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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 7613212" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>Bare soil isn't "terrible" in a non-brittle environment, I mean it is like a bit of pigeon-poo on a solar panel in that it represents a loss of efficiency / lost opportunity.</p><p>You're right in wanting to address it, IMO, but if you keep grazing "total grazing" style then your longer recoveries will go a long way to filling in the gaps</p><p></p><p>We had some pretty open pasture here, it had been undersown under triticale or oats grown for silage and "swamped out" by it in places, so we put plantain seed on it and it took well</p><p></p><p>one thing to consider is that what we plant tend to be "bunch" or "tussock forming" grasses with upright habits, which by nature don't really spread out so the bare soil between plants is always there</p><p></p><p>it takes a while to see the effects of grazing tweaks filtering through, is what I mean by this big long piffle - what I see on dairies with high frequency grazing is that the month or so between grazings is barely enough for those interplant spaces to fill in, if soil was damaged in a previous grazing pass the grass is ready months before the soil is.</p><p></p><p>But we look at the grass and not the soil surface, if you see what I mean? This is why "resetting" is a term used quite a bit on here, what that often represents is just a change in frequency by storing the grass up longer and cutting it short - which you can just "do" with your grazing plan and density</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 7613212, member: 63856"] Bare soil isn't "terrible" in a non-brittle environment, I mean it is like a bit of pigeon-poo on a solar panel in that it represents a loss of efficiency / lost opportunity. You're right in wanting to address it, IMO, but if you keep grazing "total grazing" style then your longer recoveries will go a long way to filling in the gaps We had some pretty open pasture here, it had been undersown under triticale or oats grown for silage and "swamped out" by it in places, so we put plantain seed on it and it took well one thing to consider is that what we plant tend to be "bunch" or "tussock forming" grasses with upright habits, which by nature don't really spread out so the bare soil between plants is always there it takes a while to see the effects of grazing tweaks filtering through, is what I mean by this big long piffle - what I see on dairies with high frequency grazing is that the month or so between grazings is barely enough for those interplant spaces to fill in, if soil was damaged in a previous grazing pass the grass is ready months before the soil is. But we look at the grass and not the soil surface, if you see what I mean? This is why "resetting" is a term used quite a bit on here, what that often represents is just a change in frequency by storing the grass up longer and cutting it short - which you can just "do" with your grazing plan and density [/QUOTE]
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