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A Lee County farmer successfully wintered steer and heifer calves on stockpiled fescue during one of the worst winters on record for southwest Virginia, and increased his profit by $670.
Bartee Wallen of Wallens Ridge, with the assistance of his Extension agent, Harley Young, was able to carry 21 steer and heifer calves from Dec. 1 until April IS on only 300 pounds of hay per head. The rest of the feed for the 135-day period was obtained from grazing 12 acres of fescue pasture that had been fertilized with 82 pounds of nitrogen, 75 pounds of phosphorous and 75 pounds of potash per acre in August.
Wallen has a small herd of beef cows and normally sells his calves at weaning. By using stockpiled fescue, he was able to keep his calves over the winter for spring sale and by doing so, increase their value more than $1,200, H. John Gerken Jr., Extension animal scientist at Virginia Tech, reported. Added costs for fertiliser used and the hay that was fed for 30 days while snow covered the ground was about $560. Subtracting these costs from the increased value of the calves resulted in a return to labor and management of $670 amounting to an increase of $32 per head, Gerken said.
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