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Little River, TX | There is an exception to that and it is bermudagrass. Granted bermudagrass is fairly well restricted to the lower third of the nation, may be as much as the lower half.
Bermudagrass has both rhizomes and stolen to store carbohydrates.
What can be dangerous is the eye of the manager. Bermudagrass can do well with close grazing but it also needs a period to grow or it will eventually fade into the sunset.
On the other hand, Eastern Gamagrass needs at least an 8 inch stubble.
I understand one Texas rancher uses managed grazing, with 100 acres or so in each paddock. Moves then animals every few days. with a long regrowth period.
A neighbor runs stockers on leased pastures. He moves them, on his own schedule, by trailer. No loading pens, or chutes they just line up and climb on the express to the next pasture.
Then there are the dairy people who go to a fresh paddock after every milking.
Supposedly there is a ranch out of Abilene, TX that has only a boundary fence and manages the grazing with cowboy herding the animals.
Around here most farmers with cattle have one or more bermudagrass pastures, and the animals pretty much have free choice. The management is to feed hay in August and February. Use wheat or oats for winter grazing, and hope for rye grass to appear in the bermudagrass pastures in February. | |
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Question about intensive grazing
