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For most conventional cattle farmers, hell no. You get high costs in terms of fertilizer, feed and fuel, not to mention labour costs, vet bills, and costs repairing fences and machinery. Your return investment is barely able to even positive, or even considered income, as most of the time you're in the red trying to pay off bills and such.
However, the tide is turning with more and more farmers looking to raise cattle as a low-cost operation. They are using pasture and grass as a main feed source for their cattle, and aim to graze their cattle for 365 days of the year. Mob grazing is an alternative to continuous grazing to better use the pasture and gain productivity and boost forage density and rigour. These same people are looking for cows that are smaller, with good milking ability and great calving ease, are good mothers, and thrive on pasture and hay alone. Miniature cattle are getting a leg-up because of this demand for smaller cattle. With the use of more pasture and less on the drylot, machinery costs, fertilizer costs, feed costs, fuel costs, vet costs, labour costs, and manure management is minimal to nil. With lower costs, you get a higher rate of income as a result, making that low-cost operation economically viable.
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