I think this is wonderful.... i don’t own cows or acres yet...but this is the true natural way before big industry took over-....but just that fact that these farmers are saving and curing the soil and raising healthy cows and producing a better milk products is phenomenal ! Much respect to these farmers...thank you! 🙏🤩 I was insulted on face book for trying to educate people that this method is much better....
Lord bless them for making the right choice. I know how hard that is to do for farmers who have kept cows in barns with no grass to switch to pasture. I'm really proud of these guys and would like to meet them. I worked on a dairy for a year and a half. I hated the work but loved the cows which is what kept me there so long. Now I dream of getting my own cow so that I can watch her graze with her calf. 😍
Perhaps it's that smaller framed animals tend to be hardier and lower maintenance regardless of management system. Small bodied cows can milk well into their teens under well managed intensive conditions, whereas a 2300 lb Holstein is going to crash somewhere in her second lactation because she has to work so hard maintain that frame size on top of milk production. There are pros and cons to every management system, but it's important to acknowledge the impact of genetic selection on dairy breeds, not just the environment they live in.
can't understand why this seems to be like new information it has bin show in nz and Ireland and in the UK for years that this is by far the most profitable system after producing milk and I am not s tree hugger I like driving my tractor as much as the next farmer but I think a healthy bank account is just as important. if anyone is interested in this systems they should visit nz of Ireland and go to some of the intensity grazing dairy farms they are an eye opener
When I was growing up we did graze our Dairy Herd in summer, but still fed grain while milking. how do you graze in winter? We kept our cows in the barn and fed them in winter. My point being you have to grow feed for winter so you can't graze your whole farm? So, the amount of land you have dictates the size of your herd. To have a herd big enough to make a living on the farm you must have hundreds of acres? I took over our family farm but was overcome by Silage gas which changed my body chemistry and I became Allergic to cow hair, corn dust, hay dust, etc. i had to quit farming and sold out in 1978. i have regretted that all my life!
Never let your grass get that short. Never graze off more than a third. Never graze again until the grass has grown back. Keeping the grass big lets it grow at maximum speed, heals the soil, and can double the number of cows you can have, more than doubling your income.
I think this is wonderful.... i don’t own cows or acres yet...but this is the true natural way before big industry took over-....but just that fact that these farmers are saving and curing the soil and raising healthy cows and producing a better milk products is phenomenal ! Much respect to these farmers...thank you! 🙏🤩
I was insulted on face book for trying to educate people that this method is much better....
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Lord bless them for making the right choice. I know how hard that is to do for farmers who have kept cows in barns with no grass to switch to pasture. I'm really proud of these guys and would like to meet them. I worked on a dairy for a year and a half. I hated the work but loved the cows which is what kept me there so long. Now I dream of getting my own cow so that I can watch her graze with her calf. 😍
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Perhaps it's that smaller framed animals tend to be hardier and lower maintenance regardless of management system. Small bodied cows can milk well into their teens under well managed intensive conditions, whereas a 2300 lb Holstein is going to crash somewhere in her second lactation because she has to work so hard maintain that frame size on top of milk production. There are pros and cons to every management system, but it's important to acknowledge the impact of genetic selection on dairy breeds, not just the environment they live in.
can't understand why this seems to be like new information it has bin show in nz and Ireland and in the UK for years that this is by far the most profitable system after producing milk and I am not s tree hugger I like driving my tractor as much as the next farmer but I think a healthy bank account is just as important. if anyone is interested in this systems they should visit nz of Ireland and go to some of the intensity grazing dairy farms they are an eye opener
What do you do about the wet weather,muddy lanes OR dry weather as we had this year etc.
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Good on them learning the nz way of farming
When I was growing up we did graze our Dairy Herd in summer, but still fed grain while milking. how do you graze in winter? We kept our cows in the barn and fed them in winter. My point being you have to grow feed for winter so you can't graze your whole farm? So, the amount of land you have dictates the size of your herd. To have a herd big enough to make a living on the farm you must have hundreds of acres?
I took over our family farm but was overcome by Silage gas which changed my body chemistry and I became Allergic to cow hair, corn dust, hay dust, etc. i had to quit farming and sold out in 1978. i have regretted that all my life!
How much land does it take to graze a 40 cow herd??
Varies widely. Optimal - maybe 80. Desert - maybe 400or more
Never let your grass get that short. Never graze off more than a third. Never graze again until the grass has grown back. Keeping the grass big lets it grow at maximum speed, heals the soil, and can double the number of cows you can have, more than doubling your income.