38 days and we’re ready to graze!

[@chersmith3181]

Great to see this! Thanks so much for sharing!

[@kfhlsctt]

Are you getting any red clover coming in? Here at my place in Kansas brome takes over the fescue. Love your videos.

[@runningtfarmsnc]

Yes we have a good amount of red clover in our other pastures that we’ve been managing longer.

[@tickcreekranch]

Any word on how many cow days on this pasture yet?

[@runningtfarmsnc]

Looks like it’s going to be between 125-150 on average for the second pass. I’ll finish it up this week and get a final figure on the whole area for a better average.

[@tickcreekranch]

@@runningtfarmsnc awesome thanks Josh

[@davidjarboe3187]

Would it not be better to graze or clip that really mature stand at least once to make better winter feed?

[@runningtfarmsnc]

We have found it works pretty well to just let it go. We don’t have the added cost of mowing we recharge the seed bank and those dry stems will leave a little extra cover on the soil post grazing.

[@timshirk6261]

Looks good Josh ! How many acres of mature grass do you have and will all of lay like that for the summer for winter stock pile ? I assume by winter most of that brown growth for be carbon for the soil surface and there will be new green growth by then which will be very nutrient dense

[@runningtfarmsnc]

We will likely have around 350-400 acres of season long stockpile. If we continue to get favorable rain. It always depends on the rain.

[@timshirk6261]

@@runningtfarmsnc so depending on the rains are you on average doing hard non selective grazing multiple times in a year and then following year letting it mature out and rest ?

[@danielphillips1094]

​@@timshirk6261the idea is to nonselectively graze half and let the other half rest all season. You alternate the areas, so that the nutrient bank in the roots has time to build back and all the other good stuff that comes with rest.

[@zhostetler3]

How do u figure cow days/acre and what is the meaning of it? I’m used to hearing stock density and stocking rate

[@runningtfarmsnc]

I use a Large Livestock Unit which is 1000 lbs of live weight. So I simply take the weight of the herd we’re grazing and divide by 1000 to determine how many LLU I have and then determine how many acres it takes to feed them for one day. Usually we’re grazing less than an acre per day so you just have to extrapolate that out to a full acre.

[@zhostetler3]

@@runningtfarmsnc 👍

[@johnkey3173]

greetings! just starting out on rotational grazing.. do you use a portable solar charger?

[@runningtfarmsnc]

Sometimes but I much prefer a plug in one if possible. The more powerful the better. We use 24 joule Kencove fence chargers on most of our fences. The only time I use our solar fencer is when I can’t use the other.