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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 5672810" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>That's absolutely correct, but again it is to some degree a lack of livestock that makes the fencing and lots of water points so necessary (as an example)</p><p>Say on my 100 acres I keep 100 cows but to herd them I fence up my area into acre cells, which is where most people would be looking to go to maximise impact - what happens then if we go to 1000 cows for 2 months then they all trudge off next door, and then to the next neighbour down the road?</p><p>What about 12000 cows for 2 days?</p><p></p><p>If (hypothetically again) the whole of the Catlins area combined our cattle, instead of behaving like 3 year-olds and keeping a few each, we could manage them properly that they would never run out of somewhere to be next, and probably run 3x the head of cattle as a result?</p><p>Again, I say it is a time issue, not a number issue. I wouldn't need to be subdividing my paddocks into 1 acre cells if I had temporary use of 12000 cattle.</p><p></p><p>I think if we didn't all have this cute concept of boundaries it would soon become apparent the <em>district</em> could handle a lot more cattle, and was overstaffed, and didn't cooperate nearly enough to get the work done.</p><p>Maybe it is easier to visualise it happening in NZ where we have sort of adapted this type of arrangement for survival, to a certain degree. There are a huge number of sheep farmers here who never finish a lamb.</p><p></p><p>Effectively, by putting <em>boundaries up</em>, it actually means disease in the national herd is much much harder to manage on a <em>whole</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 5672810, member: 63856"] That's absolutely correct, but again it is to some degree a lack of livestock that makes the fencing and lots of water points so necessary (as an example) Say on my 100 acres I keep 100 cows but to herd them I fence up my area into acre cells, which is where most people would be looking to go to maximise impact - what happens then if we go to 1000 cows for 2 months then they all trudge off next door, and then to the next neighbour down the road? What about 12000 cows for 2 days? If (hypothetically again) the whole of the Catlins area combined our cattle, instead of behaving like 3 year-olds and keeping a few each, we could manage them properly that they would never run out of somewhere to be next, and probably run 3x the head of cattle as a result? Again, I say it is a time issue, not a number issue. I wouldn't need to be subdividing my paddocks into 1 acre cells if I had temporary use of 12000 cattle. I think if we didn't all have this cute concept of boundaries it would soon become apparent the [I]district[/I] could handle a lot more cattle, and was overstaffed, and didn't cooperate nearly enough to get the work done. Maybe it is easier to visualise it happening in NZ where we have sort of adapted this type of arrangement for survival, to a certain degree. There are a huge number of sheep farmers here who never finish a lamb. Effectively, by putting [I]boundaries up[/I], it actually means disease in the national herd is much much harder to manage on a [I]whole[/I] [/QUOTE]
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