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Implementing Rotational Grazing Principles

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What happens here

After moving the cows, the farmer explains the 'graze one-third, leave one-third, trample one-third' method. This technique stimulates new grass growth and improves soil fertility. He shows the previously grazed paddock, noting how quickly it recovers, and points out areas where Kentucky 32 Fescue grass seed was broadcasted and trampled in by the cows, transforming bare soil into lush pasture. This practice, combined with rolling hay out on the land, creates drought-tolerant land and builds attractive soil.

Goal: The farmer elaborates on the principles of rotational grazing, explaining the 'graze one-third, leave one-third, trample one-third' strategy to promote soil and pasture health.

Tools and materials

  • Bag broadcast seeder
  • Hay bales
  • Kentucky 32 Fescue grass seed

What they say

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the summertime what we do is we graze one third we leave one third and we trample one third and what that does is stimulate pasture growth that's what we're doing here so our grass never gets cut all the way down to the ground you got to think about this if you go out and mow your yard and you mow it down this High what's going to happen it's going to stunt the growth of the grass it's going to burn it up we're making drought tolerant Land This Way guys the cows are on this Paddock they were just over here and you can barely tell it's been grazed aside from the bit of dirt that they've stirred up right here this is a very compacted area it's where they like to hang in the shade but they're putting up butt fertilizer they're actually putting out some right now that's kind of a not so attractive sound that's building some very attractive soil so we're going to move the cows into this next Paddock and I'm going to explain what I've done to this Paddock and we're going to explain how I'm worming the cattle with plants and with charcoal I see fertilizer but it's not in the pasture we got to get this fertilizer out to the pasture kids come on guys flies are normal okay we don't have to give our animals a systemic fly spray we just need to move them away from the Flies soon we'll have chickens going in behind the cows consuming the Flies and the fly larva from the manure so where we're going to move the cows is always centrally located around you're gonna hear some Moon around our water tank here the cows are going to move on to this new section of grass there was no grass here last year at all what I did was took a little bag broadcast Cedar and I went around and I broadcasted Kentucky 32 fescue grass seed right here and I let the cows trample that in along with rolling hay out on the land this was Bare soil last year guys look at this see that dark green see all this wonderful green grass this entire pasture was covered in Weeds and a disaster last year and now look at what we have awesome grass for the girls they're gonna love it now let's go over here there's a stump over here that I'm trying to burn so about I guess about two months ago I came over here and I dropped this big tree this is a big red oak we put the red oak over on The Sawmill so we can make Lumber out of it the rest of it we use for firewood and the rest of it we're using to worm the cattle so everything serves a purpose here on the farm let's go over and show you and then we'll let the cows…

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