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<blockquote data-quote="boondocks" data-source="post: 1260906" data-attributes="member: 20599"><p>Thanks Nesi and all for the comments/suggestions/links/</p><p></p><p>Lucky, I'm interested in the countervailing arguments <em>against</em> dragging the pasture. (It's not like I'm looking for extra work to do, and I ain't got a kid laying around anymore. Darn thing lit out for college). If you<em> don't</em> spread out the manure, how do you keep the amount of grazable land from shrinking? Even if you use intensive grazing, they are in a smaller plot for a lesser period of time, so the manure per square foot doesn't really drastically change (food in, poo out), right? </p><p></p><p>As we have noticed and the extension agent pointed out, anywhere there has been a bit of manure in remotely recent history, the cows leave that patch of grass alone. It also takes a while to break down and new grass to come up there. With the short growing seasons we have here, I can't take a whole field out of commission and let it rest and break down on its own for 2 years....</p><p></p><p>Does whether it is worth the effort to drag it maybe depend a bit on the local climate???</p><p>Thanks!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="boondocks, post: 1260906, member: 20599"] Thanks Nesi and all for the comments/suggestions/links/ Lucky, I'm interested in the countervailing arguments [i]against[/i] dragging the pasture. (It's not like I'm looking for extra work to do, and I ain't got a kid laying around anymore. Darn thing lit out for college). If you[i] don't[/i] spread out the manure, how do you keep the amount of grazable land from shrinking? Even if you use intensive grazing, they are in a smaller plot for a lesser period of time, so the manure per square foot doesn't really drastically change (food in, poo out), right? As we have noticed and the extension agent pointed out, anywhere there has been a bit of manure in remotely recent history, the cows leave that patch of grass alone. It also takes a while to break down and new grass to come up there. With the short growing seasons we have here, I can't take a whole field out of commission and let it rest and break down on its own for 2 years.... Does whether it is worth the effort to drag it maybe depend a bit on the local climate??? Thanks! [/QUOTE]
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