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So Longhorn beef have a distinctive taste that is different than other beef? Is that clay good for raising veggies, too? How much land is cleared and how much is in trees? Do you have any streams, springs or ponds on the property?
Longhorns have less fat and therefore have a different taste and must be cooked differently.
People up there raise their own veggies for personal use,most commercial farming seems to be hay or apples.
The land needs clearing,it is overgrown with brush and small trees.
We have two small streams on the property and our land borders one large creek.
From what I've heard, and I'm certainly not an expert, having live water is great for cattle. Guess it depends on if it's near the pasture or not. Did you already drill a well? If so, how is your water? Good pressure and taste?
Last edited by tambre; 06-03-2009 at 04:44 AM..
Reason: not enuf java...
You have to be careful around streams with any livestock. The NRCS truly discourages the direct drinking of livestock in natural water bodies. In fact they do not pay for fencing as a rule, but when it comes to natural bodies of water, they will pay to fence these areas to exclude livestock. Since it is your property, it is in your best interest to keep these animals from pooing and polluting your streams and natural water bodies as well.
The NCRS in this county anyway, no longer builds farm ponds for this reason. They will however cost share for a well. In my county, we voted to put wells at a 50% cost share, meaning obviously that they pay for half the cost of the well, while you pay for the other half. That's not a bad deal at all. We decided to cap wells at 50% only because we wanted to discourage people from using fed money to install their own water wells for future homes. Typically cost share programs are funded at 75%.
From what I've heard, and I'm certainly not an expert, having live water is great for cattle. Guess it depends on if it's near the pasture or not. Did you already drill a well? If so, how is your water? Good pressure and taste?
The two small streams are too small for much of anything,although we might try building a pond fed by them.We might be able to run a pump from the large creek to get water in the field near there,however we haven't even been able to walk there for a while due to it being so overgrown.
We had our well drilled a few months back,great tasting water and lots of it, thank God.
The two small streams are too small for much of anything,although we might try building a pond fed by them.We might be able to run a pump from the large creek to get water in the field near there,however we haven't even been able to walk there for a while due to it being so overgrown.
We had our well drilled a few months back,great tasting water and lots of it, thank God.
One thing you can do that is install two tiles in those small seasonal streams. You could line the bottom of the tile with rock and that would let you have an 8 foot well, 4 feet in diameter that would fill up with water. (750 gallons of water...more if you went with 3 tiles...or 4)
I plan to do this near a seasonal stream on my farm. It is too far away from any dwelling to get electricity too, but if I hook up my small generator to a sump pump, it could fill up a stock tank within a reasonable distance especially if I use that inexpensive black plastic pipe. That would get your stream to help water your livestock and not pollute your stream with cattle poo.
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