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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="hendrebc" data-source="post: 6632643" data-attributes="member: 70166"><p>I think that is what I will do while I can still get some growth so for the next month or so. I'm not taking the grass right down only to about 1800kg so there is plenty left behind. Might go down a bit lower once we get some prolonged cold weather. </p><p></p><p>If I grazed as low as I was advised it would still leave a 3cm long dense carpet of green so still not leaving bare soil and it is still protected. Just maybe not as much as I was expecting to leave. </p><p>An earlier spring would be very advantageous. Even a week would make a big difference. If it warms up and grows a week earlier that's a week less I have to keep them off the grazing. Not worried about the ground drying up either. At least not until spring. Plenty of time to capture some moisture later on. Theres to much of it now it's running out the ground in springs coming out of the hillsides so I wouldn't be able to catch any more anyway. </p><p>It's the kick in the pants to the grass and it's root reserves I'm most worried about. If I look after the grass then everything else, above and below ground, will be ok. I will be leaving some behind its just a matter of working out how much.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Leaving behind about 1800kg now which is plenty for the soil and to keep the sheep happy not getting hungry or grazing too low. I had planned to go back and take it down to about 1500kg once the ewes were safely in lamb in about a month or so taking me through to Christmas/new year. Maybe we will have to skip out the second round and just go into the silage and turnips a bit sooner. But fields are lasting a bit longer than expected so maybe I will reach middle/end of December without needing the second round. I wouldn't be worried but my main crop of turnips has been disappointing thanks to the slugs so won't last quite as long as I was hoping. I will have to see how it goes over the next month and then think again about what I'll be doing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hendrebc, post: 6632643, member: 70166"] I think that is what I will do while I can still get some growth so for the next month or so. I'm not taking the grass right down only to about 1800kg so there is plenty left behind. Might go down a bit lower once we get some prolonged cold weather. If I grazed as low as I was advised it would still leave a 3cm long dense carpet of green so still not leaving bare soil and it is still protected. Just maybe not as much as I was expecting to leave. An earlier spring would be very advantageous. Even a week would make a big difference. If it warms up and grows a week earlier that's a week less I have to keep them off the grazing. Not worried about the ground drying up either. At least not until spring. Plenty of time to capture some moisture later on. Theres to much of it now it's running out the ground in springs coming out of the hillsides so I wouldn't be able to catch any more anyway. It's the kick in the pants to the grass and it's root reserves I'm most worried about. If I look after the grass then everything else, above and below ground, will be ok. I will be leaving some behind its just a matter of working out how much. Leaving behind about 1800kg now which is plenty for the soil and to keep the sheep happy not getting hungry or grazing too low. I had planned to go back and take it down to about 1500kg once the ewes were safely in lamb in about a month or so taking me through to Christmas/new year. Maybe we will have to skip out the second round and just go into the silage and turnips a bit sooner. But fields are lasting a bit longer than expected so maybe I will reach middle/end of December without needing the second round. I wouldn't be worried but my main crop of turnips has been disappointing thanks to the slugs so won't last quite as long as I was hoping. I will have to see how it goes over the next month and then think again about what I'll be doing. [/QUOTE]
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