Recent content by andybob

Busy moving down to Cornwall so am too busy to take part at the moment, here are a link to an article on grazing and the Florida workshop on selecting grass based genetics; https://www.farmersweekly.co.za/animals/cattle/man-cattle-veld/

This video gives a good indication as to what the selection criteria is for grass based efficiency -

In the context of South America I would contact Jaime Elizondo for advice on pasture regeneration and grazing systems https://www.rwranching.com/

Not Longhorns but similar, Afrikaner cattle spanned into a trek waggon - https://i.pinimg.com/originals/24/32/93/243293ffcaf25f48403a7f5447c7bdec.jpg

Allan went into the carbon sequestration etc while Johann has concentrated on improving soil/grazing/production/acre from a cattleman point of view. There are large populations of antelope etc on Johann's ranch which are also managed as part of the environment, but not promoting the climate angle.

Planned rotation definitely work in arid environments, and farmers here in the UK are increasing production on highly productive pastures, using the same principles, but far different timing. Allan has never been rich, having worked as a game department biologist, army officer, politician (old...

Johann actually developed the high density grazing system now used in the Holistic grazing program, during the 70's people in different countries were trialing grazing systems with varying degrees of success. Allan Savory was approaching the problem of degradation in the national parks as a...

This video goes into more detail, Johannes' work has been replicated not only throughout southern Africa, but in Australia, the USA, Mexico, several South American countries, UK and several Mediterranean countries - https://sangacattle.webs.com/apps/videos/videos/show/18906811-sustainable-ranching

When we started out, we herded the cattle and goats due to the large game population, when we had to leave, with a much smaller herd, we went to polywire, having seen how my former neighbour Johann Zietsman was managing his herd, - https://www.cfuzim.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/uhdzietsman.pdf

Just to follow up on a discussion on the introductions page, how much do we know about the Salorn, and why did the breed fail? Was Prof Jan Bonsma wrong in his breed selection, or did historic attitude towards the Longhorn prevent the adoption of the composite...

There was a breed - the Salorn developed consulting with Prof Jan Bonsma, I have no idea why the breed didn't gain any recognition, but would be interested to know.

You are correct Re the photos, I did a search on the old posts and they are gone. With my background in "unimproved" breeds I was very interested in their program at the time - goes to show what the Longhorn might have been had a few people selected for conformation while everyone else was...

Does anyone remember a youngster named Ryan, who used to post pictures of Longhorns he and his father had bred with the emphasis on improved conformation? They had some well conformed cattle which I assume still retained the hardiness and adaptability of the original genotype.

In most countries, outfitters are required by law to ensure the caliber of the weapon is matched to the quarry size, plus a qualified professional hunter has to be covering the prey in case of a wound shot.