Southern IA | hinfarm - 8/9/2025 11:20
We’ve got 50 pairs, two bulls and 4-5 heifers on 40 acres total of grass and this for the summer.
We had about 12 days of hay feeding between the first and second grass rotation.
I don’t know what the math looks like but it probably beats growing corn by some margin at the moment
yep, it makes a lot of sense for some crop rotation, cattle at high values, building the land, everything that enterprising farmers should be doing as good agrarian stewards, then uncle sugar shows up and takes the acres on your 578 and starts paying mfp's, erps, sdrps and everyother kind of payment that they can come up with to promote monoculture and capital intensive farming that reward a few big corporations and the payments start going back multiple years, and you start looking at what the opportunity cost was to be trying to make some extra income by raising hay and livestock and the ambition level starts deteriorating fast as you realize you paid for the privilege to work and never really got ahead of the guys that work 3 weeks in the spring and 3 weeks in the fall and go golfing all summer with the input suppliers. |
Cropland grazing
