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Millionaires today are likely to be more ideological and not want cows. Heard of that happening particularly in Charlottesville I've been trying to rent for some time. Old names and people are paying 40/acre mostly and beating the land up and invest nothing in infrastructure. Land owners are...

I'm toying with buying some I am a bit short on hay and don't want to sell any more cattle. Hay and stockpile is lower on CP this year. I didn't test this year but I noticed cows not cleaning up unrolled hay and then got an email from Matt Booher our local extension agent on just that - protein...

Understood. Be safe. And you aren't in the grazing belt. I tried bale grazing one year. Left mudded up circles that turned to lambs quarter, thistle and pig weed. Four years later it's just turning to grass. That should work for you provided ground is frozen.

What about Greg is full of BS? Id like a bale unrolled but can't get up the guts to spend 3400 when I can unroll with my old bale buggy, push it by hand and spread with a pitchfork.

This study is interesting in that it claims that root depth in mixed cover crops is more uniform and thin. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-agriculture-crops-mixtures-unexpected-results.amp

Visited with my mother who lives 15 minutes from yesterday. She got a nice pleasant rain. Drove home and the rain stopped right at the property line. Wet pavement, dry pavement.

@Ebenezer Do you test regularly? So does drought lower carbon because plants stop producing but microbes keep on eating? @Jeanne - Simme Valley isn't carbon more of an issue in the south? I remember visiting a farm in western NY state, such rich dark loamy soil. I know clay holds more...

Looks tasty Murray. What's the light brown fried thing on your plate?

Very good hope everything goes well.

Setting at an auction with more junk than farm equipment. Any salad looks delish. Mark you retiring? A lot of us are tiring of people moving in areas and bringing development and high taxes. Preaching appreciated. That said I've toyed with moving. There are not many cheap areas now that are...

I found this good review of studies on LinkedIn of all places (I despise the self-promoting, self-righteous culture there) and while its targeted at carbon farmers it nicely summarizes recent research...

I stand corrected. I suppose I hear the accent and notice the connections and ran off with the wrong conclusion.

I was looking for specific items that Savory recommends that you find unworkable. To start I struggle to understand where HPG differs from MIG or rational grazing. They both appear to favor high density and a distributed stockpile. HPG is so vague and includes concepts like social impact...

Mark without watching the video what specifically doesn't work? I do know that there is a cottage industry selling grazing to monied environmentalists and prospective farmers. And many cults with their groupies. Travlr I am with you on observation. I'm currently stuck on the problem of cows...

Its a bit humbling to write this but we sold our fall calves this April averaging 440 pounds. I was also quite sick for in November and December and recovering the rest of the winter. Calves didn't get worked in November and failed to get enough hay unrolled or cattle moved on a timely basis...

Its dry here too but cows are fat and calves are growing. Now last years fall born calves were poor on insufficient stockpile (and other issues)

Those numbers are for the last few years where its been very dry and we have only been doing intensive rotations for the last 3 years. Another reason for the longer rotations on some pastures is the novel endophyte fescue I planted (Baroptima) is a palatable soft leaf variety. Cattle will eat...

We are addressing the issue by genetics (culling, heat tolerant bulls), seeding clovers and chicory, and planting novel endophytes in places. Rest periods vary from 30 in spring flush to 60-75.

The challenge of rotational grazing - and being able to do that well - is fence, water and in summer shade. I'll relate my experience. We have little interior fence and use polywire like others have described above. The chief issue for us has been getting out water economically. We have...

Gorgeous clover there! What reel are you using? I should have advertised this here, but I scored some pig tail posts off Amazon's prime day sale, 30 for $80. The insulation on my older posts are beginning to crack. I have been looking for a roll of plastic tube to replace with but for 2.67...