Swath grazing significantly reduces the grip of time, weather and forage harvesting equipment constraints, works well in a row cropping crop rotation and provides a major piece in year-round grazing puzzle with significantly better forage utilization than stock piled managed intensive grazing for winter in deep snow or muddy conditions. The Iowa State University Beef Teaching farm has entered into the 4th continuous year of this management strategy and has no intention of going back to the previous bale feeding, stock pile grazing or feedlot strategies of the past in the overwintering of the main cow herd.