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- NSW, Newstralya
“But we NEED a recipe”
"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
- Thread starter Kiwi Pete
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- NSW, Newstralya
One size fits all . . .
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
Sorry, I’m being a cûnt . . .
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
"disruptive"
...actually, there are some really good things that come out of this thread, because of the 3 principles linked in lately;
1. the cascading/compounding effects of putting likeminded people in a group (or likeminded people joining in, to be more accurate)
2. the diversity aspect, because we're all different, have different goals
3. ....and you being disruptive ? because sometimes we forget to push the boundaries, get out of the comfort zone, because of our nature - one of forming habits, to save us from thinking all the time
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
But the thing is, (as Ian Mitchell-Innes loves to say) we're managing chaos
so, you need to be adaptable, flexible
otherwise, the recipe catches you out, and bites you severely in the buttocks - like old mate's 35 acres washing off down the hill: there's a really good example of a recipe that usually works, not working out because nature loves to pull out the wildcard.
'sh!t happens' ?
Even here, lots of wildcards.
This week, had 20mm rain one day, a -6 start this morning, a new bunch of calves to teach.. and tomorrow the neighbour's putting on fish hydrolysate with a helicopter, 30 metres from them ?
somehow I don't think "just put them at 1,000,000kg/ha and shift them at 7.50, 12, 3, 5.30, and 10pm" is a recipe for each and every day ?
so, you need to be adaptable, flexible
otherwise, the recipe catches you out, and bites you severely in the buttocks - like old mate's 35 acres washing off down the hill: there's a really good example of a recipe that usually works, not working out because nature loves to pull out the wildcard.
'sh!t happens' ?
Even here, lots of wildcards.
This week, had 20mm rain one day, a -6 start this morning, a new bunch of calves to teach.. and tomorrow the neighbour's putting on fish hydrolysate with a helicopter, 30 metres from them ?
somehow I don't think "just put them at 1,000,000kg/ha and shift them at 7.50, 12, 3, 5.30, and 10pm" is a recipe for each and every day ?
Kung Fu panda says there is no secret recipe .....that is the secret to enlightenment.
and he is a good lad
probably not very holistic eithersomehow I don't think "just put them at 1,000,000kg/ha and shift them at 7.50, 12, 3, 5.30, and 10pm" is a recipe for each and every day ?
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
And so, we mix it up. Needed my pogo elsewhere, so it's just as well my mob will call.
Grazed this paddock the opposite way around to last time.
Put some extra wires on the lane fence in case the heli spooks them into it. Rolled their trough up to tomorrows first break, filled it up, drained the line. Will probably need to go gritting about 6am, so their shift will have to fit around that.
No room for recipes here! Monotony is a killer, "degenerative". So avoid monotony!
Grazed this paddock the opposite way around to last time.
No room for recipes here! Monotony is a killer, "degenerative". So avoid monotony!
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
But the thing is, (as Ian Mitchell-Innes loves to say) we're managing chaos
so, you need to be adaptable, flexible
otherwise, the recipe catches you out, and bites you severely in the buttocks - like old mate's 35 acres washing off down the hill: there's a really good example of a recipe that usually works, not working out because nature loves to pull out the wildcard.
'sh!t happens' ?
Even here, lots of wildcards.
This week, had 20mm rain one day, a -6 start this morning, a new bunch of calves to teach.. and tomorrow the neighbour's putting on fish hydrolysate with a helicopter, 30 metres from them ?
somehow I don't think "just put them at 1,000,000kg/ha and shift them at 7.50, 12, 3, 5.30, and 10pm" is a recipe for each and every day ?
hsha - most threads here don’t appreciate “disruptive” ( ie - making people question the status quo. )
They’d rather just send death threats
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
Brave. From 11,000 miles awayhsha - most threads here don’t appreciate “disruptive” ( ie - making people question the status quo. )
They’d rather just send death threats
we've had rain you'd think every one would br cheerful.
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
I'm cheerful ?
Thankfully this thread is always positive & cheery
You've trained your cows well , they've eaten off the thistle flower
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
It's a regenerative thing ?Thankfully this thread is always positive & cheery
I get enough negativity talking to local commodity producers, that I really don't need to look elsewhere on the forum for more gloom and doom - it seems to be the default setting for most of the world's lucky people.
Life's been so good that they just stop appreciating how it got so good for them - mainly, on the back of agriculture and mining the soil to create economies.
However, they're in for a rude shock if "they" think it's going to continue to get better and better - for what's really happening is very unsustainable.
When you look at "The Dustbowl" (@Deerefarmer got a mention) scenario, the farmers just wrecked land and moved onto new land when it was rooted. But where do we go next?
Interestingly the dustbowl, due to being "left for dead" is now the beginning of a whole new agricultural paradigm: cheap land for regenerative farmers and ranchers to bring back to life.
It just takes a different mindset to the one that killed it.
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
They'll be back for the rest of it in October
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
I’m cheerful