The cornerstone needs to be potatoes. There’s a reason so many cultures use potatoes as their stable crop. Highly nutritious, stores very long, more pest resistant then grains, doesn’t need paddies like rice.
The acreage per cow is very dependent on where you are. I have a friend with a mother who just wanted to raise cows in her retirement (and reap the sweet tax breaks of having a ‘ranch’), and they support roughly 1 cow per acre with slight supplementation of food cubes during the winter. Go out to someplace that’s famous for cattle like west texas, and suddenly it’s a lot less,but they have so much range out there that they can let the cows go nuts.
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yeah i think people don’t understand the scale needed to support a family’s worth of cow versus a family’s worth of corn or wheat or rice
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The cornerstone needs to be potatoes. There’s a reason so many cultures use potatoes as their stable crop. Highly nutritious, stores very long, more pest resistant then grains, doesn’t need paddies like rice.
I’d agree with that.
The acreage per cow is very dependent on where you are. I have a friend with a mother who just wanted to raise cows in her retirement (and reap the sweet tax breaks of having a ‘ranch’), and they support roughly 1 cow per acre with slight supplementation of food cubes during the winter. Go out to someplace that’s famous for cattle like west texas, and suddenly it’s a lot less,but they have so much range out there that they can let the cows go nuts.