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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 5050032" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>Well, you have possibly heard me speak of my mate Jeff, he has what I would call holistic management and integrated cropping and livestock..</p><p></p><p>They have a family farm, his daughter is about 20 and they pitch in, elder daughter is away doing something, uni anyway..</p><p></p><p>I think about 900 acres or so is in rotation and they have another area set aside just for grazing, basically he has a pea, CC, CC, WW, CC, and then a permanent pasture phase.</p><p>Peas are combined and the pea hay baled up, winter feed and sells a little to gardeners etc</p><p>Then he has a couple of cover crops, usually just mixes of home-saved seed, but has a lot of diversity in them, first one is mainly spring sown cereals and turnips and stuff, and clover</p><p>Second one assesses the level of groundcover, and is likely just rows of kale and swedes into the clover - winter stock food but lasts a fair bit of the year as well, as sheep are lambed on the grass block and then bought closer later</p><p>Crops are grazed until about spent and then chopped up with those speed disc/multidiscs and then winter wheat/winter barley</p><p>Stubbles are topped up with clover as necessary, I should mention that white clover is used as permanent growing groundcover; livestock are always present unless there is a cashcrop growing, it is not a "bare ground system" but a living system, and the cows/calf just cruise around in mobs eating behind a wire to achieve what he wants</p><p>After the wheat he throws on quite a bit of timothy as it gives him good easycare pasture along with all the clover- and they get winters off to just grow, with all the covercrop area year-round there isn't much need for skinning out pastures.</p><p></p><p>Always a lot going on but no really much of it is cultivation, quite a bit of drilling and speed-discing but the tractor does more hauling grain hours.</p><p>Bit of harvesting and lots of cattle and sheep - stock <strong>and </strong>cropping - as opposed to stock <strong>or </strong>cropping.</p><p>Mostly planning, but of course you can drill in the rain with living cover and light gear, if need be, so stuff happens on time.</p><p></p><p>I think they are the key points,</p><p>Having simultaneous rather than exclusive operations</p><p>Integration- maintaining the covers with livestock as tools - win win</p><p>Simple systems</p><p>Low overheads</p><p>Low machine hours help keep costs low</p><p>Lower output means inputs are lower still, it is a cost-based vs output-driven system, resilient to cereal volatility</p><p>Lifestyle</p><p>Profitable</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 5050032, member: 63856"] Well, you have possibly heard me speak of my mate Jeff, he has what I would call holistic management and integrated cropping and livestock.. They have a family farm, his daughter is about 20 and they pitch in, elder daughter is away doing something, uni anyway.. I think about 900 acres or so is in rotation and they have another area set aside just for grazing, basically he has a pea, CC, CC, WW, CC, and then a permanent pasture phase. Peas are combined and the pea hay baled up, winter feed and sells a little to gardeners etc Then he has a couple of cover crops, usually just mixes of home-saved seed, but has a lot of diversity in them, first one is mainly spring sown cereals and turnips and stuff, and clover Second one assesses the level of groundcover, and is likely just rows of kale and swedes into the clover - winter stock food but lasts a fair bit of the year as well, as sheep are lambed on the grass block and then bought closer later Crops are grazed until about spent and then chopped up with those speed disc/multidiscs and then winter wheat/winter barley Stubbles are topped up with clover as necessary, I should mention that white clover is used as permanent growing groundcover; livestock are always present unless there is a cashcrop growing, it is not a "bare ground system" but a living system, and the cows/calf just cruise around in mobs eating behind a wire to achieve what he wants After the wheat he throws on quite a bit of timothy as it gives him good easycare pasture along with all the clover- and they get winters off to just grow, with all the covercrop area year-round there isn't much need for skinning out pastures. Always a lot going on but no really much of it is cultivation, quite a bit of drilling and speed-discing but the tractor does more hauling grain hours. Bit of harvesting and lots of cattle and sheep - stock [B]and [/B]cropping - as opposed to stock [B]or [/B]cropping. Mostly planning, but of course you can drill in the rain with living cover and light gear, if need be, so stuff happens on time. I think they are the key points, Having simultaneous rather than exclusive operations Integration- maintaining the covers with livestock as tools - win win Simple systems Low overheads Low machine hours help keep costs low Lower output means inputs are lower still, it is a cost-based vs output-driven system, resilient to cereal volatility Lifestyle Profitable [/QUOTE]
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