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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 7270219" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>You can do whatever monitoring you see fit, your example of budgeting grass is still a good one despite what I may say about it.</p><p></p><p>All I'm getting at is that we're needing ¼ha/day for the moo mob, they have about 15ha that they're in charge of maintaining. So you could measure grass or routinely weigh and go off your DLWG, or go by litter cover, leaf stage or a combination of these.</p><p></p><p>Monitoring is your feedback loop to prove that you aren't getting <em>it wrong, </em>it's important to assume that everything you do is "wrong" and prove the opposite.</p><p>The sheep mob is on the other bit of the farm with some cattle and because they're staying the same I have them on a fairly set rotation of a few easily-subdivided paddocks and the block we had the cattle on - so I can change their cell size or the time</p><p></p><p>we need more flexibility for the moo mob because that mob size is less predictable, we had 5 steers leave on Tuesday morning and know the others will be here to January so I might nip to the saleyards next week and buy a few animals.</p><p>Grazing may come up and it may not but I need a higher stocking rate "now" because various things indicate that - namely our cattle are putting on too much weight so we need to get more of them or we're missing an efficiency on a per hectare basis.</p><p></p><p>We have 40 head gaining 2.48kg/day so we really need 80 head gaining 2.28/day, incredible when you think that a hectare of "old weedy grasses" is growing 400kg of meat and fat and we're still leaving some of it there <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😳" title="Flushed face :flushed:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f633.png" data-shortname=":flushed:" /></p><p></p><p>Hence the longer recovery and longer grass "doesn't matter" but it's important to check to tweak your grazing plan. I would keep the feed budget/wedge and grazing plan in different hands all the same.</p><p></p><p>One is really only to do with where the stock have been and are and go to; the other is to do with how many animals and haybales you should have</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 7270219, member: 63856"] You can do whatever monitoring you see fit, your example of budgeting grass is still a good one despite what I may say about it. All I'm getting at is that we're needing ¼ha/day for the moo mob, they have about 15ha that they're in charge of maintaining. So you could measure grass or routinely weigh and go off your DLWG, or go by litter cover, leaf stage or a combination of these. Monitoring is your feedback loop to prove that you aren't getting [I]it wrong, [/I]it's important to assume that everything you do is "wrong" and prove the opposite. The sheep mob is on the other bit of the farm with some cattle and because they're staying the same I have them on a fairly set rotation of a few easily-subdivided paddocks and the block we had the cattle on - so I can change their cell size or the time we need more flexibility for the moo mob because that mob size is less predictable, we had 5 steers leave on Tuesday morning and know the others will be here to January so I might nip to the saleyards next week and buy a few animals. Grazing may come up and it may not but I need a higher stocking rate "now" because various things indicate that - namely our cattle are putting on too much weight so we need to get more of them or we're missing an efficiency on a per hectare basis. We have 40 head gaining 2.48kg/day so we really need 80 head gaining 2.28/day, incredible when you think that a hectare of "old weedy grasses" is growing 400kg of meat and fat and we're still leaving some of it there 😳 Hence the longer recovery and longer grass "doesn't matter" but it's important to check to tweak your grazing plan. I would keep the feed budget/wedge and grazing plan in different hands all the same. One is really only to do with where the stock have been and are and go to; the other is to do with how many animals and haybales you should have [/QUOTE]
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