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- NSW, Newstralya
I think that’s a very good point. We have to remeber our own needs and limitations and not be so rigid on our thinking. I have become so obsessed with the daily moves, never managed the twice a day, that I forgot the people in the equation.That's really the very point of holistic decisionmaking though isn't it...?
1000 head of cattle, in this context, you'd only shift them when you had the time, even if that's only once a week.
We are reasonably busy here, so something needs to give, and that's the farm at the moment. When the evenings get longer I'll do more, but as we're lambing I just let them go.
Isn’t it true what Del Ficke says: “Bankers, chemical dealers, equipment lots and seed dealers, I just felt everyone was making money but us. I think farmers suffer from Stockholm syndrome and sometimes they are friends with their captors.”
would it not fall into the standing hay category.So here's a question about stockpiling forage.
My grass was/is horrid. Awful. Chewed way to far down. Most of it I haven't had animals on since July. Some areas have come back quite well, some not as much. My plans were to not really let anyone touch it until it has a good start next year.
BUT
I was thinking the other day.
This time of year they say be careful what you graze and mow. The grasses are getting ready to go dormant, if they send resources towards growth right now instead of dormancy, it can be damaging. However, what about once they're truly dormant?
Now I live in an area that they do truly go dormant, not just slowed growth, absolutely no growth. In another month there won't be any risk of that grass thinking it should try to grow a bit more. It won't want to live for at least 6-7 months. Once it's in this completely dormant stage, how much will it damage the growth next spring to graze it? Once it's dormant, grazing the top lower than I'd like during growing shouldn't kill off the root system should it? The plant won't come out of dormancy and go "Oh no, I've been grazed more than 2/3!" and lose root mass, it will just use it's reserves it built for dormancy and grow. Correct?
I've also been putting off spreading my barn cleanings on the ground because I haven't wanted it to go 'Oh nutrients! Grow, grow, grow!' but I do swing back and forth on that one thinking I should be feeding it so it can get through winter as well Figured once it goes dormant I'll spread the barn stuff out to help give an insulating cover that will break down well and give a nice boost in the spring.
No clue, never done hay. And nobody around here hay's when there's snow on the ground, it's always cut when it's still growing season.would it not fall into the standing hay category.
It reverted back to crown management after '38, as per your very interesting filmAnyone seen this?
Wonder how Molesworth is doing now?
We don’t usually fall seed here.I don't imagine you'll harm it at all, @Blaithin, poor growing season management is really where you hurt plants.
Unless you plan on completely shaving it, and even then it won't matter in the great scheme of things, as your grass will already be "big and strong", and the soil will be able to handle a little stress.
With regards to your , I'd get it on sooner than later, I believe autumn/fall is the time to use most biologically alive amendments, for the same reasons you'd fall seed a pasture - there likely isn't going to be a shortage of moisture in the short term.
Thanks Pete. Sounds like a cool place.It reverted back to crown management after '38, as per your very interesting film
Department of Conservation now run it, they've replaced the sheep with cattle and it's returned to its former glory, bar the battle scars from the fires and overgrazing.
https://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/marlborough/places/molesworth-station/