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Optimize Pasture Management and Spreading Technique

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What a mess! Let's get out the BIG TRACTOR!

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Effective manure spreading requires strategic pasture management. Before spreading, consider using temporary electric fencing, such as polywire with step-in posts, to create smaller grazing cells for livestock. This concentrates manure in specific areas. Once the animals are moved, remove sections of the temporary fencing to create wider, more open paths for the tractor and drag harrow. This allows for more efficient, longer passes and reduces the need for frequent tight turns, which can waste fuel and time. Drive the tractor in a cross-hatch or circular pattern to maximize manure dispersal, aiming to break down large manure pats into fine particles that quickly integrate into the soil, enhancing nutrient cycling and pasture growth. It's crucial to pay attention to terrain changes, adjusting the harrow's height with the tractor's hydraulics to avoid damaging the implement or creating uneven spread.

Goal: Implement strategic pasture management techniques, including temporary fencing, and optimize the drag harrowing pattern for efficient manure dispersal.

Tools and materials

  • Polywire
  • Step-in Posts
  • TYM T1104 Tractor

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as I'm bouncing around the tractor here I want you to understand there's a lot of thought process going on in my head I'm working levers right here I'm bringing the Harrow up and down because when you go down in a dip Common Sense tells you as the rear of the tractor dips down the back of the Harrow will dip down and you can bend that Arrow so you've got to really pay attention the goal is basically to swirl around the manure and that's it so we're going to cross this way we're going to cross that way and the more we turn around in the pasture in a circular motion the more this manure gets spread out and the goal is to take a manure pad that might be four or five inches high and take it down to about a quarter inch and spread it out over the land this is work this is my second year in practice on this I saw some improvements in the pasture last year and our most precious resource on the farm is our manure and our soil and that's what this is all about guys so I'm really making progress here on the farm no fertilizer has been put on this land for nearly six years simply by buying that hay that you see back there and feeding it to the cows and letting the cows do the fertilizing so instead of spending 25 Grand in fertilizer I'm spending ten thousand dollars a year and hey the cows are getting fatter the land is getting richer and my life is better so we're gonna cruise on back through here we've got about one more round to make scattering turds and we'll take a look at it

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