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for crop production, but which does produce pasture, and if there are waste roughages on the farm or roughages that are not marketable by some other method, there is almost automatically a place for some cattle.
The proper size cattle unit in most cases will be that size necessary to use the pasture and roughage. This is the basis on which a large number of cattle exist in Virginia beef production. Often a farm has a specialty responsible for the larger amount of income, but has land available. By keeping »cattle extra income can be added.
Cattle require some labor, but mostly during winter, Mast said. This is why they Tit in so well with a number of enterprises. The labor requirement comes at the time when other farm operations don’t need it. . In the summer cattle use pasture when the main enterprises require maximum labor.
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