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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 5996768" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>A real interesting morning with Iain Mitchell-Innes on the subject of holistic management, grazing, and animal health.</p><p>Unfortunately I couldn't spend the whole day there as I had a work commitment later in the day, but the jist of the talk was on grazing right to let stock maintain their energy/protein balance for healthy cattle - the main lesson being stocking density is pretty crucial - too low and they eat too much of the sward, but at higher densities they trample most of it.</p><p></p><p>Also his idea of stockpile grazing, was to estimate your non-growing season and in most instances, make your "round" length half of your expectation.</p><p>So in effect, you take it down by half, then half again - as your stock use different microbes to digest the top half as opposed to the less digestible bottom half.. if you make them eat the lot in one grazing they are thus much less efficient. </p><p>So they transition midwinter while they are likely already mobilising fat.</p><p></p><p>I also brought up the replacement of inputs with inputs, ie substituting spending on fertiliser with spending money putting in fancy species as opposed to managing what is native/naturalised on your landscape. </p><p>I think his response will please [USER=5961]@Henarar[/USER] </p><p>"you may as well take your money to town"</p><p>was a fairly popular comment on the day.</p><p></p><p>There was also an interesting point made about excess nitrogen and how the amines are knocked off the sugar and result in the ammonia accumulating in the renal system which explains the shorter lifespan and poorer health of many "pushed" cattle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 5996768, member: 63856"] A real interesting morning with Iain Mitchell-Innes on the subject of holistic management, grazing, and animal health. Unfortunately I couldn't spend the whole day there as I had a work commitment later in the day, but the jist of the talk was on grazing right to let stock maintain their energy/protein balance for healthy cattle - the main lesson being stocking density is pretty crucial - too low and they eat too much of the sward, but at higher densities they trample most of it. Also his idea of stockpile grazing, was to estimate your non-growing season and in most instances, make your "round" length half of your expectation. So in effect, you take it down by half, then half again - as your stock use different microbes to digest the top half as opposed to the less digestible bottom half.. if you make them eat the lot in one grazing they are thus much less efficient. So they transition midwinter while they are likely already mobilising fat. I also brought up the replacement of inputs with inputs, ie substituting spending on fertiliser with spending money putting in fancy species as opposed to managing what is native/naturalised on your landscape. I think his response will please [USER=5961]@Henarar[/USER] "you may as well take your money to town" was a fairly popular comment on the day. There was also an interesting point made about excess nitrogen and how the amines are knocked off the sugar and result in the ammonia accumulating in the renal system which explains the shorter lifespan and poorer health of many "pushed" cattle. [/QUOTE]
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