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Western Ontario | Correct, the cows have to be trained/learn how to eat snow. I have 2 spots that are ideal with fairly shallow water (not going to break through ice and drown) that slowly freezes up and usually the cows get lazy and stop walking to open water before it freezes but I’m also taking them hay once a week, they’re not getting moved through a grazing system. I think your strategy of maybe buying open cows at the seasonal low could work from a marketing strategy…..however….AJ must be pretty similar latitude as I am and summer planted oats/peas cover crop can produce a high volume of high protein feed but usually too washy to actually put weight on thin cattle….it goes right through them. We’ll occasionally bale and wrap some and works best in a mixer wagon with a bale of straw or corn stalks and some corn silage. Swath grazing in my climate would just be a disaster, our high humidity/ fall rainfall is so high and can get up to low 60’s even in December, everything would just rot. Might be able to make grazing corn work sometimes. | |
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Winter Grazing Operation Ideas
