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nautili until ptn iiianem io itr enough along to really provide adequate nutrition. If cows are thin, particularly first calf cows, it may be a paying proposition to add some grain to the ration right along with the roughage so they will settle quickly when exposed to the bulls.
Continue Supplementation
Spring is grass tetany season and to prevent grass tetany in cows nursing calves, a daily source of supplemental magnesium needs to be supplied. Remember, cattle do not store magnesium as they do other minerals so they must get a daily intake. Commercial high mag supplements or blocks are excellent, but many producers make a homemade mix of equal part by weight of salt, magnesium oxide, dicalcium phosphate and finely ground com, soybean or cottonseed meal or dried molasses. Many producers keep cows on high magnesium supplements throughout the year. Certainly cows should remain on this type of supplementation well into June.
Maximize Pasture Use
Probably the biggest w sted resource in the state of Virginia in our three million acres of pasture land, is the grass that goes to waste because our stocking rates are too light in the early part of the grazing season (April to July). Most beef producers stock pastures for the season such that there will be plenty of forage through the driest part of the summer in July and August. This, on most farms, is certainly a mistake. This kind of stocking allows grass produced in the flush spring season to be wasted, since cattle cannot consume all the forage that is produced in May and June. If you are grazing yearling cattle, stock pastures 25 to 50 percent heavier in the spring and sell off the extra cattle in July. To utilize all the grass with cow herds will require the addition of some stocker steers with the cows in the early part of the season to be moved to another pasture or sold in July. You have the pasture paid for for the whole season. You need to utilize it. Remember, that on grazing yearling cattle, two-thirds of the gain for the whole season is made during the first half of the grazing season, if pasture rotation can occur, still greater utilization will be made of pasture. If you can’t stock to take ad sif atage of that early growth of pastuV, plan to make hay on the best laying pasture land and get at it early.
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