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The Economics of Rotational Grazing in the Gulf Coast Region: Costs, Returns, and Labor Considerations

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Gillespie, Jeffrey
Wyatt, Wayne
Venuto, Brad
Blouin, David
Boucher, Robert
Abstract

Labor and profitability associated with continuous grazing at three stocking rates and rotational grazing at a high stocking rate are compared. Profits are lowest for low stocking rate continuous grazing and high stocking rate rotational grazing. Labor is greatest on per-acre and per-cow bases with rotational grazing.

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Paper provided by Southern Agricultural Economics Association in its series 2007 Annual Meeting, February 4-7, 2007, Mobile, Alabama with number 34943.

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Keywords: Livestock Production/Industries;

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