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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 5044112" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>Couldn't have said it better, really, that neatly sums up my own feelings on pasture management</p><p></p><p>Especially when I see reference to "NZ style grazing" - what the feck is that, I live here and have no idea what is meant by it;</p><p></p><p>Feeding animals with grass? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite90" alt=":hilarious:" title="Hilarious :hilarious:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":hilarious:" /></p><p></p><p>Pete style management though, I know what that is.</p><p>I know what outcomes I want and have a reasonable plan to achieve them, much of it really hinges on the FACT that my tractors- <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite17" alt=":love:" title="Love :love:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":love:" /> -are something I want to leave parked up.</p><p></p><p>It is a cost.</p><p>It compacts my soil.</p><p>It uses fuel that I can't make here, and turns it into carbon emissions and wheel marks.</p><p>It is a handy thing when you need a handy thing, but my preference is to have the land and pasture and stock working together to achieve the outcomes, not <em>have to</em> mow, spray stuff, drag stuff around to do that.</p><p></p><p>Even in saying that, I mow, and spray stuff, and drag stuff around, but that isn't how I want to be - the world is full of these type of farmers and it causes good stuff, and bad stuff as well.</p><p></p><p>I want to mould our own systems so they take less input from me: I can think and look and do some things for free, so that is my "focus" if I have one - fortunately grass based farming really is easy if we step back and stop trying to intervene so much, being such a natural system it doesn't take much imagination or knowledge to graze around things you want to happen - long steady food supply, plant reproduction, good water and nutrient cycling, minimising parasite pressure, making decisions to reduce expenses.</p><p></p><p>That is probably NZ style farming 101, "achieve more by doing less"</p><p> </p><p>-Australian style farming is probably even a better example as scale is bigger again, the climate is tougher again, so the landscapes are harder to put effective bandaids on if/when you cock up your management <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Hence it is that ranch model we follow, we could do exactly the same on land too high/ dry/ steep/ rocky/ big to tractor around it all, or anywhere else that plants grow for that matter.... it doesn't look like the Great Plains but looks can be deceptive, the running costs/acre are very much the same, other than things outside our control the animal costs are similar as well</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 5044112, member: 63856"] Couldn't have said it better, really, that neatly sums up my own feelings on pasture management Especially when I see reference to "NZ style grazing" - what the feck is that, I live here and have no idea what is meant by it; Feeding animals with grass? :hilarious: Pete style management though, I know what that is. I know what outcomes I want and have a reasonable plan to achieve them, much of it really hinges on the FACT that my tractors- :love: -are something I want to leave parked up. It is a cost. It compacts my soil. It uses fuel that I can't make here, and turns it into carbon emissions and wheel marks. It is a handy thing when you need a handy thing, but my preference is to have the land and pasture and stock working together to achieve the outcomes, not [I]have to[/I] mow, spray stuff, drag stuff around to do that. Even in saying that, I mow, and spray stuff, and drag stuff around, but that isn't how I want to be - the world is full of these type of farmers and it causes good stuff, and bad stuff as well. I want to mould our own systems so they take less input from me: I can think and look and do some things for free, so that is my "focus" if I have one - fortunately grass based farming really is easy if we step back and stop trying to intervene so much, being such a natural system it doesn't take much imagination or knowledge to graze around things you want to happen - long steady food supply, plant reproduction, good water and nutrient cycling, minimising parasite pressure, making decisions to reduce expenses. That is probably NZ style farming 101, "achieve more by doing less" -Australian style farming is probably even a better example as scale is bigger again, the climate is tougher again, so the landscapes are harder to put effective bandaids on if/when you cock up your management :) Hence it is that ranch model we follow, we could do exactly the same on land too high/ dry/ steep/ rocky/ big to tractor around it all, or anywhere else that plants grow for that matter.... it doesn't look like the Great Plains but looks can be deceptive, the running costs/acre are very much the same, other than things outside our control the animal costs are similar as well [/QUOTE]
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