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<blockquote data-quote="RDFF" data-source="post: 1795500" data-attributes="member: 39018"><p>So far no, I haven't been planting trees, because I've been getting by (for essential shade when it's just too hot) to serve the purpose for the time being. But I sometimes have been considering putting a wind break row in along my north property line... or so... to have more shelter for the cattle in the wintertime. Most of my farm is tiled... so there's tile lines there, and my waterline runs parallel to that north property line too, and it's where I'm installing my watering stations (using tire tanks in the middle of the "headland", preferably centered on every other subdivision fence so generally they would only use each station while on one of two strips, ...but it's best to locate them on the top of a knob for drainage away from the station (you for sure don't want to place them in or close to the "low spots" or in the valleys), so INLINE WITH THE SUBDIVISION FENCE isn't ALWAYS going to be the best placement). Most of my farm is pretty "open"... so when we get a bad blizzard with the wrong winds, it's pretty hard on 'em. They'll typically hang around the building site grove where they can get out of the wind when it's like that. I leave the subdivision fence back about 80' from the boundary fence on both ends of the strips, and then just block off wherever I need to with polywire. I put them on a strip, and then all I have to do is move one polywire 215' long (across the strip), to limit them to whatever amount they should have for the day... daily, or sometimes twice daily moves. I can run ANY NUMBER of animals in a group this way... nothing is a "fixed size" move, ever. If I need to put them on two strips to have enough, I can do that. If they only need a 215' x 50' area, I can do that. I might have them on 200' of one strip and 200' of the next at times. Very "flexible". </p><p></p><p>You can see there's a "woods" in the middle of the farm (kind of a dark trapezoid there in the center...) and then there's an odd shaped pasture past that last "watering station", in the upper right corner (NE corner of the farm). I've got another farm 1/4 mile further east, which also has access to some woods when needed. And then I've got another farm a mile further east from this one too. Obviously, this was all "corn/bean" land... which I'm completely surrounded by. I'm the odd man out that everybody talks about! Paved county highway runs right past our yard and through my farm there on the left... 1/2 mile to the north is a major state highway.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]27946[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RDFF, post: 1795500, member: 39018"] So far no, I haven't been planting trees, because I've been getting by (for essential shade when it's just too hot) to serve the purpose for the time being. But I sometimes have been considering putting a wind break row in along my north property line... or so... to have more shelter for the cattle in the wintertime. Most of my farm is tiled... so there's tile lines there, and my waterline runs parallel to that north property line too, and it's where I'm installing my watering stations (using tire tanks in the middle of the "headland", preferably centered on every other subdivision fence so generally they would only use each station while on one of two strips, ...but it's best to locate them on the top of a knob for drainage away from the station (you for sure don't want to place them in or close to the "low spots" or in the valleys), so INLINE WITH THE SUBDIVISION FENCE isn't ALWAYS going to be the best placement). Most of my farm is pretty "open"... so when we get a bad blizzard with the wrong winds, it's pretty hard on 'em. They'll typically hang around the building site grove where they can get out of the wind when it's like that. I leave the subdivision fence back about 80' from the boundary fence on both ends of the strips, and then just block off wherever I need to with polywire. I put them on a strip, and then all I have to do is move one polywire 215' long (across the strip), to limit them to whatever amount they should have for the day... daily, or sometimes twice daily moves. I can run ANY NUMBER of animals in a group this way... nothing is a "fixed size" move, ever. If I need to put them on two strips to have enough, I can do that. If they only need a 215' x 50' area, I can do that. I might have them on 200' of one strip and 200' of the next at times. Very "flexible". You can see there's a "woods" in the middle of the farm (kind of a dark trapezoid there in the center...) and then there's an odd shaped pasture past that last "watering station", in the upper right corner (NE corner of the farm). I've got another farm 1/4 mile further east, which also has access to some woods when needed. And then I've got another farm a mile further east from this one too. Obviously, this was all "corn/bean" land... which I'm completely surrounded by. I'm the odd man out that everybody talks about! Paved county highway runs right past our yard and through my farm there on the left... 1/2 mile to the north is a major state highway. [ATTACH type="full" alt="1679497173781.png"]27946[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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