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Brown has bred his cattle for efficiency.

> A large-framed cow is one that requires a higher intake level for maintenance alone

https://brownsranch.us/livestock/

My math came out similarly to yours but I don’t think it’s unreasonable for there to be 150lbs of waste high cover crop biomass in a 6 square meter area.

Again he is rotating these cattle daily and never depleting the crops of any one area, giving them a chance to grow back by the time the cattle are rotated back through.

Another term you can search for to find visuals of what this sort of density looks like is mobgrazing.




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