One of the most expensive parts that actually come with raising cattle, especially for beef, is your feed.

Now if you live in a growing climate where you can grow grass and pasture almost all year long,

that obviously greatly reduces. pasture almost all year long.

That obviously greatly reduces your cost.

However, if you live in a northern climate like we do,

we really only can have actively growing grass depending upon the weather for the year

really is like May through October and that's if we get enough rainfall in July and

August there have been years that we've actually had to start feeding hay in August

simply because everything dried up and there was not enough feed for the cows. So

solving that problem so that you can have your pasture grow even through the drought as well as into the cool months and kind of have that variety is really key because that can cut your costs almost in half,

especially if you can have more standing forage as we move into the cold months

where the grass isn't growing, but if we've got a lot of

top a lot of growth there to turn them on that can be almost an entire month's worth of

extra that we're not having to buy hay for. Plus if we can get our pastures to a

point of fertility that they're producing double, then we have the potential

that we could actually hay some of our own pastures and not have to buy all of our own hey. So all of that is

less than ideal soil health,

which is what we have here on this piece.

So in this video, I brought in and wanted to share with you what it looks like

the struggle, what we're dealing with and a soil expert in order to help us

figure out a plan that will bring our soil fertility up and hopefully

double our pasture which also means cutting our costs to produce feed and keep our cattle.

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