.Your talking about hill cattle there.
Smaller cows which produce store calves to sell to the boys with better ground to fatten them.
There are some good clips on there @unlacedgecko I fell asleep watching them last night.And there are also ranchers achieving stocking rates double and triple that on a like for like basis. They’re doing this by utilising area specific profit focused genetics, profit focused grazing management and profit focused business management.
I see very little,(if anything) that is revolutionary in any of their videos.
Feed as little concentrate and conserved forage as possible, use grazing to its full potential, keep cows that suit your system and sell what the market wants. Easy!
Out of curiosity, where would sheep fit into that ranchers beef system?
Steers, yes lots of creep and concentrates since they've been weaned.creep fed ? steers or heifers ?