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<blockquote data-quote="Jogeephus" data-source="post: 646190" data-attributes="member: 4362"><p>Dun, going along with what you said I've got a thought/theory on this. Not saying its right just saying its something I'm smoking over. Heck, it beats worrying about the economy. There is a rule in nature made by a German named MarMoeller. He stated that, "the total biomass of a site is relatively independant of density as long as the site is fully occupied". What he is basically saying is that the dirt has a carrying capacity. This is a rule designed more for timberland but I've noticed a correlation between the number of tons of wood I can grow per acre on a site and the amount of hay I can grow on a site. So taking Mar's rule out of context and applying it to forages, I'm wondering if this principle could also be applicable here as well. What this seems to me is that while I can grow some lush grass during the ideal growing season with improved varieties their production is limited to a certain window of the year and after which I get little or no production - unless it is manipulated via fert and other seed. On the otherhand, in this ugly field I created I realized a lowered production during this same window but an increased amount of forage during the time the improved stuff was shut down. All in all, if there was some way of calculating the tons of forage on both sites I'm wondering if they were not relatively the same like this rule would suggest. I guess the simplest way to compare the two would be to figure the number of grazing days. Just a thought.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jogeephus, post: 646190, member: 4362"] Dun, going along with what you said I've got a thought/theory on this. Not saying its right just saying its something I'm smoking over. Heck, it beats worrying about the economy. There is a rule in nature made by a German named MarMoeller. He stated that, "the total biomass of a site is relatively independant of density as long as the site is fully occupied". What he is basically saying is that the dirt has a carrying capacity. This is a rule designed more for timberland but I've noticed a correlation between the number of tons of wood I can grow per acre on a site and the amount of hay I can grow on a site. So taking Mar's rule out of context and applying it to forages, I'm wondering if this principle could also be applicable here as well. What this seems to me is that while I can grow some lush grass during the ideal growing season with improved varieties their production is limited to a certain window of the year and after which I get little or no production - unless it is manipulated via fert and other seed. On the otherhand, in this ugly field I created I realized a lowered production during this same window but an increased amount of forage during the time the improved stuff was shut down. All in all, if there was some way of calculating the tons of forage on both sites I'm wondering if they were not relatively the same like this rule would suggest. I guess the simplest way to compare the two would be to figure the number of grazing days. Just a thought. [/QUOTE]
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