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- NSW, Newstralya
Err, just remember, reducing numbers of livestock is also a very real option
Very common here to manipulate numbers in relation to available feed
Very common here to manipulate numbers in relation to available feed
"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
- Thread starter Kiwi Pete
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- Owaka, New Zealand
This is true!
I would consider 35 to 40 grazing cells in our type of conditions to be about ideal
Interesting to note our place once ran 160 ewes on 100 ac but now handles about 150 cattle ish and about 300 lambs on a yearly average basis - sometimes productivity can benefit by adding stock or adding stock classes, a balance of cattle and sheep has proven to be hugely beneficial to the land.
Well thats the case here anyway, the cattle have made their own feed, pretty much "build it and they will come" works both ways... put them there and they will arrange their resources
It is all about energy and community and what the bankbook says.
Bale graze it. Quite a few farmers here practice this. Allows the grass to grow back well as a stockpile so the animals have two options once placed in the field.Then I'd have to bale it, wrap it and cart it burning more diesel
I've enough of that to do in a week or 2 without conserving this bit as well
Still burning the fuel to swath and bale it of course, but not carting it or feeding it out.
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
- Location
- Cornwall
They reckon Dingos are the only “native” animal that will compete with and/or kill feral cats; same with foxes. Trouble is Dingos are threatened by feral dogs in terms of their DNA being diluted and graziers are reluctant to encourage Dingos around stock. One of those instances where native fauna could offer a partial solution? Tricky!
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
And feral dogs are a huge problem, especially just north of here around the New England Tablelands . . .
- Location
- Cornwall
Keep shooting the barstewards I suppose!
Cats are problem here too. People think theyre doing good by feeding the birds in their gardens and then they turn their pet out to eat them
Then complain that said cat brings dead birds in the house
I hate cats
We have a similar situaion to the dingoes jere as well. Grey squirrels are an introduced pest and they outcompete out native reds for food and infect them with a virus that the greys are resistant to. Pine martens used to be common but were almost wiped out by trapping quite a long time ago. Reaserch shows that pine martens will hunt down and eat grey squirrels but the reds can avoid them somehow and their numbers are increasing were the martens are living. But no one wants a massive mustelid roaming around killing everything else as well just to benefit the ine species even though its very rare. Difficult one
Then complain that said cat brings dead birds in the house
I hate cats
We have a similar situaion to the dingoes jere as well. Grey squirrels are an introduced pest and they outcompete out native reds for food and infect them with a virus that the greys are resistant to. Pine martens used to be common but were almost wiped out by trapping quite a long time ago. Reaserch shows that pine martens will hunt down and eat grey squirrels but the reds can avoid them somehow and their numbers are increasing were the martens are living. But no one wants a massive mustelid roaming around killing everything else as well just to benefit the ine species even though its very rare. Difficult one
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
I never said it was easy . . .
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
You going?
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
dunno yet
I would like to
have finished reading Call of the Reed Warbler, great book, but has left me "questioning my faith" in modern agriculture, I feel like a Priest who is starting to question if God exists . . .
Matt Barton I know personally, he was one of the trainers on the RCS course I did & we got on pretty well ( he now an FB friend as well )
the Haggerty's are some awesome farmers in WA who went from something like 600 acres to 16000 acres, farming pure sand but using sheep to introduce / improve the biology of their cropping soils
Walter Jehne - he's the bloke @Sheila Cooke was promoting giving talks in the UK
Tim Wright - he was one of the very early practitioners of holistic grazing in Australia, from the New England Tablelands area not far north of here
very interesting ensemble, be good to go
I would like to
have finished reading Call of the Reed Warbler, great book, but has left me "questioning my faith" in modern agriculture, I feel like a Priest who is starting to question if God exists . . .
Matt Barton I know personally, he was one of the trainers on the RCS course I did & we got on pretty well ( he now an FB friend as well
)the Haggerty's are some awesome farmers in WA who went from something like 600 acres to 16000 acres, farming pure sand but using sheep to introduce / improve the biology of their cropping soils
Walter Jehne - he's the bloke @Sheila Cooke was promoting giving talks in the UK
Tim Wright - he was one of the very early practitioners of holistic grazing in Australia, from the New England Tablelands area not far north of here
very interesting ensemble, be good to go
Hell id like to go to that too!dunno yet
I would like to
have finished reading Call of the Reed Warbler, great book, but has left me "questioning my faith" in modern agriculture, I feel like a Priest who is starting to question if God exists . . .
Matt Barton I know personally, he was one of the trainers on the RCS course I did & we got on pretty well ( he now an FB friend as well
the Haggerty's are some awesome farmers in WA who went from something like 600 acres to 16000 acres, farming pure sand but using sheep to introduce / improve the biology of their cropping soils
Walter Jehne - he's the bloke @Sheila Cooke was promoting giving talks in the UK
Tim Wright - he was one of the very early practitioners of holistic grazing in Australia, from the New England Tablelands area not far north of here
very interesting ensemble, be good to go
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
Theyre cheaper than i tbought they would be
Early hineymoon to new york in 10 days
that will clean my bank account out for a while though
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- NSW, Newstralya
enjoy
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
Early honeymoon? Care to explain THAT oxymoron?Theyre cheaper than i tbought they would be
Early hineymoon to new york in 10 days
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
You're not alone but after last June's kiwi adventure I'd be castrated on my return
I've promised Mel that the next travel is definitely hers.