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Implement Rotational Grazing and Plan for Drought

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Regenerative Grazing: Your Spring Grazing Strategy Could Be Dead Wrong

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Implement a rotational grazing system where cows are moved to different, fresh sections of grass every 12 hours. This ensures each paddock gets approximately 45 days of rest, allowing the grass to fully recover and grow tall before being grazed again. Also, save some hay to stall cows if dry spells hit, preventing overgrazing.

Goal: Sustain long-term pasture health and resilience through systematic grazing and contingency planning.

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summer long we rotate the cows every 12 hours on a different one acre section of grass there's 90 different individual paddocks throughout the farm and each padic gets 45 days of rest we save some hay because we may have to stall them again because dry spells hit last June and the June before we had to feed about 15 bales of hay to let the grass catch up so you've got to plan for drought and you've got to plan for your pastures to thrive this is a thriving pasture and we're about 10 days away from getting our cows out on here this was a thriving pasture two days ago and you can see just how much they've taken all that green material off guys the lesson here is don't jump the gun don't get out there don't move your cows onto that fresh green grass just yet because you're going to stunt the growth this is a sacrifice padic for me right here this will get much much more rest and as soon as I move the cows off here I'm going to come in with a drag herrow and I'm going

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