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NE Iowa | I've been down the renting pasture game many times. Renting a lot of different pastures over the years. On paper renting pasture is a lot cheaper than owning it. What I've found renting pastures:
1. Good water, good fences, and a useable corral - pick any 2 of the 3 because rented pastures will never have them all.
2. The only thing worse than fixing fence is fxing fence that you do not own.
Personally, I would avoid the silage for beef cows. By the time you hire the chopping, bagging, and buy the bag you have a large bill on top of what it took to rent the ground and produce the corn. Grazing has the lowest harvest cost. Silage is the highest harvest / processing cost by far. Baling hay and feeding it is somewhere in between. | |
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Am I Crazy: Converting 200bpa corn ground to rotational grazing?
