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SW Central Illinois | Didn’t want to steal jaybird thread, different approach. Does this work?
For us in central IL, fly on or drill cereal rye into corn stalks about Labor Day. If corn harvest is early.
Buy 500 lb feeder calves.
Graze on corn stalks and rye for approx 50-70 days. (Nov-dec)
Will they gain 1.5 lbs a day (could run 2 acres per calf)?
Would have rye and 200 bu corn residue to graze.
End of the year gather and sell 600 pounders.
Can you net $200/ head after:
Fence
Hauling water
Commission
Death loss
I’ll go further for example. Say I’ve got 40 acres, that could do this on, 3 sides are half ass fenced, and could be temp fenced, portable corral, etc,
500 lbs x 20 head x $5/lb=$50,000
Graze for that period will they be at
600 lbs x 20 head x $5/ lb =$60,000
( market drops 10 percent, or death loss= $55,000)
Am I heavy on gain? Using 20 head on 40 acres would be stocked almost half rate if we get a rain and rye in early? | |
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Add on to Jaybird from below about stocker/backgrounder diff approach
