Grazing is a Tool

  • 7 years ago
Well, realise that grazing is a tool, and it's not a perfect world. Because of time constraints, there's times when we don't graze at as high a stock density as we like. But, in saying that some is better than ... not, so do what you can and I liken it to this, there's a lot of people who set stock, and then I ask them "Well, how often do you check your cattle?", "Ah, once a week". Then move them once a week, you don't have to do the multiple moves. Some is better than none, as far as a tool to use that's going to be totally dependent on the area, the land, the terrain, etc. I have not tried any of that, have you heard of anybody trying to roll perennial pastures ...

Yes.

Okay, do you want to talk about it?

I had some guys at Dubbo that didn't like animals, and so I kept saying that if you're going to slash or mulch then you need to push the litter on to the ground, so then he went for a sheep's foot roller and then a heavy roller behind that. Then it wasn't decaying so then he put

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