Grazing is a way to utilize unproductive farmland.
In the past producers could easily buy more land to accommodate increased grazing.
But Jane Thornton, a livestock farm production extension specialists, says that’s not the case any longer.
“As we know the cost of land has gone up significantly and even the marginal land is getting pretty pricey for the amount of carrying capacity that it can provide. So I think in the future producers may look more at how they can approve the land that they have in an economically viable way.”
Thornton encourages producers to think about the different options they could take to improve grazing such as seeding alfalfa, clover or birdsfoot trefoil.
