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<blockquote data-quote="ToddFarmsInc" data-source="post: 548230" data-attributes="member: 8301"><p>good call. The ground around my moms house is finnally getting into pretty good shape. (and now we are planning on selling to for more urban sprawl) My parrents bought the ground (about 40 acres of cool season grass, brome mostly) nearly 14 years ago. </p><p></p><p>The previous owners had over grazed the ground, and the grass was in terrible shape. Trees, brush, cactus (which is really rare around here). Now I run around a 100 head of cattle on the ground and it has never looked better. The previous owners had 5 cows on it and had over grazed it. That may sound strange, but the previous owners had no other pasture, and had no internal pens, or lots, so the 5 cows just kept eating the same tastey patches over and over, ignoring other areas of the fields. When I run my cows on it, they are on it for 1-2 weeks out of the year, and that's it. With that large number of head of cows, everyone eats everything, everything gets uniformally grazed down, then before I see too much of the cows ankles, they get moved right on out.</p><p></p><p>Management is more important than quanity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ToddFarmsInc, post: 548230, member: 8301"] good call. The ground around my moms house is finnally getting into pretty good shape. (and now we are planning on selling to for more urban sprawl) My parrents bought the ground (about 40 acres of cool season grass, brome mostly) nearly 14 years ago. The previous owners had over grazed the ground, and the grass was in terrible shape. Trees, brush, cactus (which is really rare around here). Now I run around a 100 head of cattle on the ground and it has never looked better. The previous owners had 5 cows on it and had over grazed it. That may sound strange, but the previous owners had no other pasture, and had no internal pens, or lots, so the 5 cows just kept eating the same tastey patches over and over, ignoring other areas of the fields. When I run my cows on it, they are on it for 1-2 weeks out of the year, and that's it. With that large number of head of cows, everyone eats everything, everything gets uniformally grazed down, then before I see too much of the cows ankles, they get moved right on out. Management is more important than quanity. [/QUOTE]
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