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<blockquote data-quote="dt995" data-source="post: 7305925" data-attributes="member: 65138"><p>We're only small, and I have a "proper" job, and children, so I can't keep them any tighter-with-more-frequent-moves than every day or two. But we are small, so some areas don't have animals on them for ages. </p><p></p><p>There have been times putting sheep into waist-high grass areas, and moving them on with most of it trampled down uneaten, as recommended. I can't achieve that every time, but we did do it. Like I say, I think it's great for the topsoil, but it doesn't do anything two feet down. You mention roots, but our roots probably drown here, more than anything else. It's been raining every day for weeks. There's no "valuable moisture to conserve". Bring on the run-off.</p><p></p><p>The only machinery on the fields in a normal year is for haylage making. We only cut the hedges in the fields every few years (this year was one, unfortunately).</p><p></p><p>A couple of years back we had the coal authority out to excavate and refill some old bell pits in a couple of the fields. You could see that as soon as they dug through the topsoil layer there was still water just sitting on top of the clay, and that was a spell of dry weather in summer. </p><p></p><p>When we had a droughty summer in 2018 people kept commenting that our fields were shockingly green compared to everyone else around. I'm not saying it doesn't work at all. But it doesn't work for the weather we get here on the ground we have here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dt995, post: 7305925, member: 65138"] We're only small, and I have a "proper" job, and children, so I can't keep them any tighter-with-more-frequent-moves than every day or two. But we are small, so some areas don't have animals on them for ages. There have been times putting sheep into waist-high grass areas, and moving them on with most of it trampled down uneaten, as recommended. I can't achieve that every time, but we did do it. Like I say, I think it's great for the topsoil, but it doesn't do anything two feet down. You mention roots, but our roots probably drown here, more than anything else. It's been raining every day for weeks. There's no "valuable moisture to conserve". Bring on the run-off. The only machinery on the fields in a normal year is for haylage making. We only cut the hedges in the fields every few years (this year was one, unfortunately). A couple of years back we had the coal authority out to excavate and refill some old bell pits in a couple of the fields. You could see that as soon as they dug through the topsoil layer there was still water just sitting on top of the clay, and that was a spell of dry weather in summer. When we had a droughty summer in 2018 people kept commenting that our fields were shockingly green compared to everyone else around. I'm not saying it doesn't work at all. But it doesn't work for the weather we get here on the ground we have here. [/QUOTE]
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