By changing their mindset and actively managing their grazing, the Brunner family improves profitability

Justin Brunner, his father, Wes, and his grandfather, Mike, had never thought of their pastures as more than someplace for their 500 milking cows to lie down.

“We had four pastures of 25 acres apiece,” Justin says. “We’d just let them wander around in there. We never thought of using grass as their main source of feed. We just thought they could lie in it.”

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