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    Grazing Rates: What Is a Fair Payment? - Practical Farmers of Iowa

    • This extra promotion has led to questions about the rates to charge for grazing arrangements. Rates depend on the grazing arrangement. Depending on the operation type and available resources, the agre… See more

    Determine Your Rate

    To decide on a fair grazing rate, all parties need to understand the costs they’ll incur for … See more

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    Additional Rate Formulas

    Because livestock and land enterprises vary, so can these calculation rates. Another example, listed in ATTRA’s “Grazing Contracts for Livestock” publication… See more

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    When Grazing Small Ruminants

    Rates for contract grazing small ruminants like goats or sheep can differ greatly from cattle. When charging for targeted grazing – the practice of using livestock for specific vegetation … See more

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    How Many Acres Per Cow Do You Need? - On Pasture
    With a good system at top efficiency, and average production of three tons per acre, you’ll need 2.6 acres to meet the dry matter requirements of the 1,000-pound cow for a year. If you are contin…
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  1. One metric that is useful in developing a pasture utilization plan is grazeable days per pasture. This is an estimate of the number of days a particular herd can graze based on the amount of allowable forage in a given pasture. Grazeable Days Per Pasture = (Allowable Forage Per Acre × Pasture Acres) / Daily Animal Demand # Herd AUs

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    How many cows can you graze per acre?
    The common practice with rotational grazing is to measure the ‘average cow-days per acre.’ If, for instance, the average cow days per acre is 50 cow days per acre in your land, it means you can graze one cow on one acre for 80 days, or you can graze 80 cows on one acre for 1 day.

    How Many Cows Per Acre Do You Need? - Farming Base

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    How much does grazing cost?
    They priced out their grazing costs as follows: grazing corn residue cost $0.50 per cow day, grazing sorghum-sudangrass cost $1.60 per cow day and hay bale grazing cost $2 per cow day. To determine the rates, they estimate expenses (input costs per acre) for the farmer.

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    How many acres a cow needs?
    We need to estimate the pasture forage yield to know how many acres a cow needs. The numbers may lie in a vast range from 0.25 up to 7.5 AUM/ac. Many factors influence these values: Grazing strategy (e.g., rotational grazing). In our cattle per acre calculator, we focus mainly on the first two factors.

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    How many cows do you need with intensive grazing?
    The calculation to determine the number of cows you need with intensive grazing is based on Animal Units (AU), based on a mature 1000 lb cow. With intensive grazing, it is assumed you need 33AU (33,000 lb) per acre in a day. This translates to 33 cows per acre in a day with intensive grazing.

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    Do cows need grazing?
    Using body condition scoring to determine ideal weights for your cows can give you insight on whether or not feed in addition to pasture is needed. Benefits of grazingCostThe highest cost in most, if not all, cattle production systems is feed.

    Grazing and pasture management for cattle | UMN Extension

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    How many cows can a pasture support?
    For example, if you have a "Backroad" pasture with 500 acres of land, 2,000 pounds-per-acre forage production, and medium quality forage; and your current herd consists of 300 pairs of lactating cows (1,350 lbs. average weight), your pasture can support your herd for 24 grazing days (Figure 4).

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    How Many Cows Per Acre Do You Need? - Farming Base

    The common practice with rotational grazing is to measure the ‘average cow-days per acre.’ If, for instance, the average cow days per acre is 50 cow days per acre in your land, it means you can graze one cow on one acre for 80 days, or you …

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    Cattle per Acre Calculator

    Sep 13, 2024 · Check this cattle per acre calculator to estimate the total number of cows that can graze on a pasture, depending on its condition and precipitation zone.

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    How Many Acres Per Cow Do You Need? - On Pasture

    Feb 17, 2020 · With a good system at top efficiency, and average production of three tons per acre, you’ll need 2.6 acres to meet the dry matter requirements of the 1,000-pound cow for a year. If you are continuously grazing, you will need …

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    Cattle per Acre Calculator – How Many Cattle Per Acre

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    Grazing and pasture management for cattle | UMN …

    Producers use grazing to help reduce feed costs and make unproductive cropland productive. You should have a grazing plan to make sure you are as efficient as possible in using your grazing forage. The different grazing …

  10. Practical Farmers of Iowa
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    Grazing days calculations! Or, what the livestock coordinator does …

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    Determining Carrying Capacity and Stocking Rates

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    Calculators in this app: Number of days in a paddock based on cows, paddock size and kgDM/lbDM or m 2 /yd 2 allocation. Result can be used to calculate break fence location. Read more →. kgDM/Cow/Day or lbDM/Cow/Day based …