Educator Mark Tupman
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Reply to Do Annual Cover Crop Mixes Have a Place in Grazing Programs
Hi Vanessa,
Yes, it is quite hard to source such mixes ready made. We get custom mixes like this one made up for clients in bulk through Nutrien Ag/Bells but the order has to be over 500kg.
The goodies mix makes for a good base and yes, adding some of the other species mentioned and some clover is a good idea.
The thing is, most types of seed…
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Do Annual Cover Crop Mixes Have a Place in Grazing Programs
We’re at that time of year where many farmers are thinking about seeding pastures.
One of the hot topics lately has been around the use of multi species cover crops in grazing operations.
The issue is that many of the species used in cover crop mixes are not very graze tolerant and they must be allowed to reach the latter stages of maturity if…
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Mark Tupman posted an update in the group
9 months agoPerennial & Biodiverse Pastures 9 months agoA good article by incitec pivot sighting the potential negative effects of putting too much soluble N or P in with seeds at planting.
Ivan Pagano5 Comments-
They don’t talk about it in the article but what about the impact on soil biology or the potential disincentive for seedlings to develop healthy relationships with soil biology for future nutritional benefits…
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Hot off the press, James White back for another round on the Regenerative Agriculture Podcast.
Such exciting, valuable and relevant information.
Cheers Steve Slape for the heads up.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/regenerative-agriculture-podcast/id1372359995?i=1000641245773
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Show Regenerative Agriculture Podcast, Ep Episode 99: Reshaping How Agriculture Sees Plant Nutrient Uptake With Dr. James White - 10 Jan 2024
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I did a lot of trials with grazing last year while I was doing the Jaime Elizondo total grazing course and I wanted to share an observation re grazing annual species in a Mediterranean environment.
What I noticed is that the animals happily grazed most of the vegetative forage early in the season, but were prone to scours etc. so did better…
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So you mean that mid growing season mob should be eating down to past golfball height & not returning until well past beer can height .. assuming mob density is at the right level for an even graze.??
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Probably not lower than golfball but, depending on the plant species, heights above a beer can 🙂
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I recently signed up to the stockman grass farmer mailing list.
They put out some great info for livestock farmers.
The article in this edition by Steve Kenyon gets right into some of the subject matter we’ve been discussing in this group. Well worth a read.
https://www.stockmangrassfarmer.digital/profile
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Reply to How to Avoid Overgrazing
Great stuff Eric. Where are you? So good to have working examples underway 🙂
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Reply to How to Avoid Overgrazing
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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Reply to How to Avoid Overgrazing
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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