Pasture Rotation Practices

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Typically, I like to go about three weeks or longer between them. Pretty easy. Set it up so there’s a water trap and the cows go down there.

I can go down, take a dog down, and have them all moved in a matter of minutes with one person and have them into the next pasture. And it does improve weight gain on calves. I’ve seen that for about the last three years now.

It will add pounds just doing the rotational grazing and the longevity of the pastures. You got the same amount of acres, but the longevity of it. You know, you get some rain or even if you don’t, typical years, you can probably almost get almost another 30 days of grazing out of the same amount of acres by doing the rotational grazing.

Splitting one big pasture up into three different pastures and just moving them around like that. We don’t graze anything super intense. Blunt South Dakota breeder JD Lowing.

That’s going to do it for today’s program. Thanks again for listening and may God bless. I’m Brian Hale.