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<blockquote data-quote="purecountry" data-source="post: 230825" data-attributes="member: 2306"><p>Exactly, TXTibbs. If you continuously 'mine' your soil of crops or forage, you are just depleting your soil of all of it's nutrients. We've been doing it for years by swath-grazing or cropping the same fields over and over. Sure we were putting on chemical fertilizer, but that just feeds the plant, NOT THE SOIL.</p><p></p><p>By putting the cropland back into forage, we are starting to rebuild our soils, but it will take time. With high stocking rates we can ensure that some litter always gets tramped into the organic layer, but it is a delicate balance between too much grazing, and too little. And of course, there are always years of less rain when pastures have to be overgrazed some, or else cow numbers must be reduced. It has taken me along time to see it, but I now realize that reducing cow numbers to save the grass/soil health, is alot wiser in the long run than overgrazing and reducing nutrient numbers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="purecountry, post: 230825, member: 2306"] Exactly, TXTibbs. If you continuously 'mine' your soil of crops or forage, you are just depleting your soil of all of it's nutrients. We've been doing it for years by swath-grazing or cropping the same fields over and over. Sure we were putting on chemical fertilizer, but that just feeds the plant, NOT THE SOIL. By putting the cropland back into forage, we are starting to rebuild our soils, but it will take time. With high stocking rates we can ensure that some litter always gets tramped into the organic layer, but it is a delicate balance between too much grazing, and too little. And of course, there are always years of less rain when pastures have to be overgrazed some, or else cow numbers must be reduced. It has taken me along time to see it, but I now realize that reducing cow numbers to save the grass/soil health, is alot wiser in the long run than overgrazing and reducing nutrient numbers. [/QUOTE]
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