Well it's cruel to not give them the whole farm plus the weeds don't get a fair shake in the whole deal. The oil companies are getting ripped off as well I mean they have families to feed to.
Well that is too. I'm also too poor to afford all of that cost. I have to make money first before I can start paying the money to create hay. It's a hard concept.
Try slooooowing down your rotations and you'll hopefully get some of that mud! You've probably gotten some pretty bad sunburns being outside all winter too.
We dream of the day we get new pastures back like that. We lost our lease and winter stockpile and are now working on fences of our new leases (more than one this time) I never want our cows to see mud gain.
Unfortunately yes. Granted your fields have to be in good shape with a great mix of legumes and grasses but it is possible. But it's way easier to just put them up on a feed lot and spend the money instead of management of grasses. 👍
Some real reasons not to rotational graze assuming you’re not in an arid brittle landscape that I have no experience of 1. Trials show 14% higher live weight gains on animal with whole farm continuous grazing vs rotational grazing. I can verify this on my own dairy herd, for 20 years I rotationally grazed and my father did before me but in 2020 I stopped and animal performance improved. 2. Much Denser pastures, more tillers, more resilience to poaching or the mud you were talking about. 3. Much earlier spring growth and later autumn growth, ground warms up quicker and without all the dead stagnant grass it get’s going much more quickly. 3. Faster humus or long term carbon formation. Humus is predominantly from root exudates and not trampled grass which just feeds into shorter term carbon. Rotational grazing often leads to periods of low root exudates when grass going stagnant when rotation is too long and if grazing is too severe. Whole farm continuous grazing keeps grass in optimal growth conditions for greatest period of time. 4. More natural in regions that receive more even rainfall where grasslands are more likely to be semi natural grasslands and haven’t evolved with massive herds being chased by lots of predators. 5. More species diversity, more species of plants have evolved for conditions where grass is shorter and not being choked out by tall, stagnant and dead grass. Again I’m sure that’s different for natural grassland regions. 6. Much easier management 7. Lower infrastructure cost, fencing, water, access routes 8. More diverse environments for cows to choose conditions - more shelter, they can choose locations depending on wind direction, rainfall, they can access hedges, and more diverse plants when they need them. 9. Much more clover and other legumes, they thrive with the extra light. I could keep going. All these assume you have an appropriate stocking rate, if your stocking rate is too high you probably have more control with rotational grazing.
This is all very wrong. You obviously have not done any actual research on these topics and most definitely don't have any firsthand experience in the field. "much denser pastures, more tillers...." "species diversity (aka WEEDS lol)" "whole farm grazing keeps grass in optimal growth conditions.." WHAT are you talking about? This level of gibberish and misinformation absolutely requires supporting data... where did you come up with these "facts" that you've enlightened us all with?
20 million?! Wow! Making people laugh is a much needed profession. Companies should start recruiting for more comedians to stand in production lines and tell jokes. Or these unemployed comedians should start running cows. I like that idea.
Apparently rotational grazing makes a bunch of lazy ass cows too, half of your lazys just laying around, barely enough energy to make it to the next day rotation. JEEZ I hate that too.
