How Regenerative Farms Work: Grazing Plan For Winter #farming #farmer #cow

So each one of these pastures is segmented off into 1 acre to 3/4 acre paddics, 1 acre to 3/4 acre sections. Okay? When it's hot in the hot summer, we make sure the cows have access to shade. When it's below 80°, 80 82, we really don't have to worry about shade so much. So this section right here is set up into wedges. Again, wedge, wedge, wedge. I think it's like six wedges all the way up through here. Over the next four days, I'll be opening up these wedges and I'll be reeling in all of this polywire. The reason I'm doing that is first so that the cows have a larger area to graze. Secondly, so when I get my hay in, I can stash my hay where it's going to go, where it's going to be rolled out. Now, I roll out hay all winter long here on the Stony Ridge Farm. We stay away from conventional fertilizers and we do our very best to farm naturally. So, I'm bringing hay to the land and putting that carbon down. It takes about two to three years to start seeing the results of rolling hay out on your pastures. You don't see any bare spots right here. And every bit of this land that you see, all of it, every single bit of it was bare at one