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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 6077700" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>940mm average, 740 last year.</p><p>We're on a silty clay here so it is really susceptible to really being wrecked by inattention - to borrow from HCF "baseline reset syndrome" - many just accept that winter means mud and crack on with the abuse!</p><p>I guess it's just one of those things, people accept that sheep need drenched or grass needs fert, cereals need fungicides, etc without examining the "why is that???" too closely.</p><p>And usually the "why" with mud or poaching is twofold - no litter, too much time.</p><p></p><p>But the rate varies everywhere, for eg Roy can have carbon sitting around til the sun melts it because of the lack of moisture there.</p><p>My soils eat the stuff, literally, for breakfast because the moisture is compatible with the decomposers. So it's quite a task to maintain enough litter through the wet bit. Cold soil slows the rate.</p><p>Where Blaithin is, the snow will have an effect.</p><p></p><p>I think my task is to graze twice over winter: start with as much cover as we can muster, take the top half on the first graze and much of the remainder on the second graze.</p><p>There's the visible trampled summer stems, but under that again there's more cushion[ATTACH=full]776870[/ATTACH]</p><p>This is about 3cm thick, before you start actually finding worm casts, and the proper soil is under that. The other 3-4cm has been pulled away in this pic.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 6077700, member: 63856"] 940mm average, 740 last year. We're on a silty clay here so it is really susceptible to really being wrecked by inattention - to borrow from HCF "baseline reset syndrome" - many just accept that winter means mud and crack on with the abuse! I guess it's just one of those things, people accept that sheep need drenched or grass needs fert, cereals need fungicides, etc without examining the "why is that???" too closely. And usually the "why" with mud or poaching is twofold - no litter, too much time. But the rate varies everywhere, for eg Roy can have carbon sitting around til the sun melts it because of the lack of moisture there. My soils eat the stuff, literally, for breakfast because the moisture is compatible with the decomposers. So it's quite a task to maintain enough litter through the wet bit. Cold soil slows the rate. Where Blaithin is, the snow will have an effect. I think my task is to graze twice over winter: start with as much cover as we can muster, take the top half on the first graze and much of the remainder on the second graze. There's the visible trampled summer stems, but under that again there's more cushion[ATTACH=full]776870[/ATTACH] This is about 3cm thick, before you start actually finding worm casts, and the proper soil is under that. The other 3-4cm has been pulled away in this pic. [/QUOTE]
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