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<blockquote data-quote="Banjo" data-source="post: 1331474" data-attributes="member: 17304"><p>Now your talkin. The water bill won't be that bad if you do water them with city water.</p><p>More importantly ......why are you giving 16 hd plus calves an acre a day with daily moves? I've got one group of 70 cows that i'm only giving an acre a day now that the grass is comin on. I'm doing that acre with 2 to 3 daily moves.</p><p>At the very most I wouldn't give yours over a half acre a day and probably more like a 1/4 acre/day if you have decent grass.</p><p>I know the argument...... moving them around every 21 or 22 days will keep the grass vegetative and all that. Unless you plan on mowing it every week or two its going to head out.....regardless. That's the whole nature of a plant....to reproduce.....so why not let it?</p><p>Short rotations....3 to 4 weeks will work in the summer, if you don't mind feeding hay all winter. Short rotations will keep ur grass short and will almost assuredly make sure you have no grass this winter......assuming you have cool season grasses like fescue and orchardgrass or even ryegrass.</p><p>The major benefit to IRG is saving money buy not feeding as much hay in the winter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Banjo, post: 1331474, member: 17304"] Now your talkin. The water bill won't be that bad if you do water them with city water. More importantly ......why are you giving 16 hd plus calves an acre a day with daily moves? I've got one group of 70 cows that i'm only giving an acre a day now that the grass is comin on. I'm doing that acre with 2 to 3 daily moves. At the very most I wouldn't give yours over a half acre a day and probably more like a 1/4 acre/day if you have decent grass. I know the argument...... moving them around every 21 or 22 days will keep the grass vegetative and all that. Unless you plan on mowing it every week or two its going to head out.....regardless. That's the whole nature of a plant....to reproduce.....so why not let it? Short rotations....3 to 4 weeks will work in the summer, if you don't mind feeding hay all winter. Short rotations will keep ur grass short and will almost assuredly make sure you have no grass this winter......assuming you have cool season grasses like fescue and orchardgrass or even ryegrass. The major benefit to IRG is saving money buy not feeding as much hay in the winter. [/QUOTE]
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