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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 7315560" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>Hi Dan! It's pretty much a layer on the surface. </p><p></p><p>We're not in a hurry for it to disappear because "this is it" (in some respects) as far as having bulk lignified grass goes. </p><p>We want to leave a thickish layer so new tillers have to take over (succession) as opposed to keeping the old tillers going to be grazed in 45 days time. </p><p></p><p>Hopefully they've had enough of a crimp to hay off and rain + time will turn it to a compost layer on the surface, which will feed and protect the horsepower underneath</p><p></p><p>With our planned destocking beginning next month and that we'll only have a skeleton landscaping crew by March, we're switching rapidly from around a 45-50 day planned recovery to 90-120 days - we need "a reset" to enable this length of rest.</p><p></p><p>If we don't get all over it now, long story short, we'll just have a heap of stemmy stuff that isn't actually <em>growing</em>, if it isn't in recovery mode then the plants aren't really pushing out the exudates as they could be. </p><p></p><p>Half the solar panel is effectively "on the dole"</p><p></p><p>Some will hopefully come back in time for 'aftermath heading' kinda like second-cut silage, so the later flowering species like timothy and ryegrass and cocksfoot will add to the seedbank</p><p>the earlier flowering plants like meadowgrass and dogatail and fog won't get so much opportunity</p><p></p><p>much the same as a tidy-up with the topping machine except that leaves the residue on top of growing leaves, this is more like you flat-rolled it 8 times without the weight and compaction. </p><p></p><p>We only used about 20kg/m² to get this laid down which in groundpressure terms, is a very light topping tractor!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 7315560, member: 63856"] Hi Dan! It's pretty much a layer on the surface. We're not in a hurry for it to disappear because "this is it" (in some respects) as far as having bulk lignified grass goes. We want to leave a thickish layer so new tillers have to take over (succession) as opposed to keeping the old tillers going to be grazed in 45 days time. Hopefully they've had enough of a crimp to hay off and rain + time will turn it to a compost layer on the surface, which will feed and protect the horsepower underneath With our planned destocking beginning next month and that we'll only have a skeleton landscaping crew by March, we're switching rapidly from around a 45-50 day planned recovery to 90-120 days - we need "a reset" to enable this length of rest. If we don't get all over it now, long story short, we'll just have a heap of stemmy stuff that isn't actually [I]growing[/I], if it isn't in recovery mode then the plants aren't really pushing out the exudates as they could be. Half the solar panel is effectively "on the dole" Some will hopefully come back in time for 'aftermath heading' kinda like second-cut silage, so the later flowering species like timothy and ryegrass and cocksfoot will add to the seedbank the earlier flowering plants like meadowgrass and dogatail and fog won't get so much opportunity much the same as a tidy-up with the topping machine except that leaves the residue on top of growing leaves, this is more like you flat-rolled it 8 times without the weight and compaction. We only used about 20kg/m² to get this laid down which in groundpressure terms, is a very light topping tractor! [/QUOTE]
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