Going through the MiG book and this at the same time. Definitely takes some scratch paper to get a handle on the formula, but this video is really helpful. The UT Extension also has a good formula for paddock size that works well but uses average weight not Animal Units. Learning lots!
Love Greg and I have seen all his videos, but, and the math still works out, an acre has 43560sq ft not 42560. Nothing taken from this gem of a tutorial on figuring area.
He’s feeding 2 bulls that are 500lbs each, together they equate to 1 AU. When he did all the calcs he determined how many AU that area could feed. 19. Then he divided an acre by 19 to see how many square feet he needed for 1 AU
I don't understand why he divided an acre then by 19 - that just gives you your square footage per AU, but then from there he has to figure out how many AUs there are in his herd then multiply that back out to know how many square feet he needs to feed his herd for a day?
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Going through the MiG book and this at the same time. Definitely takes some scratch paper to get a handle on the formula, but this video is really helpful. The UT Extension also has a good formula for paddock size that works well but uses average weight not Animal Units. Learning lots!
Love Greg and I have seen all his videos, but, and the math still works out, an acre has 43560sq ft not 42560. Nothing taken from this gem of a tutorial on figuring area.
He’s feeding 2 bulls that are 500lbs each, together they equate to 1 AU. When he did all the calcs he determined how many AU that area could feed. 19. Then he divided an acre by 19 to see how many square feet he needed for 1 AU
We need a whiteboard for this.
Nice
I don't understand why he divided an acre then by 19 - that just gives you your square footage per AU, but then from there he has to figure out how many AUs there are in his herd then multiply that back out to know how many square feet he needs to feed his herd for a day?
30 pounds of grass dry matter, actual pound weight of consumed grass will be much higher
Math!!!