One very irritating false belief is that cattle and elk compete for grazing. Filthy rich people buy ranches for elk and deer hunting and don't want cattle on the ranch.
They are then astonished to see their tall grass becoming a fire hazard and the elk grazing across the fence with the neighbors cattle.
One very irritating false belief is that cattle and elk compete for grazing. Filthy rich people buy ranches for elk and deer hunting and don't want cattle on the ranch.
They are then astonished to see their tall grass becoming a fire hazard and the elk grazing across the fence with the neighbors cattle.
Elk eat the short bottom grass because they don't like to put their heads down in tall grass covering their view while working for bottom grass. It is more difficult and blocks their view of predators. The cattle graze that taller grass off because cattle can chew it. Elk lack the incisors to do it. This high dollar hunting practice has moved the elk east in our area back onto the high plains cattle ranches.
On another note, Tall ungrazed grass is a horrible fire hazard. Rotting grass also produces methane without going to good use producing beef.
Climate lies and rich people paying up to 60K for a hunt with a resulting big rack mounted on a den wall raise land prices beyond what a cow can pay for.
Recently a local ranch brought $1500 an acre on land that needs 40 acres to feed a cow year around.
One very irritating false belief is that cattle and elk compete for grazing. Filthy rich people buy ranches for elk and deer hunting and don't want cattle on the ranch.
They are then astonished to see their tall grass becoming a fire hazard and the elk grazing across the fence with the neighbors cattle.
Elk eat the short bottom grass because they don't like to put their heads down in tall grass covering their view while working for bottom grass. It is more difficult and blocks their view of predators. The cattle graze that taller grass off because cattle can chew it. Elk lack the incisors to do it. This high dollar hunting practice has moved the elk east in our area back onto the high plains cattle ranches.
On another note, Tall ungrazed grass is a horrible fire hazard. Rotting grass also produces methane without going to good use producing beef.
Climate lies and rich people paying up to 60K for a hunt with a resulting big rack mounted on a den wall raise land prices beyond what a cow can pay for.
Recently a local ranch brought $1500 an acre on land that needs 40 acres to feed a cow year around.