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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="exmoor dave" data-source="post: 6673123" data-attributes="member: 623"><p>Talking it over with you the other week and seeing what you're doing was abit of a light bulb moment for me, I'd already been thinking that the amount of breeding stock we are carrying here is a major stumbling block to our wintering capacity.</p><p></p><p>You put it well in your last paragraph, there is abit of sentimentality, but overwhelmingly its inflexibility.</p><p>A good example of this is us finishing all our cattle, we devised a plan (or more had the reality of long term TB <em>Force </em>us to get our planning caps on), we've got our plan in place, we've mega improved our skills at finishing cattle in the last 3 years.</p><p>But we're now really inflexible (in big part to tb restrictions) because we're always carrying alot of cattle of all classes, our plan is always at least a year in advance because we've got to assume we'll still be under restrictions (IMO too many people have brushes with TB but continue to always plan for the best rather than hope for the best but plan for the worse, then get in a world of pain when they get hit by a breakdown in the autumn when they need to destock). </p><p></p><p>Which then neatly leads to your point about moving stock to feed rather than feed to stock..... like how apparently it used to be (according to dad), here we are finishing cattle on two upland farms, using bought in concentrates, while there's hundreds of thousands of acres of good lowland arable ground that could do the job miles better.</p><p>But it's treading a fine line pushing the idea, because we (as hill farmers) don't want to see breeding stock established in arable country.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="exmoor dave, post: 6673123, member: 623"] Talking it over with you the other week and seeing what you're doing was abit of a light bulb moment for me, I'd already been thinking that the amount of breeding stock we are carrying here is a major stumbling block to our wintering capacity. You put it well in your last paragraph, there is abit of sentimentality, but overwhelmingly its inflexibility. A good example of this is us finishing all our cattle, we devised a plan (or more had the reality of long term TB [I]Force [/I]us to get our planning caps on), we've got our plan in place, we've mega improved our skills at finishing cattle in the last 3 years. But we're now really inflexible (in big part to tb restrictions) because we're always carrying alot of cattle of all classes, our plan is always at least a year in advance because we've got to assume we'll still be under restrictions (IMO too many people have brushes with TB but continue to always plan for the best rather than hope for the best but plan for the worse, then get in a world of pain when they get hit by a breakdown in the autumn when they need to destock). Which then neatly leads to your point about moving stock to feed rather than feed to stock..... like how apparently it used to be (according to dad), here we are finishing cattle on two upland farms, using bought in concentrates, while there's hundreds of thousands of acres of good lowland arable ground that could do the job miles better. But it's treading a fine line pushing the idea, because we (as hill farmers) don't want to see breeding stock established in arable country. [/QUOTE]
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