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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="Blaithin" data-source="post: 5970252" data-attributes="member: 5764"><p>Overstocking and overgrazing is one thing. That can be managed no matter what environment one lives in. But your "I need to graze my grass every _____ often." is completely different to the "The grass needs to rest for ______ long." that's necessary here. Your needs are not Canadian needs, are not Australian needs, are not even UK needs.</p><p></p><p>Your needs focus on needing to rotate the animals frequently enough to keep on top of grass. Even now in your dry time it seems.</p><p></p><p>Conversely here, the needs are currently focusing on needing to ensure the animals have open water, sufficient feed taken to them, regular checks to ensure they aren't succumbing to cold. Right now if you own any amount of animals beyond a number that you can pitch feed over the fence for, you do need machinery of some sort. You do need to take feed to them, you can't take them to the feed. You do need shelter of some sort, even if it's just a tree line. You do need bedding of some sort, usually straw that some arable guy has robbed his field of.</p><p></p><p>What can't I do here that you're doing? I can't graze my cattle. I can't move them around and take water to them. I can't not regularly check them. Not right now, not this season.</p><p></p><p>Yes, in an ideal regenerative situation, even in Canada, stockpiling forage is a great way to prolong grazing. It is a great way to mobilize resources and keep them out on the pasture to help keep that ecosystem as complete as possible. But to be able to graze stockpiled forage all winter is a pipe dream and very rarely possible for a number of reasons, including severe temperatures and snow cover.</p><p></p><p>These needs are created because of where I live and yes, it's my decision to live where I do. It's a choice I make, but that doesn't change the fact of the needs.</p><p></p><p>"We can't do that here" isn't always an excuse, sometimes it's just a fact of life. Crofter and I aren't lesser farmers because we can't rotate our animals on pasture the majority of the year or because we have to supply feed to them. Those are just facts of where we live, just like in some areas irrigation is a fact. I would love to not have to go out at -40 and feed, water and check animals, truly I would. But that just can't be done here.</p><p></p><p>Yes, soil health is important, but more so to me is and always will be my animals health. My animals get first dibs at me keeping them healthy in the winter, not the soil. The soil is a secondary consideration if I can manage anything.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blaithin, post: 5970252, member: 5764"] Overstocking and overgrazing is one thing. That can be managed no matter what environment one lives in. But your "I need to graze my grass every _____ often." is completely different to the "The grass needs to rest for ______ long." that's necessary here. Your needs are not Canadian needs, are not Australian needs, are not even UK needs. Your needs focus on needing to rotate the animals frequently enough to keep on top of grass. Even now in your dry time it seems. Conversely here, the needs are currently focusing on needing to ensure the animals have open water, sufficient feed taken to them, regular checks to ensure they aren't succumbing to cold. Right now if you own any amount of animals beyond a number that you can pitch feed over the fence for, you do need machinery of some sort. You do need to take feed to them, you can't take them to the feed. You do need shelter of some sort, even if it's just a tree line. You do need bedding of some sort, usually straw that some arable guy has robbed his field of. What can't I do here that you're doing? I can't graze my cattle. I can't move them around and take water to them. I can't not regularly check them. Not right now, not this season. Yes, in an ideal regenerative situation, even in Canada, stockpiling forage is a great way to prolong grazing. It is a great way to mobilize resources and keep them out on the pasture to help keep that ecosystem as complete as possible. But to be able to graze stockpiled forage all winter is a pipe dream and very rarely possible for a number of reasons, including severe temperatures and snow cover. These needs are created because of where I live and yes, it's my decision to live where I do. It's a choice I make, but that doesn't change the fact of the needs. "We can't do that here" isn't always an excuse, sometimes it's just a fact of life. Crofter and I aren't lesser farmers because we can't rotate our animals on pasture the majority of the year or because we have to supply feed to them. Those are just facts of where we live, just like in some areas irrigation is a fact. I would love to not have to go out at -40 and feed, water and check animals, truly I would. But that just can't be done here. Yes, soil health is important, but more so to me is and always will be my animals health. My animals get first dibs at me keeping them healthy in the winter, not the soil. The soil is a secondary consideration if I can manage anything. [/QUOTE]
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