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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 7279003" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>there tanks are full, exactly what fancy nutritionists attempt to achieve, only they bring in 'other' foods, at a high cost, although for the dairy, forage will not supply fuel, to produce the milk, at different times of the year, yet at other times, like spring, it over produces, shown by the loose shite, ejected from the rear end, at some speed,</p><p> Nutritionists try and keep the grass, at the same spring value, as long as possible, but, why ? Anyone will tell you, spring grass flies out the rear end of stock, making it obvious, that it is not staying inside a cow, long enough to be fully utilised, therefore, a proportion is 'wasted', and returned to the sward. One of the lessons learn't in this summers drought, is by leaving longer residuals, you get more root strength, which in turn, makes the plant stronger, and more resistant to that drought. Farming is like a wheel, it is forever turning, you solve one problem, and another one appears, and so on. It is how you solve the problems, that depends on the size of the next one, with the example of spring grass, yes, we want to produce cheap milk from it, but forget the plant is maximising growth, to reproduce itself, by seeding, all we do, is stop it seeding. Ignoring the fact, the plant has to survive as well, we are just 'draining' it, of its life blood. I have never seen any figure, as to how long a grass will live, if you just 'leave it', we usually kill it off. This summer will be different for us, as we are taking on some older pasture, which we cant plough, but can overseed, no herbs, they look like weeds, to the owner !</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 7279003, member: 86168"] there tanks are full, exactly what fancy nutritionists attempt to achieve, only they bring in 'other' foods, at a high cost, although for the dairy, forage will not supply fuel, to produce the milk, at different times of the year, yet at other times, like spring, it over produces, shown by the loose shite, ejected from the rear end, at some speed, Nutritionists try and keep the grass, at the same spring value, as long as possible, but, why ? Anyone will tell you, spring grass flies out the rear end of stock, making it obvious, that it is not staying inside a cow, long enough to be fully utilised, therefore, a proportion is 'wasted', and returned to the sward. One of the lessons learn't in this summers drought, is by leaving longer residuals, you get more root strength, which in turn, makes the plant stronger, and more resistant to that drought. Farming is like a wheel, it is forever turning, you solve one problem, and another one appears, and so on. It is how you solve the problems, that depends on the size of the next one, with the example of spring grass, yes, we want to produce cheap milk from it, but forget the plant is maximising growth, to reproduce itself, by seeding, all we do, is stop it seeding. Ignoring the fact, the plant has to survive as well, we are just 'draining' it, of its life blood. I have never seen any figure, as to how long a grass will live, if you just 'leave it', we usually kill it off. This summer will be different for us, as we are taking on some older pasture, which we cant plough, but can overseed, no herbs, they look like weeds, to the owner ! [/QUOTE]
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