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Holistic Farming
"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="Agrispeed" data-source="post: 5750060" data-attributes="member: 10619"><p>About 1200mm. But it's consistent throughout the year; August normally has the same average rainfall as December. </p><p></p><p>being warm and wet (we get 1 or 2 frosts a year) our farming system is based on expecting rain every 3 or so days this year we had less than half our average rainfall - 1 rain event; less than 6mm in July, June-August was 20% of average rainfall, which is something we really were not prepared for. Most of our grazing is herbal leys and they stood up much better than the more traditional leys to both the wet spring and the dry summer. I'm hoping that some different, more traditional(?) grass mixes will help with what looks like a period of less reliable weather, and in my experience, they don't perform any worse, certainly under organic management anyway, where ryegrass is always a bit limited by lack of applied nitrogen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Agrispeed, post: 5750060, member: 10619"] About 1200mm. But it's consistent throughout the year; August normally has the same average rainfall as December. being warm and wet (we get 1 or 2 frosts a year) our farming system is based on expecting rain every 3 or so days this year we had less than half our average rainfall - 1 rain event; less than 6mm in July, June-August was 20% of average rainfall, which is something we really were not prepared for. Most of our grazing is herbal leys and they stood up much better than the more traditional leys to both the wet spring and the dry summer. I'm hoping that some different, more traditional(?) grass mixes will help with what looks like a period of less reliable weather, and in my experience, they don't perform any worse, certainly under organic management anyway, where ryegrass is always a bit limited by lack of applied nitrogen. [/QUOTE]
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