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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 7605435" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>it doesn't take very long for shrub bushes, ie blackthorn or bramble, to start creeping out from a hedge, if the land isn't properly farmed -and l cant define properly, but you know what l mean. Going back to savory's video, l can see what he means by 'reverting' back to scrub, seen it happen. How to avoid it, is rather an enigma, if you give ground a long recovery, you encourage shrubs, if you keep it it short, you drain your fertility, simply put. Perhaps we should aim to have 1 good cut, and the rest grazed, giving you a cut to 'reset', and a longish recovery to build up bulk, then your grazing does the rest, just as our fathers, or grandfathers did !</p><p> I don't know the answer, not sure anyone really does, we think we do, which is different. Each farm is unique, they have been farmed in different ways/methods over time, and evolved in slightly different ways. l have posted our changing scenario, on here, and tried to be honest about results, to be honest now, we are drowning in grass, we took 12 acres out of grazing this week, and cut Tuesday, today, we have to take another 10 acres out, to cut, it's gone to far ahead for the cows, pulling them out of their present field, the grass is waste high, next field, its just over knee high, and growing longer by the day. Most of that bulk, is through grass density, l cannot walk through it, and son struggles, the density, presumably encourages up ward growth, to the sun. A very different year to last, but l do think, that really focussing on getting our leys to match the ground, has been the biggest factor, and l think kilo's of seed per acre, needs reducing ! But our grazing rotation plans, have been knocked on the head !</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 7605435, member: 86168"] it doesn't take very long for shrub bushes, ie blackthorn or bramble, to start creeping out from a hedge, if the land isn't properly farmed -and l cant define properly, but you know what l mean. Going back to savory's video, l can see what he means by 'reverting' back to scrub, seen it happen. How to avoid it, is rather an enigma, if you give ground a long recovery, you encourage shrubs, if you keep it it short, you drain your fertility, simply put. Perhaps we should aim to have 1 good cut, and the rest grazed, giving you a cut to 'reset', and a longish recovery to build up bulk, then your grazing does the rest, just as our fathers, or grandfathers did ! I don't know the answer, not sure anyone really does, we think we do, which is different. Each farm is unique, they have been farmed in different ways/methods over time, and evolved in slightly different ways. l have posted our changing scenario, on here, and tried to be honest about results, to be honest now, we are drowning in grass, we took 12 acres out of grazing this week, and cut Tuesday, today, we have to take another 10 acres out, to cut, it's gone to far ahead for the cows, pulling them out of their present field, the grass is waste high, next field, its just over knee high, and growing longer by the day. Most of that bulk, is through grass density, l cannot walk through it, and son struggles, the density, presumably encourages up ward growth, to the sun. A very different year to last, but l do think, that really focussing on getting our leys to match the ground, has been the biggest factor, and l think kilo's of seed per acre, needs reducing ! But our grazing rotation plans, have been knocked on the head ! [/QUOTE]
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