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<blockquote data-quote="Banjo" data-source="post: 1687388" data-attributes="member: 17304"><p>I generally can graze up untill feb. or longer most years. But a few years ago i let about a third of the farm grow up untouched and ungrazed all summer to let it "rest" .</p><p>That year i was barely able to get to the first of the year and was pushing to do that .Since then i always clip everything at least a couple of times what i take out of rotation.......probably can't mow it too much as long as you don't mow it too short.</p><p>What happens is ......the spots in the pasture that the cattle don't eat because it gets too big stops growing after it heads out.....it gets over rested....mowing it stimulates it to keep growing. Fescue will tend to spread or thicken up if clipped occasionally ....like a lawn. </p><p>We used to grow tobacco and we would start the plants in float trays....styrofoam trays on water with soil mix. if you set the plants when they got up to size without clipping them they would really struggle to live because they were so tender...so we learned that if you rigged up a lawn mower or a weed eater and clipped them 2 or 3 times before you set them ....they would really toughen up and they would live a lot better. Same thing happens with the grass I think.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Banjo, post: 1687388, member: 17304"] I generally can graze up untill feb. or longer most years. But a few years ago i let about a third of the farm grow up untouched and ungrazed all summer to let it "rest" . That year i was barely able to get to the first of the year and was pushing to do that .Since then i always clip everything at least a couple of times what i take out of rotation.......probably can't mow it too much as long as you don't mow it too short. What happens is ......the spots in the pasture that the cattle don't eat because it gets too big stops growing after it heads out.....it gets over rested....mowing it stimulates it to keep growing. Fescue will tend to spread or thicken up if clipped occasionally ....like a lawn. We used to grow tobacco and we would start the plants in float trays....styrofoam trays on water with soil mix. if you set the plants when they got up to size without clipping them they would really struggle to live because they were so tender...so we learned that if you rigged up a lawn mower or a weed eater and clipped them 2 or 3 times before you set them ....they would really toughen up and they would live a lot better. Same thing happens with the grass I think. [/QUOTE]
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