I operate on 150 acres and that is plenty with modern practices.

Modern ag principles entails more than simply if someone is or isn't a CAFO.  If I were to pasture only it would require around 2 acres per animal even with intensive grazing.  As I am in the Northeast and I refuse to watch my animals suffer through a winter digging for dead grasses, I only pasture during the peak pasturing seasons.  they got out after the mud (no sense risking hoof rot) in May and they come in around October (no sense risking broken legs and cut feet from ice).

They live in modern freestall barns throughout the year, sleeping in deep bedded sand stalls, drinking fresh well water and free from flies.  The barns do not have walls so there is free flow of air in the summer, the manure is handled through a lagoon so we control nutrient flows and their every need is addressed in a professional and caring manner.


Jra

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