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Managing pasture by cutting and leaving long grass?
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<blockquote data-quote="Dry Rot" data-source="post: 8213709" data-attributes="member: 4505"><p>Just to play Devil's Advocate, but by taking hay/haylage or grazing with stock, aren't you removing the nutrients in the form of fodder or meat/hides, etc? In 'normal' farming, that will be replaced with artificials and lime.</p><p></p><p>I was taught that topping was the best way to preserve unused grassland and that should be done before the grass had put up seed heads because flowering exhausts the grass by wasting energy? "It is the aim of every living thing to reproduce. That is what defines life".</p><p></p><p>Having (almost) got rid of the horses, I have a lot of grass, especially where grazed by the horses (sorry about that!). That's because I don't do what many horse owners do and pick up after my horses. I harrow the manure and rest the field. Yes, horses graze closer than sheep and can destroy grassland by grazing out all the taller species, but given time to recover it will flourish. Horse poo is excellent fertiliser, ask any rose grower. At least it does here on my sandy soil which won't grow much without dung.</p><p></p><p>Edited to say I've cut about 3 acres so far which has never had much fertiliser and got a very good crop.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dry Rot, post: 8213709, member: 4505"] Just to play Devil's Advocate, but by taking hay/haylage or grazing with stock, aren't you removing the nutrients in the form of fodder or meat/hides, etc? In 'normal' farming, that will be replaced with artificials and lime. I was taught that topping was the best way to preserve unused grassland and that should be done before the grass had put up seed heads because flowering exhausts the grass by wasting energy? "It is the aim of every living thing to reproduce. That is what defines life". Having (almost) got rid of the horses, I have a lot of grass, especially where grazed by the horses (sorry about that!). That's because I don't do what many horse owners do and pick up after my horses. I harrow the manure and rest the field. Yes, horses graze closer than sheep and can destroy grassland by grazing out all the taller species, but given time to recover it will flourish. Horse poo is excellent fertiliser, ask any rose grower. At least it does here on my sandy soil which won't grow much without dung. Edited to say I've cut about 3 acres so far which has never had much fertiliser and got a very good crop. [/QUOTE]
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