MB, Canada | WCWI - 5/24/2025 07:49
I guess I am in the second camp, problem I see with only taking half is the cows do not stop eating at half the height, they go to the ground on the species they like and leave the stuff they do not like as well knee high, you do it long enough and what will you get then.......more of what they do not like so then you either clip of spray your pastures, at least here, brittle environment I am pretty sure would be way different situation .
The key here is to remove them before they've grazed the species they like to the ground. If that means only letting them get their first bite or two on the preferred species then that's what you gotta do.
The fallacy I often see promoted by the total graze crowd is that if you graze one species of grass and leave another entirely, the non-grazed one will take over. That's true is your overgraze the preferred species, but otherwise the act of grazing will make it stronger. Grass is like a muscle--if you don't work it out at all, it gets weaker. If you work it too much, you can injure it. Hit it with the right amount of stress, and it'll grow stronger. In the case of that grass plant that means putting down deeper roots and sending out more tillers. |
Rotational grazing in Missouri
