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Saronville NE | Lots of ways to look at it.
Management is key. What works really well is drylot pairs but have a special gate made where just calves go out on a small patch of grass or feed even if only couple acres. Helps immensely with health.
But what you gsin is no high cash rent checks for grass, no trucking costs, so also interest savings from that.
Then plant the rye on irrigsted ground. Chop it, then corn again. In my experience we have still been griwing 200+ bu corn and getting q2 ton rye silage. So if do the math between the 2 it would take 290-300+ bu corn to make the sane money. So cheap rye feed, but still have corn for cashflow.
So your saving $150-200 a head on cow enterprise and making an extra $150-200 income on riw crop also over regular corn only row crop.
So basically this way is making money on both ends. Vs tye conventional way of doing things. Need less acres for ciws or row crop because you are maximizing what you have.
Also better utilizing your overhead of equipment you already have, you have the equipment to feed cows couple months a yr now you hust use it more like 75% of year. But its already there so utilize it.
Just few keys from what we have learned doing this. We custom drylot some cows also fir neighbors and they are finfing the same why they keep coming back, because they are saving thst $150-200 too. | |
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So where to expand?
