IluvABbeef":25jfwgn3 said:
like have the cattle take only 10 to 20% off AT THE MOST. The grass needs time to deposit a root system and if you graze it nice and light like this, or not graze at all, by the next year you'll have a somewhat established root system. Even by next year it'll be wise to use the take half-leave half or take 40% leave 60% principle for next grazing season.
Karin, I could be wrong; but he is in Louisiana and perennial rye grass (unless there is a new cultivar I have missed) don't do real good down here in the heat. We plant ryegrass as an annual, usually drilled right into a summer sod (like bermudagrass, bahia, or dallisgrass) since the ryegrass can handle 42 degree nights that the summer grasses can't. IF this is annual ryegrass (and we really need to know that info), there is no next year. Graze it on and off like you said from now to the end of January; but once it warms up some in February (and certainly by the 10th of March) let the cows go at it like you would a fescue stand.