Drylot Beef Cow/Calf Production
V.L. Anderson, Animal Scientist, Carrington Research Extension Center
North Dakota State University, S.L. Boyles, Beef Extension Specialist, The Ohio State University
The drylot beef cow/calf enterprise is an alternative management system to traditional pasture or range beef production. Strictly defined, it is feeding confined cow/calf pairs in a feedlot environment during part or all of the traditional summer or fall-winter grazing season.
