re: Official Yellowstone Season 5 Thread

The average grazing ratio in Montana (using 2021 BLM standards is 1 cow per 10.48 acres)

Compared with Louisiana, for example is 1 cow per 2 acres.

If, Dutton is needing 100,000 acres, one must assume that he’s needing it to support 9,500 head of cattle.

First of all, the show has depicted approximately herds of a couple hundred at best but closer to about 100 head.

Secondly, those little catch pens and cowboys aren’t even remotely adequate to facilitate 9,500 head of cattle.

Also, you can lease pasturage in Louisiana for about $14/acre and you would only need 20,000 acres. That’s about $280,000 and that would be annually (or seasonally). But he needs like 1.5 per month?

Also let’s talk trucking with fuel prices the way it is.
Considering the shear weight of 9,500 cattle is roughly 50,000 lbs weight per truck. That would be about 190 18-wheeler loads of cattle to go say approximately 1,500 miles.
I don’t know the going trucking rate but even at $3/ mile $855,000 one way.

So that writing is absurd and that business model is ridiculous. He might as well just sell it and move to Destin.

The stupidity in just the cow logistics lost me not counting the fact that the attorney general is screwing opposing counsel to obtain an unfair legal advantage in pending litigation (which would be clear violations of the rules of professional conduct), does the attorney general forget the murder he committed? Or is he going to claim duress from Beth about the abortion?

This writing isn’t just sloppy it’s downright ridiculous. The show jumped the shark once Taylor Sheridan showed up as a horse trainer. It’s gone downhill ever since.

Oh and 1923 is a snooze fest.