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| Our neighbors to the north are all confinement. They got sick and tired of trying to rent grass from people’s grandkids out of state. Buying ground is tough here with little rainfall to boot. They seem to do all right in confinement. The trick they have found is to grow the feed yourself and not buy it because you’re at everyone’s mercy then. Seems like the old days of buying corn Silage at 7x The price of corn is gone so growing it cuts that fight out of the equation. I really like these people there probably in their late 70s and do everything themselves for the most part. I think they’re primarily feeding corn Silage and alfalfa to pregnant cows and their maintenance ration is something like corn silage and millet hay/triticale. Calves are typically fed out of the bunk with corn, alfalfa and something else I think.
Iv always looked up to them. nice folks that took a bad situation and made the best out of it and it paid off. Good for them!
Edited by A&M 8/13/2025 18:55
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Confinement cows
