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Not a fan then?Does no one else find it slightly irritating that there are now progressive ‘rules’. If you want to be a progressive and profitable farmer you need to comply. Rotational grazing is a great example - if you rotationally graze you ALWAYS make more money and are more progressive and it you can do 24hr - 30min moves you are the bestest.
I think they also think it's possible to do the Greg Judy approach in Cumbria in the winter without poaching fields and making them worse rather than better. In the summer yes, winter no.Does no one else find it slightly irritating that there are now progressive ‘rules’. If you want to be a progressive and profitable farmer you need to comply. Rotational grazing is a great example - if you rotationally graze you ALWAYS make more money and are more progressive and it you can do 24hr - 30min moves you are the bestest.
Our farm and attached hill ground is owned by the National trust so putting miles of electric fencing on the hill would be a non starter. Add to that the right to roam and hundreds/thousands of walkers and cyclists and horse riders wondering wherever they like, plus the wild deer and Exmoor ponies that could decimate hell of a lot of fencing in a very short period of time, it would be practically and logistically impossible. The only way to achieve it would be with collars that shock the animals when they move out of the designated area but imagine the uproar from the animal rights nutters if that was allowed
Not a fan then?
It's something we would be very keen to look into further. What sort of ground do you do it on? be very interested in coming for a look sometime.
Being local I'd be along (used to look after watercourses in Epping Forest).
Seems to me they would be ideal for keeping stock in the right place in a set stocked, extensive situation. Think it would be a bit unfair on the poor buggers on a set up like yours, moving the ‘invisible’ fences daily/ multiple times per day!
Would be ideal from excluding them from sensitive areas
That was what I was thinking, there are collared cows in the south of England now, there are still plenty of privately owned up land areas in the UK, I accept that there are restrictions in some areas but resourcefulness can often over come restrictions, there are herds in Oz and the US that practice rotational grazing with out fences so it is possible, even if it maybe impractical.Our farm and attached hill ground is owned by the National trust so putting miles of electric fencing on the hill would be a non starter. Add to that the right to roam and hundreds/thousands of walkers and cyclists and horse riders wondering wherever they like, plus the wild deer and Exmoor ponies that could decimate hell of a lot of fencing in a very short period of time, it would be practically and logistically impossible. The only way to achieve it would be with collars that shock the animals when they move out of the designated area but imagine the uproar from the animal rights nutters if that was allowed
Greg Judy mostly only does summer grazing, the cattle arrive in the spring and leave in the autumn.
Who supplies beef the other six months of the year?
I’m not sure that’s correct, certainly not on all of his farms. He has a large herd of South Poll breeding cows and turns the bulls out with them to breed, en masse, yearlings, two yr olds etc
Does it matter?