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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 7305871" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>What sort of impact are you getting and how much litter/wasted feed are you putting down?</p><p></p><p>Please don't take this at all the wrong way (because this was us!!) but what we were doing was 'animals behind a wire' and 'leaving some grass behind'</p><p></p><p>It wasn't actually changing anything though</p><p></p><p>We were still farming</p><p>We still didn't want lots of weeds</p><p>We still kept grazing all the time</p><p></p><p>We were NOT creating herd impact with our stock density increase, and we weren't resting pastures nearly enough, and we still overgrazed. </p><p>So the same thing happened, as what you said.... <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤏" title="Pinching hand :pinching_hand:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f90f.png" data-shortname=":pinching_hand:" /></p><p>Our saving grace here is that although we're on brickmaking clay, it's really well aggregated at depth. </p><p>I honestly lay much of the credit for that between two things - minimal machinery, and a massive spreading thistle "problem". </p><p>Because if you go over the fence on one side, it's almost the same at depth but tight at the surface (setstocked sheep) and the other side is just like brick (dairy) right the way down. </p><p>All on the same soil, literally a 5 minute walk apart.</p><p></p><p>The sheep farmer just lets the grass do its thing and the dairy is always too wet or too dry, and struggling to feed the cows despite new grass and plenty of fert. It's just collapsed the structure from surface right down a spade length because there are no roots there is compaction, and because of the compaction there are no roots</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 7305871, member: 63856"] What sort of impact are you getting and how much litter/wasted feed are you putting down? Please don't take this at all the wrong way (because this was us!!) but what we were doing was 'animals behind a wire' and 'leaving some grass behind' It wasn't actually changing anything though We were still farming We still didn't want lots of weeds We still kept grazing all the time We were NOT creating herd impact with our stock density increase, and we weren't resting pastures nearly enough, and we still overgrazed. So the same thing happened, as what you said.... 🤏 Our saving grace here is that although we're on brickmaking clay, it's really well aggregated at depth. I honestly lay much of the credit for that between two things - minimal machinery, and a massive spreading thistle "problem". Because if you go over the fence on one side, it's almost the same at depth but tight at the surface (setstocked sheep) and the other side is just like brick (dairy) right the way down. All on the same soil, literally a 5 minute walk apart. The sheep farmer just lets the grass do its thing and the dairy is always too wet or too dry, and struggling to feed the cows despite new grass and plenty of fert. It's just collapsed the structure from surface right down a spade length because there are no roots there is compaction, and because of the compaction there are no roots [/QUOTE]
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