This is our third season of the cull cow program.
Basics are: purchasing good condition cull cows under 1100 lbs in the fall/ over wintering on pasture & hay / grazing as a finishing herd for the season/ harvest 1 year post purchase.
Average gains are 300 pounds of new flesh.
"Free" calving rate around 40%.
Cull cow mortality around 10% from either death or recycle.
In this video I take a 10 minute look at the herd here in early summer and identify ones that are gaining weight well, ones not so much and start getting an idea of what carcass quality we'll have come fall.
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I (Jordan) and my wife, Laura, own and operate J & L Green Farm in Virginia. It has been our full time occupation for the last 10 years building this first generation, pasture based, (insert your favorite word), direct to retail farm. We are in the small percentage of farmers that actually make their income from farming. As such we address our farm as a business and make decisions with that in mind. What you see here is what it takes. No BS or disney’ifying.
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