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<blockquote data-quote="FungusProudKY31" data-source="post: 1662880" data-attributes="member: 40881"><p>"The long grazing intervals, in part, are building a fescue stockpile." </p><p>This does not work in SC. I have no idea of other locations. With some fences down due to logging, some high % fescue pastures were not grazed for almost 2 years. The fescue actually diminished without animal interaction one winter and the animals did not gain weight when forced to graze the old vegetation.</p><p></p><p>This whole discussion of long rotations makes no sense. We focus on the soil. It has to be healthy. Let's highly discuss that. Then we focus on the plants and they need to fit and be various. Let's highly discuss that. Then we begin to talk about livestock and we say "let them eat old woody and overmature forage and do great". The wheel is off of the wagon at that point. It is a choice to ignore the animal needs in the whole of the system. Let me feed you cardboard and wood dust for a week and let's see how you feel and how much you gain. If you believe that over mature forages are great to plan to feed, you are really abusing your animals and ought to sell out. I don't care how many funny stories you can tell or if you slept in your truck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FungusProudKY31, post: 1662880, member: 40881"] "The long grazing intervals, in part, are building a fescue stockpile." This does not work in SC. I have no idea of other locations. With some fences down due to logging, some high % fescue pastures were not grazed for almost 2 years. The fescue actually diminished without animal interaction one winter and the animals did not gain weight when forced to graze the old vegetation. This whole discussion of long rotations makes no sense. We focus on the soil. It has to be healthy. Let's highly discuss that. Then we focus on the plants and they need to fit and be various. Let's highly discuss that. Then we begin to talk about livestock and we say "let them eat old woody and overmature forage and do great". The wheel is off of the wagon at that point. It is a choice to ignore the animal needs in the whole of the system. Let me feed you cardboard and wood dust for a week and let's see how you feel and how much you gain. If you believe that over mature forages are great to plan to feed, you are really abusing your animals and ought to sell out. I don't care how many funny stories you can tell or if you slept in your truck. [/QUOTE]
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