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Am. Soc. Anim. Prod. 1931:161-163
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Grain on Grass Compared with Grass Alone for Fattening Steers

C. I. Bray

Louisiana Experiment Station

Abstract

Conclusions and Comments:

Feeding concentrates to steers on pasture was profitable in 1929, and unprofitable in 1930. Drought in 1930 decreased the daily gains while overloading of the cattle markets in midsummer reduced prices to an unprofitable level.
Steers receiving concentrates on pasture required approximately half as much pasture area as those on grass alone.
Yearlings made slightly better gains than the two-year-old steers in 1929, which was a good grazing year. In 1930, they did not fatten as well. Two of the 1930 yearlings made no gains for several weeks—one with an infected foot and one with a case of screw worms in an injured side.
The New Orleans market demands light weight cattle —600 to 700 pounds—with a light finish. Pasture finishing of yearlings with grain on grass has proved a satisfactory method of finishing young cattle, with the exception of 1930, an abnormal year.
In 1930, the cattle had the following acreages of pastures per head;
Lot 1................ .51 acres, with grain
Lot 2................ 1.18 acres, grass only
Lot 3................ .37 acres, with grain
Lot 2 ran somewhat short of pasture in July, and were removed to another pasture two weeks. After rains in the latter part of July, all lots had more than sufficient grass.
6. Average of 3 years pasture feeding 1928, 1929, and 1930: Grain-Grass Grass Only
Daily gains .............. 1.97 1.26
Grain per lb. gain.......... 3.50 ...
Selling price..............$10.18 $8.43






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