A southwest Missouri grass-fed cattle operator says the drought has not been a problem for him. Adam Boman rotated his 22 cattle between 13 paddocks every day, starting in the spring, then switched to every-other-day in mid-July, “We’re doing pretty good. I mean, we haven’t had to change our operation or our grazing system. We have a pretty typical 1.9 acres per unit stocking rate.”
Boman tells Brownfield he doesn’t have as much grass as normal but there’s still a good five to eight inches of fescue coverage, “In different patches we have crabgrass, Bermuda grass coming in.
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