[ADSC 3600] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 26 pages long Study Guide!
6 Feb 2017
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Why not to raise beef: requires considerable land, 2 acres per cow/calf care, if have 20-30 cows, you need about 50 acres of land, requires capital for cattle and equipment, you"ve got to have fence, tractor, etc. Before this happened, us and canada had a good trade, when canada had their first case of bse, everyone closed their trade with canada. In canada, a lot of the cattle in the feed lots, got released into the pastures: foot and mouth disease, international markets can really screw you up. 65. 8 lbs of beef a year (per capita) (boneless) Most cows are bred have calves when grass is abundant in spring: you want your best feed when you"re trying to get the cows bred. Cow calf production is almost all forage based. Cattle aren"t seasonal breeders, so you bred when grass is abundant, for us it"s in the spring: rye grass is most abundant.
