Optimize Grazing Management

indiscriminately start cutting them what we have found out folks is we try and graze around all of our farms twice in the wintertime in the non-growing season we'll get two rotations so as long as they don't take it all now in that first rotation those cows are thriving they're getting the very best so on the second rotation around your farm how do you make sure they don't lose weight because the good stuff is gone you got to give them a bigger piece so you're making up for quality with quantity given more of it and there's still not enough food there to keep that cow working well you might need to give her a molasses lick and you can tell look at the cow pass if they start getting thin on you your stockpile is no good you can't starve a profit out of a cow and the beautiful thing about fescue is in the in the sun spring late winter early spring what we call march mud month josh you ever had a mud month in there yeah it's pretty bad isn't it you just can't keep them out of the mud fescue it's your friend it can be a curse and it can be a friend what i mean by the curse is kentucky 31 that's what this is endophyte infected fescue so it's got an endophyte in there and the endo fights in there to keep the cows from overgrazing it if you don't graze kentucky 31 down short the worst toxin is in that first one to two inches that comes out of the ground right above ground that first two inches well don't grace your pasture short they're not getting pretty much of that toxin okay so that first two inches don't graze fescue short in the winter and you'll get by pretty good if you have a cow that does get affected by fescue she starts limping real bad she never gets over it you got a celery but the