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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    What about those cattle in the video too, longhorns, thinking about getting one as my herd bull for next year
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    What I taking from it: Avoid thatch Avoid bare soil Go for good animal performance Managing for biodiversity yields Natural supplemention for animals Give animals the space to spread out to graze
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    Dick Richardson, always enjoy learning the basics of how soil is made and grows stuff
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    I have had my long rest fields melt on me in some places more than others. A lot of grass species in Ireland evolved with and handle continued grazing I think.
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    Was thinking of more long term storage like this guy...
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    Just want a month reserve on the hill access to up there would be easy to cut off with weather, unfortunately not allowed to build barn up there
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    I am thinking of burying some round bales of silage as a reserve of last resort. Hopefully will never be needed but these dry summers are making me think. How would you do this? Stack on flat end and just cover?
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    Irish farmers have heavily invested in slurry storage in last 15 years. We were pushed by the state agencies and a lot of grants. However we now have spent so much on concrete we have a path dependency and no focus on outwintering systems. If nature wanted dung and urine to mix it would not...
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    Yes I could but I am curious now about this kind of managed continous grazing, I visited a dairy farmer doing if and he had amazing diversity & stock. I now need to know will my pasture last just as long on daily moves through 7 divisions
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    I was hoping to get to Christmas there and then take them to hill block. Diversity hasn't really taken off on this farm since moving to long rest periods and I live too far away to move more frequently. Poaching levels will be interesting as I know how this farm performs rotationally during...
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    Speaking of outwintering, I have 11 May born calves and 3 Jersey cows with 20 acres ahead of them -aftergrass 90 days since being cut. I am currently moving once every 2 days but am going to switch to a continuous graze system as an experiment. I am thinking splitting into 9 paddocks and moving...
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    This is a confusing one. Organic dairy farmer over here switched from holistic planned grazing to a short grass grazing system https://open.spotify.com/episode/5roN5Du3dCecqXoCEEzC0f?si=8MKJuoZSSZi-W2RMjXyU1A&utm_source=copy-link
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    Native breeds photographs

    Droimeann cattle in the hills of Munster Ireland
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    Congrats, I am debt free this year too, its a real high. I have been beset with lows too that are really staying with me. Basically I have had way too many die in last 6 months 4 out of 20 cows. Different reasons / mistakes. Hard on the ego
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    Looks great, are you doing calf at foot dairy?
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    My neighbour believes Limos or wild here because they get the wrong nourishment in Ireland so are always on edge
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    Johan Zeitsman agrees on the smaller cow, in Veld conditions in Africa, 300kg is optimum for him, also he priotitises high meat to bone ratio, I know our native Droimeanns kill out a high %
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    Dealing with depression - suicidal thoughts - Join the conversation (including helpline details)

    Great Post Pete, could we function quite well by trying not to know ourselves at all, avoiding identity, just drive to make our goals / purpose.
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    This org is interesting, i read a bit about them this evening, seemed like something I could go for but I am a bit bothered by what their employees say about them on indeed, they sound very demanding & I am allergic to companies like that
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