Avoid Over-Pruning or Over-Grazing

making better quality forage now what does this mean what happens when it rains do you guys see when we have a very dry spell in the summertime and we have this everywhere Wyoming Idaho Utah it doesn't matter if you're in Indiana it doesn't matter where you are right here in North Carolina Southwest Virginia you're going to have dry times every single year and you need to know that if you've got animals you're probably going to have to feed a little bit of hay you're going to have to stretch the time out between grazing periods and it's very very important to not overg graze Andor if we're talking about your lawn to over prune in other words grazing is pruning and clipping your yard is pruning and mowing your pastures is pruning you want to keep at least five Ines 5 to six Ines of good quality Forge or good quality lawn up you want to keep those solar panels up that sun is still feeding that plant and that plant needs that sunlight to drive those root systems into the ground so here's what I do do when it comes to the hot hot summertime which it is right now today's high temperature is going to be about 94° here's what we do we don't move the cows on to New Pasture every single time we choose a point in our farm that the cows have plenty of shade plenty of access to water and we simply sacrifice it we simply overg graze it and we sacrifice it when we overg graze it we are stunting the growth of that Gra grass also when we overg graze it we are stunting the root system of that grass so you've got to think about that now I