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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="Global ovine" data-source="post: 6546974" data-attributes="member: 493"><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">"Days in the sun" certainly influences mineral content until the leaf age gets into maturity and the plant then starts turning it off, such as Ryegrass once it starts to produce another tiller after the 3rd leaf is mature. However if the soil has a naturally low level of any TE, all the sun in the world will not create more of what is already low. Both fast growth of both pasture plants and animals consuming them dilutes the TEs/kg DM. Farms with the highest output of product run into TE problems first in their locality.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">As we"farmers" of soils and sunshine grow more DM, so it increases the drain on TE reserves. The lucky farmers are those whose soils are derived from parent materials high in TEs. But huge pastoral and arable regions around the world have soils derived from sandstone, or alluviums predominantly from eroded sandstones which are notoriously low in most TEs.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Be very careful if supplementing via drinking water, getting the decimal place wrong can have adverse effects with some TEs are the T stands for TRACE. A dosetron is excellent kit if using reticulated stock water. However applying them to pastures is very easy, iodine excluded due to its solubility and loss via leaching.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Global ovine, post: 6546974, member: 493"] [COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]"Days in the sun" certainly influences mineral content until the leaf age gets into maturity and the plant then starts turning it off, such as Ryegrass once it starts to produce another tiller after the 3rd leaf is mature. However if the soil has a naturally low level of any TE, all the sun in the world will not create more of what is already low. Both fast growth of both pasture plants and animals consuming them dilutes the TEs/kg DM. Farms with the highest output of product run into TE problems first in their locality. As we"farmers" of soils and sunshine grow more DM, so it increases the drain on TE reserves. The lucky farmers are those whose soils are derived from parent materials high in TEs. But huge pastoral and arable regions around the world have soils derived from sandstone, or alluviums predominantly from eroded sandstones which are notoriously low in most TEs. Be very careful if supplementing via drinking water, getting the decimal place wrong can have adverse effects with some TEs are the T stands for TRACE. A dosetron is excellent kit if using reticulated stock water. However applying them to pastures is very easy, iodine excluded due to its solubility and loss via leaching.[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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