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Know your food: Why Multi Species Pasture for grazing? What's that? #shorts

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Stoney Ridge Farmer

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This video describes the composition and benefits of a multi-species pasture, highlighting how diverse plant life, including various grasses and legumes (cover crops), naturally contributes to soil health and animal nutrition, implicitly aiding in weed suppression. It showcases examples of desirable and undesirable species within such an environment.

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you can see that we are on a pasture but we are not on a strictly grass pasture so there's cerisi lespedeza in here there's clover in here there are all sorts of wild grasses there's this grass we call Purple top there's a undesirable grass right here this is what we call broom sedge or broom straw you'll also see Fescue and all sorts of various wild grasses we want our animals to graze on pastures that are multi-species in other words I don't care how much you like spaghetti and ice cream you can't just eat spaghetti and ice cream or you're going to get sick and the same thing goes with these animals

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