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By Rayford Pullen | [email protected]
Seems like yesterday we were hoping spring would arrive as soon as possible and now, we are turning the page and heading into winter this month. If you have been keeping up with me the last few months, I have been doing a few exercises to see what it is going to cost us to get our cattle through the winter. The last one I used had hay costing 10 cents per pound and our cows consuming 20 pounds per day. I have also assumed a 30 percent loss of hay when fed in round bale feeders, which now makes our daily cost per cow for hay at $2.60 per day.
Now for those of us feeding a protein supplement, it appears our daily cost will be 85 cents to one dollar per day plus the cost associated with putting all this out. We now have approximate cost of $3.50 to four dollars per day. If winter is 120 days long, we are now looking at $450 per cow. If we figure in our pasture lease, equipment necessary to feed and labor, $500 may be closer. If you figure you wean a 90 percent calf crop, you then jump to $550 per weaned calf sold. I just had to get this off my chest because the drought along with feed and hay prices has put many of us in a bind to the point of throwing up our hands. The good news is that cattle prices are supposed to be great in the not-so-distant future but they need to be if we are going to survive our current predicament.
To read more, pick up a copy of the December issue of NTFR Magazine. To subscribe call 940-872-5922.
By Krista Lucas Wynn
Each year, when the professional rodeo season wraps on Sept. 30, the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and Women’s Professional Rodeo Association announce the Nutrena Horse of the Year, presented by the American Quarter Horse Association, in each event. This is a prestigious award, voted on by the members of the associations. To be named Horse of the Year by fellow competitors is a high honor only a few achieve.
To read more, pick up a copy of the November edition of North Texas Farm & Ranch magazine, available digitally and in print. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
By Heather Welper
Husband and wife duo, Heather and Calvin Welper, are the Co-Owners and Operators or Two C Livestock, located in Valley View, Texas.
The pair’s operation has a show cattle focus where they raise and sell purebred heifers of all breeds and club calf Hereford steers.
When it comes to show cattle, the Welpers know a thing or two including how to prepare for the cold winter months and the Texas major show season run.
To read more, pick up a copy of the November edition of North Texas Farm & Ranch magazine, available digitally and in print. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
By Tony Dean
Snow on the Mountain is an annual forb that is part of our landscape almost every year.
It is adapted to most of Texas and grows north to Montana and Minnesota and south to Mexico.
Although is seems to be most adapted to clay soils, this plant can be found on a wide variety of soil and moisture conditions.
To read more, pick up a copy of the November edition of North Texas Farm & Ranch magazine, available digitally and in print. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
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