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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
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renovate worn pasture, consider planting
warm season annuals such as BMR
(brown midrib) sorghum sudans. 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
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Good grazing management in combination
with a soil program will increase soil or
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productivity and decreases wet weather
damage. Stocking rates can be increased,
or supplemental feeding decreased, as soil
productivity increases.
The Cow obviously is critical to grazing.
Remember she is the worker and you me
the boss sending her to the right fields with
lots of high quality forage for her to turn
into milk. A good grazing cow is a mobile
eating machine. 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
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just like swimming, eventually you have to
jump in and really find out for yourself.
There are a growing number of support
people in the universities, governmental
organizations, and private industry that
have solid experience. Use them and expe
rienced graziers to your benefit. You don’t
have to learn everything the hard way.
Grazing requires daily management and
flexible forward planning. Instead of chas
ing The Crop to the cows your are chasing
the cows to The Crop. A successful man
ager is planning forward for today, tomor
row, next week, next month, next year and
beyond. Grazing is very similar to the
game of chess. A lot of moves must be
made to succeed, but there are many ways
to succeed.
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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