(Continued from Page C 4) balanced cropping program can help keep your paddocks producing a crop most of the year. Any field that the herd can walk to within a mile should be considered for grazing. The backbone crop for pasture systems is cool season grasses mixed with clovers. I personally prefer the perennial ryegrass, orchardgrass, and clover mixtures as the base program. Perennial ryegrass is fast establishing and its quality is great. How ever, it falls short on summer productivity during dry hotter weather. Orchardgrass is long lived if managed properly and takes the extremes better. The clovers add quali ty, nitrogen fixation, and summer yields. The forage species need to fit your situa tion, however, as your soils and manage ment may be suited to other species. To supplement the summer slump and See Binftcley & Hurst Bros. Inc. For All Vour Hey & Forage Ec«u~ Binkley & Hurst Bros. 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A basic guide for the first time you grow this crop is: don’t put out more than one acre for every 10 cows unless you are prepared to make stored forage. Winter active crops such as Italian rye grass, annual ryegrass, and small grains can also be used to stretch the grazing months. They can also be easily double cropped with the warm season annuals. The Land Base is critical for making the system work. If too little pasture is available and the paddocks are abused, than it may be better to keep the cows in the barn and bring the feed to the cows. An adequate Land Base also depends on management. If cows are only turned out six to 10 hours a day and fed lots in the barn, you may get by with as little as 'A acres per cow. If you plan to turn the cows out most of the day, Vi to a little over 1 acre per cow is needed depending on how much stored forage is fed. Soil type, drainage, and fertility can also affect the Land Base required. High-pro ducing pastures require good soil fertility. 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She requires good feet and legs since she is required to walk as far as a mile to paddocks and, during the act of grazing, she is walking slowly, swinging her head back and forth. Probably the ideal grazing cow is around 1,000 pounds in weight. Big cows tend not to do as well. Jerseys and Jersey crosses perform well but there are many other breeds that have potential, including the cows in your own herd. Holsteins can also be very good graz ers, but hot weather is not their strong point and there is a higher percentage of what I call “TMR queens” in most Hol stein herds. Over time cows that are not good grazers will be culled out of the sys tem. The Manager: You hold the keys to suc cess. Learn about the system before leap ing by attending pasture walks, meetings, reading grazing papers such as Graze, and learning from successful neighbors. But 133 Rothsville Station Rd. P.O. 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The success of a grazing system is up to the manager to make it happen. For many it is an enjoyable way of farming. Re search it and give it a try. You may enjoy putting the pieces of the puzzle together and the daily game of grazing chess. It does not cost much to try, and if you don’t like it move on to something else. If you are just starting, remember that livestock makes the money not barns; silos, and equipment. Keep these costs as low as pos sible. But don’t shoot yourself in the foot by cutting out profit makers. 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