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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="Jonny B88" data-source="post: 7432703" data-attributes="member: 10679"><p>Hi all. I just wanted to actually post on this thread as opposed to just read the comments. </p><p>The regenerative ag movement has made a bit of an impression on me since I really started reading into to it a few months ago.</p><p></p><p>I have been on the forum for a good while but sort of lost interest in a lot of the threads as they seemed to regurgitate a lot of the same things, however I always meant to tap into this thread but never did until about 5 months ago. Since then I’ve been reading the odd page throughout and just seemed to land on pages with stuff that struck a cord with me. Combined with other resources and things like the working cows podcast, mob grazing sights etc i have been really challenging by the paradigms i have been working with recently.</p><p></p><p>Basically what we are is a suckler with a small arable enterprise in NW Northern Ireland. We have a roughly 1100-1200ml annual rainfall. We have been expanding the cows the last few years and are calving down around 90 animals this spring from about half that 4 years ago. We have been rotationally paddock grazing with 18-21 day recoveries finishing a mixture of young bulls intensively and steers and heifers trying to utilise as much grass as possible. They are no doubt great methods to put beef on an animal and are profitable, however, I have also began to understand some of the shortcomings of fast rotations and intensive meal feeding. The latter being mainly a cost and carbon footprint negative.</p><p></p><p>The former is really interesting! With a 3 leave stage grass must be eaten or quality will evaporate mindset i am starting to see its drawbacks. Yes quality will be crap if you let it grow almost to head immersion, if you expect the animals to eat it to the dirt 1500kgs/dm. However it does seem obvious that if you don’t expect them to eat that low and leave a little performance shouldn’t be too badly compromised, perhaps even better. Parasite burden is also something i am really interested in. If most of the parasites live on the bottom 6-8 inches? Then eating above this will surely help. More diversity is a massive benefit I think we are missing out on and you all know those benefits. The soil benefits i think are the biggest potential posiitive and that in turn will create a positive impact on everything else.</p><p></p><p>Reducing our inputs from fert is of particular interest, i hate giving money away for it so i am hoping to adopt a grazing approach suited to not requiring it. Gradually is the approach i want to take.</p><p></p><p>so anyway I have many ideas i want to stick on here so please excuse if they have been covered already in the annals of this thread!</p><p></p><p>thanks</p><p>Jonny</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jonny B88, post: 7432703, member: 10679"] Hi all. I just wanted to actually post on this thread as opposed to just read the comments. The regenerative ag movement has made a bit of an impression on me since I really started reading into to it a few months ago. I have been on the forum for a good while but sort of lost interest in a lot of the threads as they seemed to regurgitate a lot of the same things, however I always meant to tap into this thread but never did until about 5 months ago. Since then I’ve been reading the odd page throughout and just seemed to land on pages with stuff that struck a cord with me. Combined with other resources and things like the working cows podcast, mob grazing sights etc i have been really challenging by the paradigms i have been working with recently. Basically what we are is a suckler with a small arable enterprise in NW Northern Ireland. We have a roughly 1100-1200ml annual rainfall. We have been expanding the cows the last few years and are calving down around 90 animals this spring from about half that 4 years ago. We have been rotationally paddock grazing with 18-21 day recoveries finishing a mixture of young bulls intensively and steers and heifers trying to utilise as much grass as possible. They are no doubt great methods to put beef on an animal and are profitable, however, I have also began to understand some of the shortcomings of fast rotations and intensive meal feeding. The latter being mainly a cost and carbon footprint negative. The former is really interesting! With a 3 leave stage grass must be eaten or quality will evaporate mindset i am starting to see its drawbacks. Yes quality will be crap if you let it grow almost to head immersion, if you expect the animals to eat it to the dirt 1500kgs/dm. However it does seem obvious that if you don’t expect them to eat that low and leave a little performance shouldn’t be too badly compromised, perhaps even better. Parasite burden is also something i am really interested in. If most of the parasites live on the bottom 6-8 inches? Then eating above this will surely help. More diversity is a massive benefit I think we are missing out on and you all know those benefits. The soil benefits i think are the biggest potential posiitive and that in turn will create a positive impact on everything else. Reducing our inputs from fert is of particular interest, i hate giving money away for it so i am hoping to adopt a grazing approach suited to not requiring it. Gradually is the approach i want to take. so anyway I have many ideas i want to stick on here so please excuse if they have been covered already in the annals of this thread! thanks Jonny [/QUOTE]
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