Comments on: Pasture Explosion http://www.franciscanfamilyfarms.com/2009/03/26/pasture-explosion/ No hormones. No antibiotics. No subsidies. Just real food for real people. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:13:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steven http://www.franciscanfamilyfarms.com/2009/03/26/pasture-explosion/comment-page-1/#comment-180 Steven Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:18:20 +0000 http://www.franciscanfamilyfarms.com/?p=231#comment-180 Joy is putting it mildly. If there is something I haven't like about the farming experience so far, it's wintering the cattle on hay, near the barn. The true joy is moving the herd each day to a fresh salad bar of grass. Although a good portion of the pasture looks like the pasture, there is some area that is much more sparse, and there is the Bermuda paddock that is of course still dry and brown. I'm not sure what caused some of the pasture to not do as well, it could be the soil quality in that area, or the amount of seed that it got (the guy that drilled the pasture had trouble with the seeding rate), or it could even be partially due to how it was managed last year. There was alot of "weeds" in that area last year and I let them really mow down the weeds and of course the good forages were eaten very low too. This is valuable information for how to care for this pasture in the future, but it's even more valuable when we think about expanding and seeding more acreage one day! Joy is putting it mildly. If there is something I haven’t like about the farming experience so far, it’s wintering the cattle on hay, near the barn. The true joy is moving the herd each day to a fresh salad bar of grass. Although a good portion of the pasture looks like the pasture, there is some area that is much more sparse, and there is the Bermuda paddock that is of course still dry and brown. I’m not sure what caused some of the pasture to not do as well, it could be the soil quality in that area, or the amount of seed that it got (the guy that drilled the pasture had trouble with the seeding rate), or it could even be partially due to how it was managed last year. There was alot of “weeds” in that area last year and I let them really mow down the weeds and of course the good forages were eaten very low too.
This is valuable information for how to care for this pasture in the future, but it’s even more valuable when we think about expanding and seeding more acreage one day!

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