Beef Cattle Farming for Beginners – Recommendations

Before you do anything you need to prepare, you must prepare and plan your pastures. Perimeter fencing, a shelter, a strong pen to hold the cattle when needed and a clean loafing and eating area must be completed prior to arrival. Ensure your fencing is sturdy enough for holding the cattle, you don’t want to have to deal with them escaping. Cattle Farming Pastures are extremely important in beef cattle farming, you must be prepared and able to manage and maintain the land. There’s no point in fertilizing the land only to leave it to then fend for itself and reduce in quality, that in turn could reduce the quality of your returns from the cattle. Ensuring you have an adequate mower will help in three key ways; extra legumes and grasses, getting of the weeds and brush and finally clipping the unwanted bits from the animals keeping it all tender and making hay. Get yourself help Make sure you brush up, study, try to get some experience under your belt.…