And you don't notice that your grass volume is increasing as you do it. I had not noticed the thickness compared to 2 years ago. But there isnt any perfect system and variation is necessary, just as nature never does the same thing. Imo.
What is your climate like and how long are your rotations. It is hard to quantify an increase in production year to year due to variations in climate. What I have noticed is a shift in from less palatable species to more favorable perennial grasses and legumes. That does require have cows that can eat the poorer quality feed.
It rains 9 months of the year so 3 months dry. We get 78 inches a year. During the wet we try to keep rest periods to approx 21 days and about 35 days during the dry. Our native grass is called cogon or imperata cylindrica. Our legume mixed in is stylo. Our challenge is parasite load cause of the long wet. We run Brahmans only.
Thank you. Believe it or not I am reading it now. Hahaha. You must be a mind reader.
Where is here? You need to go into your profile, and add a location,
Did your friends say what it costs to plant an acre of corn including all the tillage and inputs?
It's free Silver!
Those of us who have open range and put up hay use the regrowth on the fields for grazing when cattle return home in the fall. Would not be the brightest idea to leave the bales out.
If the corn is going to be planted anyways and it's a crop that gets harvested and the stalks are just waste product... then does it matter? Of course if it's planted just for the cows to graze you have a point.
In northern Alberta you don't grow corn for harvest.
I've always found hay to be more cooperative to move than cows. Just stays where you leave it, no fences or gates or nothing. I only have a small "herd" but I imagine that scales up. But I imagine it would depend on the situation. One continuous parcel, sure divvy up and graze on. A few leased acres here and there down the road a ways, haying would be easier to move and wouldn't require any infrastructure to do so. But I'm in the east, so parcels are smaller and broken up by housing developments and other farms, so an errant bale roaming a neighborhood won't cause quite the commotion an errant bull would.
