Cattle Ranching and Land Requirements

on your grass yes that's so awesome so I've watched your channel for probably four to six months now okay and I see a lot of what you do is just the general maintenance of the farm and showing you cutting hay and things breaking down and repairs in just a real life real world of a guy in Wyoming so farming breakdowns hey cows how many cattle do you have that's something a lot of people don't realize that is kind of a personal question to some ranchers because your yearly income is directly related to what your herd can produce got to being on YouTube obviously I'm forced to be a little more open about those kinds of things right now we're somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 to 100 head depending on exactly what we sell and what we keep every year now how many I guess it's referred to as cow acres so how many cows can you raise on this land per acres so how many acres does it take to sustain say 50 head of cattle right here where we are there's a measurement Talde of what is it a um animal measurement unit animal unit measurement something to that effect but essentially the way it breaks down is to sustain one cow calf pair for a year you need 35 acres of land Wow 35 acres of land so where we're at and in the previous videos we went to Polyface farm and i think they're down to like 0.5 cow acres per per cow calf pair so and where we're at it's typical to have one acre per head of cattle so one acre of pasture land per head of cattle depending on how much you rotationally graze and and how you care for the land so man it's just night and day world's a difference and and also our wyoming life who we'll go see next and we're actually going to go see those guys today a lot of the farming practices that folks on the east and folks in the midwest just don't understand the amount of land it takes to actually raise cattle run and farm out here so any amount of work that he has to do so typically you really don't get a full three seasons here do you I mean you kind of it goes from dry too windy to winter too dry too windy to win that's pretty much it and you grew up in Tennessee is that right okay and you just fell in love with the West and