The Economic Value of Rotational Grazing

By Mitch Kezar

Lance Vilhauer pops open a fence gate and strides through dew-laden grass into a pasture. He checks his cows and calves as the sun crests over a slough filled with cattails and raucous ducks. He examines grazed grass stalks, rolling them through his fingers. “What really turned me onto rotational grazing was the economic value of it in dollar signs,” he says. He ought to know. Vilhauer is a banker.

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