Dear HCN,
I would like to make a
technical point. Increasingly, people are quoting the
quasi-statistic that “anywhere one has to talk acres per cow,
rather than cows per acre, is no place to be grazing
livestock.”
Even the world’s most intensively
managed irrigated pastures do not often support a stocking rate in
excess of one cow per acre. That means stocking rates on the vast
majority of the world’s grazing lands are correctly measured in
acres per cow.
Jim
Winder
Deming, New Mexico
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