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North Central Illinois | Here, with good mixed grass/legume pasture and rotational grazing with 2 acres per pair we can put up hay for winter feeding too.
Your market price on lambs is awful optimistic, but I'm averaging close to 2 lambs per ewe at a little heavier market weight so probably similar gross.
Right now I'm mainly growing grain crops because I don't have the labor to scale up sheep and organic premiums are making me a decent living. If one of my kids wants a way in we can scale up the sheep side for additional revenue.
As others mentioned, where livestock really shine is a mixed system with grain production. I lamb in April and rotationally grazed through the summer. Once the first of August gets here, they're on cover crop following wheat harvest and once corn is harvested I wean lambs and put the ewes on corn stalks. I fed hay 3 days so far this winter. Usually don't start in earnest until mid February. | |
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Are we doing it wrong?
