Randy you have the land to put the cows/cattle on. Rather than your son selling his herd just have him buy part of the needed feed. Heck most years around here you can buy hay good enough for brood cows cheaper than you can raise it. Corn is under the cost of production right now for most people. So unless your over applying manure to your current land you will have more to use on your ground. By supplementing feed year round you can really up the density of cows per acre.
My youngest son does not have enough pasture ground for his cows. So he is running 100 cows on maybe 45-50 acres of pasture. Zero hay ground. He feeds ground hay and wet gluten feed year round to them. In the winter he adds ground corn. We figured his actual cost per cow/calf pair and it is lower than mine is. He buys low quality hay. As long as it is dry and tree/brush free he can have it ground and just use it for his fiber source. Then use byproducts to built the nutrition they need.
Also I have found that the ground may not leave and often when it does other ground pops up. I posted last year about how I was unable to buy some ground we had farmed for around 50 years. Well we rented 3 times as much "new" ground that is better ground. So losing that was actually a good thing since it sold for too much money. We already have been approached by several landowners with additional ground for the future. Seems a lot of them like getting paid on time every time over fishing for the MAYBE BIG fish rent payment.
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