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<blockquote data-quote="BSH" data-source="post: 7417" data-attributes="member: 371"><p>Yes I had meant three different crops on the basis that they can only be grazed once. It would be fine to grow just one crop in the interveening year and graze it once, but I pictured that doing the extra cropping would allow for more biomas to be returned over the period with added advantages of out wintering cattle. There are few crops that are summer grasses that we can use and my thought was a millet based summer crop that only takes 12-15 weeks to grow would be one of the few opportunities. Some can grow maize, but it needs to be cut for grain not silage and not many are able to do this and also it is not a good fit with autumn seeding. I have read and understand the principle of the mixes, and I think there could/should be some mixing in the proposed crop types, however, i think that with some weeds growing in amongst the crop there is more diversity than the planted seed suggests. By utilising the crops quickly the weeds wouldnt head and seed so no chem control need in crop. I would like to know more about Gabe Browns rotations etc, but from what I have seen on you tube etc it seems that he uses year long breaks between cash crops and uses the period by growing cover crops/feed for livestock. These thoughts are really only applicable if one has livestock and I am not sure that they stack up even then. For non livestock situations then it doesnt make sense for sure and growing only one crop( by which I mean a mix of plants) would be more sensible.I suppose we would need to know whether the combined trampled biomas and root die back was greater with three crops than one large biomas crop. I have said to Tom, that I thought there issues with his plans in terms of cover crops being mature at the right time for utilisation. I imagine that it would be difficult to have cover crops ready for grazing at all times of the year, so it needs covers that are weighted with say brassicas for utilisation in the autumn/winter or a rye /vetch type for use in march?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSH, post: 7417, member: 371"] Yes I had meant three different crops on the basis that they can only be grazed once. It would be fine to grow just one crop in the interveening year and graze it once, but I pictured that doing the extra cropping would allow for more biomas to be returned over the period with added advantages of out wintering cattle. There are few crops that are summer grasses that we can use and my thought was a millet based summer crop that only takes 12-15 weeks to grow would be one of the few opportunities. Some can grow maize, but it needs to be cut for grain not silage and not many are able to do this and also it is not a good fit with autumn seeding. I have read and understand the principle of the mixes, and I think there could/should be some mixing in the proposed crop types, however, i think that with some weeds growing in amongst the crop there is more diversity than the planted seed suggests. By utilising the crops quickly the weeds wouldnt head and seed so no chem control need in crop. I would like to know more about Gabe Browns rotations etc, but from what I have seen on you tube etc it seems that he uses year long breaks between cash crops and uses the period by growing cover crops/feed for livestock. These thoughts are really only applicable if one has livestock and I am not sure that they stack up even then. For non livestock situations then it doesnt make sense for sure and growing only one crop( by which I mean a mix of plants) would be more sensible.I suppose we would need to know whether the combined trampled biomas and root die back was greater with three crops than one large biomas crop. I have said to Tom, that I thought there issues with his plans in terms of cover crops being mature at the right time for utilisation. I imagine that it would be difficult to have cover crops ready for grazing at all times of the year, so it needs covers that are weighted with say brassicas for utilisation in the autumn/winter or a rye /vetch type for use in march? [/QUOTE]
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