Limited pasture pushes Minnesota cattle operation to dry-lot strategy

A southwest Minnesota cattle producer says pastureland is difficult to acquire. Ryan Vos and his family operate a 2,000 head feedlot near Hadley. “We are in cropland, it’s funny because pastureland is so non-existent down there. If there’s grassland that you see, the majority of that is either CRP, state-owned or federally-owned. So for us, […]

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