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NE Iowa | They have access to 10 acres of fields all winter and have a 20' feeder wagon that we place out there when weather permits (frozen). The rest of the farms are in 100' wide fully contoured strips with alfalfa fields mixed in. Hard to get cows to eat stalk fields without destroying the alfalfa. The contour strips are a necessity in the very steep hills but prevent fencing off just the corn fields. So we bale a lot of stalks and cows had access to a stalk bales all winter. They eat half and lay on the rest. Probably still eat 85% hay all winter. I'm probably only 100 miles from you Jim and our operations are vastly different. Not saying one way is better then the other but we are both just playing the cards we're dealt. About the only thing similar is we are both engineers at our day job and raise cows because we want to not because we have to.
Edited by 17821x 3/28/2010 16:36
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Pics of our Cattle this Morning
