If you're feeding 50 cows on 70 acres the experts ought to be asking you how YOU'RE doing it... Trading corn ground for forage is going to leave you buying feed. Probably not a little bit either... You're talking about trading off 15-20 tonne per acre for mabey 5-7 tonne per acre of feed. Question every single thing they tell you in every detail... and think very carefully about how a .5% drop in butterfat will affect your bottom line. It may not matter so much to you, depending on how your payments are based, but here, we're payed on fat, proteing and lactose... with the bias being on fat at somewhere around 65%. A small drop in fat makes a big drop in cheque.... If you've got to start feeding 15 bales of hay a day and adding bicarb to the feed to give them some fiber and buffer their stomach acids... all to drag the fat back up to somewhere just above pitifull, ya just took the shotgun to your own foot. You can make cheap milk on grass, but it sells as cheap milk too.
A lot of this grazing stuff is just dogma, preached by people who don't have to deal with it when it hits the fan.
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