- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
I think you can do most things better if they're planned, and things like set stocking can easily fit into a grazing plan.How do you set stock really well? Genuine question. From what one hears and reads, set stocking inevitably leads to overgrazing of the “nice” plants as they recover and undergrazing of the plants that the stock are less keen on.
The key is to see it from different angles and recognise that grazing is a stress.
Overgrazing and undergrazing equals more stress and less recovery time, compared to correct grazing and appropriate recovery time.
There should be sufficient "give" or resilience for pastures to accomodate periods of set stocking, then?
Always it seems to come back to time... and we all see time in a different way as it means different things to different people.
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