Grass-Fed Beef, Secrets and Struggles
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
- Raising grass fed beef is simple in concept but extremely difficult to execute or carry out. I break it down to three simple concepts to try and control or master. Genetics, age, and nutrition.
In this video I talk about three simple concepts to producing grass fed beef. Master these and your got an exceptional product to market. Genetics, age and nutrition. Simple in concept but difficult to execute.
Need ocean plants to hybrid with fresh water and grass to be watered with ocean water
Send ocean water through dry rivers with a separate sewage pipeline and your rivers and swimming pool will have ocean fish, use a steam distiller for disinfected salt free drinking water and your planet will make it, I know
Put salt on your roads, plant ocean grass and one fire won't burn down a California neighborhood
Get generic engineers to work on hybriding ocean root structures with fresh water plants for the future of farming
Send your lawnmower clippings fresh with $3,200 tax refunds to feed 3x more cattle, 3x more milk, cheese, ice cream and cheesecake, maybe people full time will be riding around in air conditioned tinted window xfm lawnmower, others can work 4 day work weeks and get paid to mow their lawn once a week. Cows go into a building with plastic strip doors, out of a refrigeration coolerfresh shredded has sprayed with water comes out on 4' high conveyors to feed the cattle. After 20 minutes is hours back in another 6" below it comes out, stays cool and fresh, cows are cooler inside, eat more, fans on, no flies on them, they get bigger quicker, they get a small bowl of ice cream at the end, enjoy their life and make you the best milk, the happiest cows. Before they get arthritis they get a sick with some fentynal and go to sleep, then it's an hour before a freezing. They're still conscious for up to that. Take a 60B insist to 180 Billion. You throw it away and pay to pick it up and dump it away year. You throw away 3x your cattle potential every year. And you're going hungry and need a war for your kids? Crazy
You wait all year for a corn crop yet mow the United States every week and instead pay to pick it up and throw it away
Maybe the river waste water can go into the desert instead of the Gulf
One day they can make a storage sealed waste line in the river and everyone is off toilet to tap
Thanks for the information. We are working with a small heard of angus and South polls bread to a South poll Bull in Southeast Texas. Our first calve are about a month old. Our forage is same as yours. Was looking to feed the steers about 26 months but might have re-evaluate at 26 and consider going 28-30.
Let me know how they turn out and what age you go to. One thing I’ve found is that no matter how good a steer looks, they always look even better when you let them grow a little longer.
I am a beef farmer from New Zealand. All pasture fed. No supplements. Why are you grazing your fattening cattle with your cows? We would not run our fattening cattle with our breeding herd. I think you said they were in the paddock for their 4th day? We rotationally graze. The cattle we fatten get a day, maybe 2 per paddock. In winter they are behind a hot wire on daily shifts. I leave them with access back to cover...trees or just a hill to get out of the wind. Usually kill everything around 20 months of age. It just doesnt pay to keep them any longer here. Our weather is not extreme so I think farming here is pretty easy.
Finding these videos of how others farm is so interesting. Well done and keep going.
First off thanks for the comment, love hearing about what others are doing. I would like to run multiple herds and rotate every day, unfortunately I don’t have the time. I work a full time off-farm job and I have three kids to chase around. So I plan my paddock sizes on my next available day.
I generally run one herd and try to keep them on the best grass. I would like to keep the butcher steers separate, but haven’t really seen an advantage to that in the past so I just try to keep it simple.
I go 30 months so that I can produce what people want to eat here in Louisiana. Obesity is a way of life here, people want big fatty steaks. We have low protein grass as our dominant native grasses so it just takes time for them to grow unless you supplement.
Hmm I see your problem. In NZ we have been struggling to get our cattle into the meat processors. No staff, covid, blah blah. I think they are reducing throughput as sales are down. Our interest on mortgages are skyrocketing. Pork and chicken are way cheaper.
Grass fed beef is pretty much the only option here. We dont have the grain production to supplement. So following the annual grass growth is built into our systems. But most farmers here do silage baleage and/or hay. Plus some crop. Brassicas and fodder beet. I keep it easy, simple. Drop stock numbers going into winter. We still get grass growth in winter so a slow rotation gets us through.
It is also very difficult for us to get our animals to the butcher. I have to schedule 18-24 months in advance since the Covid pandemic. Real pain.
Hell. And I thought our system was at breaking point.
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Good evening and work on construction and i love to buy a land and start but i have a Question, what about grass and supplements? What its the profit you can make ? I asuume that we can take a 600 lb to 1200 lb in 1 year, maybe making less profit but making avery year, but i dont have a clue what that profit can be, do you? Thank you very much for your video.
That’s a really complicated question to answer. When I first stared with cattle, I bought steers and grew them out and sold beef. At that point I had sheep and land and infrastructure in place. I was making a few hundred dollars per steer if I only counted the direct input costs. I don’t think I could add in land costs and stay profitable. Lots of variables that can push odds in your favor or against you. It’s a lot of fun, but not what I would pursue as primary income.
sir you are doing grass fed right, most "grass-fed beef " at the grocery store is just wild ass pasture cows and taste like a overaged poorly processed swamp hog/deer. I highly doubt yours will taste like that
Summer grasses lack the protein here in Texas same way. Our winter grasses fatten them up way better than the summer forage in the deep south.
BTW if you got some high and dry areas, try some bluestem, it hits 16% cruse protein during the hottest 2 month of the summer.
I appreciate the vote of confidence. We do get some bluestem that comes up mid to late summer. Once it gets past 8-10 inches tall my cows won’t eat it.
What do you do in summer when it’s hot- for shade ?
I’m a big proponent of having trees scattered in the pasture. I have live oak, honey locust, green ash, persimmon, hackberry, willow and more dotted throughout most of my pastures.
Cows look fat and happy!
Thanks