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The Disappearance of the All Round Farmer
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<blockquote data-quote="neilo" data-source="post: 4396622" data-attributes="member: 348"><p>It did work and it always has, but it required more work than just opening a gate and letting the stock roam.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p>There was an old saying, going back much further than 25 years, that you should never let stock hear the church bells twice in the same field. That is essentially rotational grazing, just perhaps not as strictly regulated as some do today in pursuit of further production gains.</p><p>I'm 49 and have been involved in livestock all my life. We have always mobbed sheep up into groups of around 250 ewes and their lambs (as many as you can comfortably work in a day, between milkings originally) and moved them frequently. I still do today. For almost 30 years, I have wintered sheep behind electric on roots, with fresh blocks every 4 days or so. Another thing that is suddenly in fashion. </p><p>My father was up to 330 milkers in the seventies, and everything was always strip grazed behind electric with fresh blocks daily. As soon as I was old enough, that was my job. Didn't have pasture meters and all that gubbins, just experience and a pair of eyes that could evaluate how big a block they would need for a day. We had a lot of followers outwintered on strip grazed Kale back in those days (levelling R&F on occasion), which is another 'new' idea, but were damned glad when we got the next door farm added to the tenancy, giving us some buildings to have them in!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="neilo, post: 4396622, member: 348"] It did work and it always has, but it required more work than just opening a gate and letting the stock roam.;) There was an old saying, going back much further than 25 years, that you should never let stock hear the church bells twice in the same field. That is essentially rotational grazing, just perhaps not as strictly regulated as some do today in pursuit of further production gains. I'm 49 and have been involved in livestock all my life. We have always mobbed sheep up into groups of around 250 ewes and their lambs (as many as you can comfortably work in a day, between milkings originally) and moved them frequently. I still do today. For almost 30 years, I have wintered sheep behind electric on roots, with fresh blocks every 4 days or so. Another thing that is suddenly in fashion. My father was up to 330 milkers in the seventies, and everything was always strip grazed behind electric with fresh blocks daily. As soon as I was old enough, that was my job. Didn't have pasture meters and all that gubbins, just experience and a pair of eyes that could evaluate how big a block they would need for a day. We had a lot of followers outwintered on strip grazed Kale back in those days (levelling R&F on occasion), which is another 'new' idea, but were damned glad when we got the next door farm added to the tenancy, giving us some buildings to have them in! [/QUOTE]
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