[Jacob-list] Fw: Grain'-n-grazin'

[Gary Tomas Fay]

Neil

*** Praise GOD, I am getting a soft rain this morning! ***

Gary

Grose wrote:

> Thank you for your comments, Jim. The problem is that we routinely
> sell corn at a loss. $2 corn doesn't make any grower rich, but it sure
> keeps feed cost down. The main point that I would like to make is that
> if we expect to deliver consistent lambs to our consumers, we need to
> provide consistent feed. It really doesn't matter at the consumer's
> end how we get it there; we need to provide a total ration of 70% TDN
> and 16% protein. This means that lambs are going to have to be kept on
> pastures that are in an early vegatative stage of growth...difficult
> to do when we have not had rain in 3 months. Lambs are grown out in
> one growing season, calves generally take about 15 months. I wonder:
> if calve
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