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Managing pasture by cutting and leaving long grass?
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<blockquote data-quote="Moors Lad" data-source="post: 8217309" data-attributes="member: 4209"><p>In my limited (lifetime! ) experience our sheep don`t eat the grass very well around the edges of fields where there are trees in the hedge-line and in fact they don`t seem to like grass that grows under the occasional tree we have in the "middle" of fields either (obviously there`s "something" missing in the grass).</p><p> It`s the first I`ve heard of trees "fixing" nitrogen too - I fear trees take the goodness (and moisture!) out of land rather than putting it back..... The other point about trees is that they make it VERY difficult to get that last important dryness in hay if there`s too many of them - I used to try making hay in little 2 acre fields with hedges and trees around the outsides of them - what a job getting good dry hay around the outsides, and there`s not much "middle" in fields of that size!!</p><p> With all respect to the OP the ONLY place for trees is in wooded areas or around the perimeter of fields.......</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Moors Lad, post: 8217309, member: 4209"] In my limited (lifetime! ) experience our sheep don`t eat the grass very well around the edges of fields where there are trees in the hedge-line and in fact they don`t seem to like grass that grows under the occasional tree we have in the "middle" of fields either (obviously there`s "something" missing in the grass). It`s the first I`ve heard of trees "fixing" nitrogen too - I fear trees take the goodness (and moisture!) out of land rather than putting it back..... The other point about trees is that they make it VERY difficult to get that last important dryness in hay if there`s too many of them - I used to try making hay in little 2 acre fields with hedges and trees around the outsides of them - what a job getting good dry hay around the outsides, and there`s not much "middle" in fields of that size!! With all respect to the OP the ONLY place for trees is in wooded areas or around the perimeter of fields....... [/QUOTE]
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