ArrowHBrand
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Around me neck of the woods we figure one cow unit/acre. That is one cow/calf pair or one bull. I have heard of people doubling that, but leaving them on pasture for only half as long. What does everyone else do?
dun":1i9c7yoc said:The whole unit or cow or whatever per acre/hectar doesn;t mean diddly with a specification of the period of time!
I know a couple of people that run several pairs per acre, then they buy and supplement hay for 7 months of the year. That doesn;t mean jack about the carrying capacity. We run about 1 pair per 5-6 acres in normal or semi-normal years. But we also cut the hay that goes into feeding them for the month or 2 in normal or semi-normal years. The various pastures/hay fields, around here they're the same thing, are handled different year to year. One year we will cut and not graze one field, cut and graze another, graze then cut another, graze and regraze another. Some fields get grazed only once a year and are left to regrow and set seed, all depends on how the field looks and how much fertility has been drawn off of it during the preceding year.
regenwether":3s161fn9 said:How hard are you pushing the grass? Do you rotate? Put any N on in the spring? For the most part I'm between 2.5 to 3. I've got some timber with bluffs the deer just use for cover :lol: .