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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 7574361" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>it certainly ought to, getting in our cows this afternoon was painfully slow, they browsed all the way in, on long dry weed grass, cowparsley, r champion, and few more, quick enough to leave the field though. That's telling me, they are looking for something more than grass, perhaps cowparsley is named for a reason. You would think in a true diverse mix, there would be something that suits their palate, certainly they like plantain, and chicory, even if it tastes a bit sh1tty. We have a lot more to learn, or relearn, yet. Goats and to a degree sheep, are browsers, and even after a few 1000 yrs, still are, yet cattle are grazers, and have been for 1000's years, something is missing, since the start of modern farming, we have concentrated on production, and more and more yield, and today we have a cow that bears little resemblance to it's forerunner, pre 1940, and as with pigs and chicken, we now decide what they eat, basically for cows it's prg clover and maize silage, with a processed concoction in the parlour, they eat and produce on that, somehow l think we have 'lost' out on the way, herbs contain more minerals, have medicinal properties, and add a different flavour to the mix, but it's classed as old fashioned bullsh1t. Now, more than ever, we have to get our grazing, and production from forage, as cheap as we possibly can, for as much as we can, as it looks like our guv is going to sacrifice us, for cheap imported food. What regen farming does, very successfully, is rebuild the fertility of the soil, in a way modern imputs cannot do, they were designed to feed a crop, what it needs, for a period of time, the herbs etc, may, or may not have a measurable impact on production, but cattle love them, and a contented animal will always do better, if nothing else.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 7574361, member: 86168"] it certainly ought to, getting in our cows this afternoon was painfully slow, they browsed all the way in, on long dry weed grass, cowparsley, r champion, and few more, quick enough to leave the field though. That's telling me, they are looking for something more than grass, perhaps cowparsley is named for a reason. You would think in a true diverse mix, there would be something that suits their palate, certainly they like plantain, and chicory, even if it tastes a bit sh1tty. We have a lot more to learn, or relearn, yet. Goats and to a degree sheep, are browsers, and even after a few 1000 yrs, still are, yet cattle are grazers, and have been for 1000's years, something is missing, since the start of modern farming, we have concentrated on production, and more and more yield, and today we have a cow that bears little resemblance to it's forerunner, pre 1940, and as with pigs and chicken, we now decide what they eat, basically for cows it's prg clover and maize silage, with a processed concoction in the parlour, they eat and produce on that, somehow l think we have 'lost' out on the way, herbs contain more minerals, have medicinal properties, and add a different flavour to the mix, but it's classed as old fashioned bullsh1t. Now, more than ever, we have to get our grazing, and production from forage, as cheap as we possibly can, for as much as we can, as it looks like our guv is going to sacrifice us, for cheap imported food. What regen farming does, very successfully, is rebuild the fertility of the soil, in a way modern imputs cannot do, they were designed to feed a crop, what it needs, for a period of time, the herbs etc, may, or may not have a measurable impact on production, but cattle love them, and a contented animal will always do better, if nothing else. [/QUOTE]
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