- Location
- somerset
over in the US, rancher uses 'bale' grazing, in an 'intensive' form.
30/40 bales, thickly placed, 500+cows, turn in for a week, then move on.
one would think, bloody good mess
but not, bales are really well spread into an even 'covering' across the ground, cows sort through it as the week progresses, and the shite is very evenly placed. Very little waste, might need to run flail topper over it, pre cultivation, or not.
very different, but a hell of a way to build fertility up, in a short time, accepting he would only show the good bits, but the way the cows sorted through, and nosed into the bale 'spots', by the end of the week, brilliant. He also block grazes standing maize .
certainly different, here, if we tried it, we would expect big 'heaps' where the bales were, and a resulting mess. Normally his ground would be frozen, this year, sodden.
30/40 bales, thickly placed, 500+cows, turn in for a week, then move on.
one would think, bloody good mess
but not, bales are really well spread into an even 'covering' across the ground, cows sort through it as the week progresses, and the shite is very evenly placed. Very little waste, might need to run flail topper over it, pre cultivation, or not.
very different, but a hell of a way to build fertility up, in a short time, accepting he would only show the good bits, but the way the cows sorted through, and nosed into the bale 'spots', by the end of the week, brilliant. He also block grazes standing maize .
certainly different, here, if we tried it, we would expect big 'heaps' where the bales were, and a resulting mess. Normally his ground would be frozen, this year, sodden.