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Whats the stabiliser cow of the sheep world?
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<blockquote data-quote="NZDan" data-source="post: 6867333" data-attributes="member: 1037"><p>Fencing is cheap, if done wisely. And yes there is money to be made on up land ground, even more money if it is fenced well. Plenty of evidence that shows that subdivision of brittle desert environments (which is what much of upland UK is) leads to massive increases of fodder production and stocking rate. </p><p>I've been on two farms in the UK which were traditional hill (heather) farms, that when subdivided were able to increase stocking rate.</p><p>The first one I saw fenced heather so that there were enough fields that the ewes spent no more than 4 days in a field and grazed it no more that twice a year, ewe numbers went from 270 to 1250 over a 5 year time span and stayed that way for 5 years, the tenancy ended and the new shepherd pulled all the fences out and went back to a traditional system, when I finished scanning there he was back down to 300 ewes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NZDan, post: 6867333, member: 1037"] Fencing is cheap, if done wisely. And yes there is money to be made on up land ground, even more money if it is fenced well. Plenty of evidence that shows that subdivision of brittle desert environments (which is what much of upland UK is) leads to massive increases of fodder production and stocking rate. I've been on two farms in the UK which were traditional hill (heather) farms, that when subdivided were able to increase stocking rate. The first one I saw fenced heather so that there were enough fields that the ewes spent no more than 4 days in a field and grazed it no more that twice a year, ewe numbers went from 270 to 1250 over a 5 year time span and stayed that way for 5 years, the tenancy ended and the new shepherd pulled all the fences out and went back to a traditional system, when I finished scanning there he was back down to 300 ewes. [/QUOTE]
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