Hello Rick
Why would 2,3, or 4 acres per cow be required for manure management? Most
confinement farms in our region are more like 2,3, or 4 cows to the acre.
Brad Cowan
Astoria, Oregon
> The manure management is going to require how many acres per cow? At least
> two or three acres? Four acres? With "only" 640 acres in a square mile and
> if you had 4 contiguous sections of land with the parlor smack in the center
> and all of it accessible from the central point, it seems that would not be
> enough of land base for nutrient management.
>
> How have you worked this out on paper?
>
> Anyone know of the largest grazing dairy farms that are set up as one unit?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Rick Williams
>
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