the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
I'm curious as to how well the cattle would "clean up" the native forage,vines etc. And how they perform on it. What kind of trees are there. I don't see pine LOL
There are areas of the country planted with huge pine plantations. I understand that there are zones near the Orinoco River where hundreds of thousands of hectars were planted 30 to 40 years ago and are being harvested today mostly for the construction of furniture.
My Charolais don't do as well on some of the native forage as the mestizos do, that's for sure. Many of the locals, once the rains start falling in the mountains, turn their mestizios loose for about 6 months to make it on their own, and they seem to do quite well eating just about whatever they can find.
Trees? All types, though I've not learned how to ID most of them. The perdominant trees you'll see in the photos of my pastures are what they call
arboles de aceite or literally translated, oil trees. I think they're beautiful with their yellow bark and the branching and canopy reminds me of southern live oak in some ways.
For fence posts, apparently the roble and palo sano are the best, the latter lasting for decades.