16—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Mar. 23. 1974
One of Ray Long’s beef cows grazes contentedly
near the four pole barns that can house some 1200
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steers gain about three pounds a day on this diet and some of
them do better. They usually go out of here 75 or 80 days after
they come in. I buy every pound of feed I use, and that can get
expensive. But I figure I make up the difference with faster
gains, lower labor costs and by not having my capital tied up
as long.
“We fed cob chop and silage at first, but I’d never go back.
I think we cut our labor in half with this feeding program.”
Again, bong saves trucking expense by handling all
■transportation himself. He buys both shelled com and sup
plement in bulk quantities and trucks them to the farm. The
steers eat about 20 pounds of com a day. When they first
enter the feedlot, Long uses a converter feed to get the
animals onto a no roughage diet. They’re switched com
pletely over in 12 days, and he says he’s never had any health
problems.
“I wouldn’t try to run a cow-calf operation like this, but the
steers just aren’t here long enough to develop any
problems,” Long said.
In previous summers, Long has pastured some steers, but
he said he’ll be switching his pastureland to a cow-calf
operation this year. He plans to run upwards of 150 cows on
his pasture which, he feels, can take care of one animal for
every two acres. Some hay and grain will also be fed to the
cows over the summer and in the fall Long plans to sell the
calves for feeders.
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Long fertilizes his pasture every other year and limes it
every third year. Manure from the steer pens goes onto the
pasture, too.
The four steerbams are bedded down with straw whenever
necessary. Long says he has to use straw even though it
might be selling for more than hay. “They go crazy for
roughage,” he says, “and they even eat a little bit of the
straw that we give them. But if we’d bed down with hay,
they’d eat till they’d bloat up and die.”
In addition to the beef steers, Long occassionally feeds
some heifers and some Holstein steers. He has a broker in
Virginia who keeps him supplied with feeders. The calves
from his Virginia operation are sold as lightweight feeders.
How does Lon g feel about the near-term future of the cattle
business? “Feeders with the guts to stick it out will be all
right. But they can’t miss one day of watching the market.
They’ve got to keep up. I don’t intend to quit.”
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