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<blockquote data-quote="Northern Rancher" data-source="post: 378748" data-attributes="member: 5898"><p>There is no magic answer for stocking rate when you are dealing with something as dynamic as grass growth and as cruel a taskmaster as mother nature. It's best to start out with baby steps and maybe leave some grass then swing for the fence and go bust. I've seen some colossal wrecks with rotational grazing-in fact I've authored a few myself over the years. Our area for example has explosive growth in late May and June-20 hours of daylight etc. Most people load up with a class of cattle that can be sold as the growth slows-ex ship dry cows in late june-ship grass yearlings in August. When things go bad and they will go bad eventually-drought,frost, gerasshoppers etc you must be able to adjust stocking rate,</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Northern Rancher, post: 378748, member: 5898"] There is no magic answer for stocking rate when you are dealing with something as dynamic as grass growth and as cruel a taskmaster as mother nature. It's best to start out with baby steps and maybe leave some grass then swing for the fence and go bust. I've seen some colossal wrecks with rotational grazing-in fact I've authored a few myself over the years. Our area for example has explosive growth in late May and June-20 hours of daylight etc. Most people load up with a class of cattle that can be sold as the growth slows-ex ship dry cows in late june-ship grass yearlings in August. When things go bad and they will go bad eventually-drought,frost, gerasshoppers etc you must be able to adjust stocking rate, [/QUOTE]
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