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Managing pasture by cutting and leaving long grass?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ffermer Bach" data-source="post: 8213816" data-attributes="member: 51054"><p><strong>but the soil organic matter is 4% and I want to get it higher.</strong></p><p></p><p>My advice for that would be, allow the fields to grow very high, then subdivide into small paddocks and see if you could get someone with a few cattle to "mob graze", working on the principle of eat 1/3, leave 1/3 and trample 1/3, then move on to the next paddock, maybe twice a day moves or I guess even more often would get a better result. And maybe 60 day rest periods for each paddock.</p><p></p><p>You will need water pipe over the field, with a series of connectors to move the water trough as the cattle move, and a pipe of poly wire for the electric fence.</p><p></p><p>Organic matter gets "into" the soil, by, the plant using photosynthesis to harvest energy from the sun (and nutrients from the soil), using this to grow organic matter, then to really supercharge the system, cattle treading that organic matter back into the soil, where dung beetles, worms and other other soil fauna/flora take it into the soil, plus, the plants will "give" sugars to the soil fungi in exchange for nutrients, so adding Carbon, and as plants are reduced in size, so their roots will die off again adding organic matter.</p><p></p><p>If it was mine, as much as I like trees, I would chop up the trees from the middle of the fields, plant hedges round the edges (with hedge row trees maybe every 10 yards, any less than that, and I don't think I would get a hedge cutting contractor to bother coming, even that may be too close!). I think planting lines of trees over the fields will seriously devalue your asset. Fine, if you want to accept that, as it is yours, but still in my opinion bit silly. Or at least, plant straight lines, parallel, and two tramlines apart!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ffermer Bach, post: 8213816, member: 51054"] [B]but the soil organic matter is 4% and I want to get it higher.[/B] My advice for that would be, allow the fields to grow very high, then subdivide into small paddocks and see if you could get someone with a few cattle to "mob graze", working on the principle of eat 1/3, leave 1/3 and trample 1/3, then move on to the next paddock, maybe twice a day moves or I guess even more often would get a better result. And maybe 60 day rest periods for each paddock. You will need water pipe over the field, with a series of connectors to move the water trough as the cattle move, and a pipe of poly wire for the electric fence. Organic matter gets "into" the soil, by, the plant using photosynthesis to harvest energy from the sun (and nutrients from the soil), using this to grow organic matter, then to really supercharge the system, cattle treading that organic matter back into the soil, where dung beetles, worms and other other soil fauna/flora take it into the soil, plus, the plants will "give" sugars to the soil fungi in exchange for nutrients, so adding Carbon, and as plants are reduced in size, so their roots will die off again adding organic matter. If it was mine, as much as I like trees, I would chop up the trees from the middle of the fields, plant hedges round the edges (with hedge row trees maybe every 10 yards, any less than that, and I don't think I would get a hedge cutting contractor to bother coming, even that may be too close!). I think planting lines of trees over the fields will seriously devalue your asset. Fine, if you want to accept that, as it is yours, but still in my opinion bit silly. Or at least, plant straight lines, parallel, and two tramlines apart! [/QUOTE]
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