Karen Tearney
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Great stuff Eric. Where are you? So good to have working examples underway 🙂
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Who wouldn’t want some of this when everything is drying out.
Plantain, well and truly recovered as confirmed by the yellowing lower leaves.
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Some pics of a stockpiled/sabbath area after a graze. One could argue that there’s wasted feed but the soil microbes don’t think so. I’ll be watching to see what regrowth is like under that mulch. These will be the priority green graze areas next season.
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Hey Kate,
The premise is that unless you have exclusively ryegrass and clover paddocks, the stock won’t graze it down to a nice even hight, they’ll graze the best and leave the rest, so grazing it to a certain hight is kind of a mute point. They’ll also eat the leaves first and leave the stems. This can mean inadequate fibre intake at…
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Perennial Pasture Species for High Rainfall Mediterranean Regions
Great work Eric! I’m really interested in how you got them established.. what sort of paddock prep, seeding timing & method?
Also not sure why not going into dormancy is a problem ( perennial rye)?
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Doesn’t the selective grazing really only happen when the stock density is too low? Be great to see a pic of what your paddock looks like when you are ready to move the stock off ..
So are you saying that to leave 5 to 7 cm of fodder behind is too much, better to graze it hard then not come back for 90 days(Eric) or until the bottom leaves are…
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Hi Eric,
Cheers for your input. I couldn’t agree more that the “don’t graze it down too much theory” leads to selective grazing. I’ve done the total grazing course with Jamie Elizondo and got a lot out of it. I’m seeing great benefits from putting the principles into practice in terms of soil health, diversity of species, generation of biomass…
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A couple of photos of the humate and seaweed drums, plus a patch that got a heavy spray whilst we adjusted the spray unit. You can see a solid brown stain on the grass from the extract mix. Maybe we will see super bacteria, fungi and microbes in this area 😬.
Should say if you have a fine screen in the spray unit it will block it up straight…
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You are welcome Brett.. let’s hope the Johnson Su does it’s job!😁
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Managed to do a Johnson Su extract and spray it out over the weekend. Our extract method was to hose approximately 40kg through a screen so only the fine material was utilised <1mm at a guess. We then diluted this fine slurry material into about 900 litres of water and added in 20 litres of humate and 10 litres of seaweed (all I had left…
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