Pasture required

[Anonymous-0]

How many arcres of moderate pasture are required to feed one beef cow from spring to the end of fall? Thanks.

 

[Anonymous-0]

depends on lots of stuff,like rainfall,size of beef, heat,kinds of soil..... i had an old horse in 4 acre lot and he didn;t keep it down at all.
have heard that some states say two acres min. to an animal.

 

[Anonymous-0]

If you could give us your general location mabe someone close to your area will reply. Location has a lot to do with amount and type of grasses. Brian

 

[Anonymous-0]

You gotts tell us where. Here it takes 15 acres of good or 20 acres of poor.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Here in the Willamette Valley I have two steers on four acres. They can't keep up with it. I'll need to mow/chop it in the fall.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Sorry,
Got 20 acres that I want to round out some feeders. Have red & white clover, timothy, fescue, and some brome grass. Gonna add 1 or 2 goats in the pasture to help with the weeds.
Thanks,
Joe G.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Thanks for the reply Rob,
I have 20 acres of pasture with timothy, red & whie clover, fescue, and some brome grass that I want to put some feeder beef in. Might add a goat or two to help with the weeds.
Regards,
Joe Roberts

 

[Anonymous-0]

Hi Brian,
Thanks for the reply. I'm in the mountains of central Pennsysvania. Have 20 acres of pasture that I'm not using and would like to raise out some feeder beef. Pasture has timothy, red & white clover, fescue, and some brome grass and some weeds. Plan on putting a few goats in to help with the weeds.
Have a Nice Day,
Joe Roberts

 

[Anonymous-0]

On GOOD native grass in Kansas we can put a cow calf pair on about 4 to 4.5 acres.

 

[Anonymous-0]

coup,
Thanks for the reply. Have a 20 acre field that I used to take hay off of. Want to put in some beef feeders. I'm in the mountains of central Pennsysvania where the rain hasn't been normal but I think adequate. Will put some Herfords and a few of my neighbors beefalo in it. A few goats for weed control.
Regards,
Joe Roberts

 

[NEsota]

Do goats prefer weeds to grasses?

 

[Wyokid]

In SE Wyoming 20 acres will keep 2 horses about 3 months with a little supplemental hay thrown in.

 

[1936]

Question-How many rattle snaker per acre in your area? Was in Reading area some years back and spent most of my time looking where I stepped.

 

[Anonymous-0]

IF you are going to give them grain to fatten also I would think you could easily run 8 head of feeder cattle on that I live in NE Missouri And run 1 cow/calf pair to 1.5 acres and get by until usually about October A lot of this depends on management style soil condition and weather if I get a drought like we had last year I gotta move sooner I put a lot of manure on the pasture and then some commercial nitrogen and I rotate between paddocks give the grass a little chance to catch up.

Clint

 

[Dairy Farmer in WI]

How much acerage do you have? i say if you have 4 or 5 acres, split it all up just in case we have a dry summer again. my dad does that with all his pasture, when the pasture is chewed down he closes that one off and opens another. he never runs outta pasture and never has to feed a single bale of hay during the summer. i do the same with my heifers and milkers and only feed like 3 round bales in a summer
my 2 cents
DF in WI