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Southern Indiana | It seems all the rage is about lowering feed costs for wintering cows and I can understand that and am all for it. I read these articles about stockpiling your grass in the fall and letting them graze all winter. That might be fine if you've got 50 cows on 500 acres but that's not my operation. What I find even crazier is mowing the hay and just leave it in the windrows and let the cows root through it and grub out what they can. Just read an article in Prairie Farmer about a Wyoming ranch that does this. Around here hay left in the windrow rots underneath and kills what it is laying on. Maybe this would work in extremely cold climates, but that means snow and making the cows dig through the snow to find something to eat I think borders on animal cruelty. Is there something here I'm not seeing or what? Maybe it's what has kept me poor, but I bale lots of hay, good hay, and carry it to them. | |
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Windrows?
