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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 9259092" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>Hi, yes it's all pretty new to us up here, I went more towards risk minimisation for a start. </p><p></p><p>We just didn't know how summer was going to be, you know going from somewhere wet to somewhere dry it'll be different... but how dry is 'dry'? </p><p></p><p>Now we have some data: rain turned to snow in July and that largely was it as far as rain went, until about a fortnight ago. Over the past 9½ months half the recorded precipitation has arrived in that last fortnight, this is a much different "look" than where we were.</p><p></p><p>Management of the two is actually very much the same, plants are ready to graze when they look like ungrazed plants, however, it takes a lot longer to get to that stage over summer than just a few weeks.</p><p></p><p>I don't really see pasture management changing too much over the next year or two, we have 3x as many cattle on as 12 months ago, so it will sure look different. </p><p>But still the same basic process, graze it well but not too well.. the same basic timeframes, main point of difference is that last winter we had very short covers and they've come up quite a bit, so there's my opportunity to make a bit of dough on the side. </p><p>Bought some store cattle last week? and then got offered good money so sold them on, making a little over $11k in 10 days</p><p></p><p>Still won't be doing any topping/mowing or that kind of stuff, will plant some rye in the next few weeks</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 9259092, member: 63856"] Hi, yes it's all pretty new to us up here, I went more towards risk minimisation for a start. We just didn't know how summer was going to be, you know going from somewhere wet to somewhere dry it'll be different... but how dry is 'dry'? Now we have some data: rain turned to snow in July and that largely was it as far as rain went, until about a fortnight ago. Over the past 9½ months half the recorded precipitation has arrived in that last fortnight, this is a much different "look" than where we were. Management of the two is actually very much the same, plants are ready to graze when they look like ungrazed plants, however, it takes a lot longer to get to that stage over summer than just a few weeks. I don't really see pasture management changing too much over the next year or two, we have 3x as many cattle on as 12 months ago, so it will sure look different. But still the same basic process, graze it well but not too well.. the same basic timeframes, main point of difference is that last winter we had very short covers and they've come up quite a bit, so there's my opportunity to make a bit of dough on the side. Bought some store cattle last week? and then got offered good money so sold them on, making a little over $11k in 10 days Still won't be doing any topping/mowing or that kind of stuff, will plant some rye in the next few weeks [/QUOTE]
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