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Pictures from the morning rounds

Grassfarmer

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A few pictures from my morning rounds - checking cows before it got too hot.
Checking the cull cow group.
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They are on an old kentucky blue grass/ creeping red fescue stand.
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Normally the default pasture species that prevail under over-grazing conditions they can be very productive if properly managed.
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Onto another group in a bush pasture - hey who did this to the trees?
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Are you trying to frame me?
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Lets take another look - maybe "Mr Beaver" as my daughter likes to say!
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Another construction project completed by Mr Beaver & Co
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Lots to graze in this pasture - sedges, quack grass, slough grass, bluegrass the variety is endless
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Plenty of browse too and my cattle love to balance out their diet with browse
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My grass measuring stick - had her nearly 3 years now!
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Heading home - and a reminder we are in a drought. Neighbors hay running at under a bale per acre. Better land, fertilised, same rainfall, nutrient removal problems
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A typical bluegrass/ creeping red fescue pasture in my area - maybe an inch high :shock: :shock:
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per

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Hey Grassfarmer, I tend to loose my measuring stick once in a while. :) Yours is going to be a challenge to you each year keeping the grass neck high. :? Good grass management-priceless. You talk of the nutrient removal. Our Alfalfa stands also did one bale per acre. All of the bales that came off of it have been fed back onto it plus some. It was not short because the nutrients were taken off. My pastures look like yours as well. Good grazing management is better agronomically for the grass than mechanical intervention in my opinion.
 

Grassfarmer

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OK Per you got me there - maybe my assumption on the nutrient removal was an inaccurate generalization. In this case the guys sell hay every year - rarely feed any at home and if they do they feed it in the bush where my cows are grazing in the pictures. I guess litter is a big factor too - mechanically harvesting tends to take it all off down to a certain height rather than grazing where the cows always trample some long material in. I'm guessing cutting hay off in this hot weather also gives the plants quite a shock - removes their shade overnight and weakens their ability to photosynthesise at the same time.
 

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