Posted by RodInNS on January 29, 2010 at 20:57:02 from (216.118.158.123):
In Reply to: Grazing- Who does it? posted by Don-Wi on January 29, 2010 at 19:44:29:
Hmmmm.... When the MiG prophets come up with a way to make 3.9 or better milk on grass instead of 3.1 or 3.3... mabey I'll be more of a believer.
We always pastured in summer. After I came home from college, we started doing MiG. One thing is for certain... it's Management intensive for sure.
You need to be carefull listening to these guys... I notice that ~most~ of them don't milk cows. Most of them don't own ~any~ meaningfull amount of equipment. Most gloss over the winter related feeding problems of swath grazing or whatever gospel they follow on that end... or simply suggest you buy your winter feed, etc. That etc.... carries a lot of variables.
After 10 years of this, I'm at the point where I'm just as happy to spend another day and a half chopping the summer's feed and another day and a half hauling manure. You can maintain your routine. You can maintain your production and I think when you run the numbers you'll find that you're further ahead now than if you had to spend thousands building fence, then labor on top of more labor to move fence twice a day, every damn day.
If I was somewhere where I didn't need to store feed for 7 months I might think differently as I wouldn't need to own equipment, etc... and that would drastically change the economics of it... but this way, we're fully equipped to graze and fully equipped to feed and neither one being fully utilized. Think ~carefully~ about that.
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