Paul Beck
Oklahoma State University
There is a quote in the 1922 U.S. Department of Agriculture Yearbook of Agriculture that is appropriate, “The cheapest of all feed is pasture because it furnishes a balanced ration at a low cost and the cow does her own harvesting … but in comparatively few cases is the fullest possible use made of pasture.”
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