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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 8201539" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>our 2nd hand vaderstaat drill, recouped its cost in a year. The judgement comes in what you can do yourself, with the kit, or if its left to a contractor, we are lucky here, plenty of farmers sons, looking to earn a bit 'extra' with dads kit, they are cheaper !</p><p></p><p>Its a bit more fundamental than that, unless you grow annual crops, there is a lot that can be achieved by management. Take out annual cropping, leaves mainly grass left, which, according to the sales reps/firms, needs replacing every few years, and pp is crap, which has been preached for years. The reasons to reseed, are basically 'good' grasses are eaten out, and dead. Rotational, or mob grazing, will extend their life. We strip graze, with a back fence, that back fence stops the cattle grazing back over, then, they select only the choicest grasses, which then cannot compete with the 'bad' grasses, they have a head start, simple sense really, but took yrs for me to cotton on. We have achieved good results, by very tight controlled grazing, taking older leys, right down to the soil, for 24 hrs only, the 'good' grasses, are on equal terms, with the bad.</p><p></p><p>So, now, we set stock old leys, because we have taken on new land, where elec fences, are not allowed !</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 8201539, member: 86168"] our 2nd hand vaderstaat drill, recouped its cost in a year. The judgement comes in what you can do yourself, with the kit, or if its left to a contractor, we are lucky here, plenty of farmers sons, looking to earn a bit 'extra' with dads kit, they are cheaper ! Its a bit more fundamental than that, unless you grow annual crops, there is a lot that can be achieved by management. Take out annual cropping, leaves mainly grass left, which, according to the sales reps/firms, needs replacing every few years, and pp is crap, which has been preached for years. The reasons to reseed, are basically 'good' grasses are eaten out, and dead. Rotational, or mob grazing, will extend their life. We strip graze, with a back fence, that back fence stops the cattle grazing back over, then, they select only the choicest grasses, which then cannot compete with the 'bad' grasses, they have a head start, simple sense really, but took yrs for me to cotton on. We have achieved good results, by very tight controlled grazing, taking older leys, right down to the soil, for 24 hrs only, the 'good' grasses, are on equal terms, with the bad. So, now, we set stock old leys, because we have taken on new land, where elec fences, are not allowed ! [/QUOTE]
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