Nowdays,I try to keep something green and growing 12 months of the year. Trying to limit hay feeding and give the cows better, cheaper produced feed. I work away from home for extended periods of time and my Wife cannot do all that she once could do. The last few years I have built several mobile hay feeders with roofs that hold from 2 to 5 rolls and I can put out 6 weeks worth of hay at a time. I will never quit making some hay as long as I have stock because you have to have a back up plan but when I retire I will definitely expand the winter crops I am growing now. This is nothing new in my part of the country as the USDA and most Southern State extension services pushed pasture based livestock enterprises hard from WWII until the early seventies when fence row to fence row cash crops took back over. I hear people say you don't make enough money off cow/calf operations but I don't think I ever lost a dollar on a cow that lived long enough to have 2 calves. When my Wife and I were raisng four children and my salary was about 1/4 of what it is now those calves were our savings account, school clothes money, christmas account money, vacation money, you name it. I can't begin to put a value on the work ethic and life lessons my children learned in those hay fields and caring for livestock.
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