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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 756122" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>I'd be interested to hear Jim Gerrish's take on mob-stocking - he shows up on the board here from time to time.</p><p>We've kinda tried to follow his lead on management-intensive grazing since the farm manager/wife attended one of the MU Grazing School sessions back in the mid-90's when he was at the MU grazing center at Linneus, MO.</p><p>We're Currently rotating about 85 head of cows, calves, and yearlings through 5-acre paddocks(fescue/orchardgrass/white clover) every 3 days - but need to cut paddock size in half and rotate faster to get better, more uniform utilization. Can't keep up with regrowth at this point in the season, but depending on weather conditions, that will probably change as we get into mid-summer, when crabgrass/johnsongrass/lespedeza will assume more prominence in the sward.</p><p></p><p>I can see the 'benefits' of mob-stocking, as Salatin described it in the article linked earlier in this thread - if I had free access to overgrown/undergrazed ground - with adequate perimeter fencing and a way to make water available to each new small paddock you moved the cattle to, but I'm not sure it's the way to go on my pastures that are currently in decent condition - looks to me like you sacrifice a lot in forage quality by letting those forages become hypermature before you rotate back to them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 756122, member: 12607"] I'd be interested to hear Jim Gerrish's take on mob-stocking - he shows up on the board here from time to time. We've kinda tried to follow his lead on management-intensive grazing since the farm manager/wife attended one of the MU Grazing School sessions back in the mid-90's when he was at the MU grazing center at Linneus, MO. We're Currently rotating about 85 head of cows, calves, and yearlings through 5-acre paddocks(fescue/orchardgrass/white clover) every 3 days - but need to cut paddock size in half and rotate faster to get better, more uniform utilization. Can't keep up with regrowth at this point in the season, but depending on weather conditions, that will probably change as we get into mid-summer, when crabgrass/johnsongrass/lespedeza will assume more prominence in the sward. I can see the 'benefits' of mob-stocking, as Salatin described it in the article linked earlier in this thread - if I had free access to overgrown/undergrazed ground - with adequate perimeter fencing and a way to make water available to each new small paddock you moved the cattle to, but I'm not sure it's the way to go on my pastures that are currently in decent condition - looks to me like you sacrifice a lot in forage quality by letting those forages become hypermature before you rotate back to them. [/QUOTE]
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