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Fontanelle, IA | When calves and cows are high priced at the top of the cattle cycle, we all want to build confinement sheds and treat beef cattle like dairy cattle and run feed wagons and choppers and tractors a few hours a day choring. We love fixed “overhead” costs.
When prices of calves and cows trend down, those same daily 365 chores become more of a grind and paying for the overhead we purchased during the “good” times at the cattle top become harder…. Not insurmountable…. Just harder. It’s at the bottom we realize that God’s gift of a beef cow ruminant was to use her own 4 feet and harvest her own feed with minimal human assistance daily.
Beef cattle were never intended to be welfare queens | |
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Cattle Operation in Row Crop Country - Ideas
