Posted by Don-Wi on January 29, 2010 at 19:44:29 from (75.205.249.10):
My Dad got a call from a guy who's working with him to try to come up with a plan to better manage the farm and the nutrients in the soil etc, and he came up with the idea that our farm would be the perfect canidate for a grazing roatation.
Being that we've been full till traditional farmers for all of our lives, this idea is new to us. I know others do it and plenty of people have done it successfully, including this guy who owns a beef herd, and his dad manages for him.
We're not completly convinced that it would work for us, but at the same time, we're all ears because of the potential cost savings of fuel, not having to do as much feildwork, and less wear & tear on the equipment. Our home farm is about 50 + or - acres of tillable land, plus another 20 or so up the road that would not be able to be grazed, so would go towards our winter feed storage.
Apparantly there are gov. programs that would help with up to $.93 or so per foot of the fence building (either 5 strands electric on wood posts 20' apart, or 1 strand of barbed top & bottom, 3 strands electric in between, and net wire on the outside along the perimiter, right on the property line), plus the costs of building the roads to the pastures, burying the water line, and everything else involved in the process.
There is a 3 day seminar coming up in about 3 weeks about 100 miles away that we're considering going to just to learn more about it.
What do you guys who do it think about it? How does it work on your operation, how many head/acres are involved, and how does it work to still cut some of the pastured land and get a crop from it?
A lot to think about, but still interested in learning more.
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