-—feedlot people-—? The typical feedlot has in the neighborhood of 30,000 feeders. Once the animals are in the finishing stage you just can’t turn them loose to graze especially in winter after the fields that might be available have already been grazed. And trucking them back to the growers is out of the question.
Smaller custom feedlots, say 200,300,400 animals have the same problem. The areas of the country that had a drought of one level or another were already short of stores. Then remember that the chicoms had a bad year a year ago and they’ve been here buying our reserves. Eastern Washington, the Palouse, grows about 80 million tons of grain stuff/year and typically 80% of that goes to Asia. This past year they took it all. But if it makes you feel any better we kept some Chinese guys from losing weight?
Thanks for explanation.
And still, those poor cows.
Excellent post.
Thank you.
What happens if cows only eat say 5 days out of 7, to help ration tight feed supplies?
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