This course will provide you with the information you need to manage your native grass pastures. Learn how these grasses store energy and respond to grazing.
So I'm curious. Here in northern Missouri my 30A is mostly cool season grasses. There is some big blue an eastern gamma. I'm noticing the eastern gamma is starting to show up more an more every year. How do I keep it from taking over?
Hi there, I am completely new to any of this. City boy trying to escape and become a farmer. Super interested in all this stuff, I think about it all day. I have a question (sorry if it is a stupid Q), how do cows approach grass for feeding. Do they tend to eat pastures systematically as in the herd goes from front to back or is it not well organized? Every cow takes up a little piece of real estate. Also when they approach , lets say, a sqr ft of fresh grass and its 3 ft high. Do they eat the first ft and move on or do they eat it close to the ground? My reasoning is that of you have tall grass ready for a herd, how do you manage the length of grass to avoid it being eaten till 3-inches of the ground instead of maybe 10 inches leaving it more healthy and capable of regenerating faster. I have no experience, again, just very interested in everything.
hanks a lot for the video. Thanks a lot for the video. Quite useful!! I have a doubt. Does someone know a university in the USA that offers courses or a training program for three months in grasslandads or perennial forage crops managment? I am a farming engineer from Argentina, and I am working in this field. My wish is to improve my Knowledge in this area. Thanks a lot again!
Much of this corresponds to what Savory teaching in holistic planned grazing. However, I notice you don't make the same extraordinary claims he does about doubling or quadrupling stock density and this methods ability to withdraw carbon back into the earth enough to take us back to pre-industrial levels.
Thanks for your comment. I know of Alan Savory but have not followed his work closely. Grasslands do have the capacity to sequester large amounts of carbon. In fact, they represent one of the largest pools on the planet. Estimates of just how much this can be influenced by management needs to be better documented with good studies. In any case, changes in total soil carbon will not change overnight, it is a slow and often complex process. - Pat Keyser
Very high gains in carrying capacity - in this case, a 10-fold increase from 200 acres per cow to 20 acres per cow - are achievable when the starting condition of land is highly degraded. Regenerative rancher Alejandro Carrillo is using Holistic Planned Grazing to restore grassland to sections of the Chihuahuan “Desert”receiving less than 10” (25 cm) of rain year. Grassfed Exchange 2019 - Alejandro Carrillo April 5, 2019, 26 mins. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ue6lW-a2OJs.html
Use of a grazing plan to track rainfall, temperature, plant growth rate, animal life cycles, etc., enables higher productivity, better profitability, and greater carbon sequestration. How We Plan Our Grazing - Richard Perkins Filling in a Holistic Planned Grazing chart (2020, 1 hr. 21 mins.) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rO7xl9l-YRs.html
