[cotopaxi14]

Head and 802 acres of Montana Range land

 

[cotopaxi14]

200 head of cattle

 

[Markwright]

Your stocking rate

sounds a touch rich for even Western MT mountain country/valleys.
If your talking 200 cows.
your posts are real vague, btw..


rotate pasture...use some NZ hotwire grazing methods, buy hay, put up some hay etc..

200 head of cattle

 

[charloisfarmer]

Use padlocks rotate them let the cows graze it down move it the hard part about padlocks is u need a water source

 

[Markwright]

grass is dormant in the winter so graze it as hard as snow cover allows..

leave some tall strips to hold snow, btw...they need to lay e to w...and only need to be bout 5 ft wide...ie tall grass.

likely your gonna need to supp some hay and/or ear corn 2.

sun even at 10 degrees F will beat off ( melt ) your E / S slopes off prretty good so you'll want to use the supps to bait em over to that in the winter ( get tracks and it melts more snow and ice and enables more winter grazing ).

good luck...seems 2 me like U better start with less than 200 head....say 50 decent cows and they'll Teach You how things Work.

btw, calf in May thru June there.

you ain't equipped 2 do it earlier.

200 head of cattle

 

[cotopaxi14]

Ya I'll start with less I just bought 220 more acres.