Colorado Ranch Management School (Part 6)
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grazing leases, your neighbor’s field of crop aftermath, the pile of cull potatoes down the road, and the local feed store. This is a description of your feed resources. Which of these are economical, and used in what way? The severity of your climate will also have a major impact on the final description of your economical feed resources and the level of animal production it will support. The second consideration, your dependency on labor and machinery, will have a lasting impact on profitability. As labor and machinery costs increase, the likelihood of profit declines. You all know of the rancher that manages to calve 300 cows on his owl. Thé point is, he designed it that way. So to keep the animal in perspective, it is important to understand that the sun is our primary energy source. Green plants trap sunlight energy and convert it to nutrients for their growth and propagation. Animals, including humans, eat e plants and other animals, converting them into nutrients for their own growth and propagation. And thus, energy flows from the sun. A world of animals depends on the energy captured by a world of plants, and life on this planet is a function of this
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