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Western OK | We don't do enough frequent moves to call it rotational grazing, but we do cut up our pastures in multiple patches to give them rest and hopefully stock up some native range for winter to help lessen the need for so much hay.
One example, took over a quarter of rough rocky native range. The owner, now my landlord, couldn't even run 15 pair all year. Usually he would move a group there after calving for the summer, then pull them off when the grass got used up. We cut the quarter in half with a hot wire, now we easily run 20 pair year round with normal rainfall. For the cost of 1 hot wire it raised the holding capacity by 25%, and the grass is way better. Would have cut it up more but it is so rocky.
Most of our other stuff has enough patches that we move the groups every month or so. Could probably increase capacity more with smaller patches with more moves, but I don't have time to deal with the constant fence building and extra labor dealing with water. Our fences stay up year round. I guess if you had nothing else to do it might pay, but there comes a point of diminished returns.
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Any western range operations rotationally grazing?
