Rotational Grazing and Regenerative Agriculture with Livestock

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To save myself a ton of money purchasing feed for my animals, an insane amount of time caring for and tending to my livestock, and to improve my land all at the same time, I’ve started practicing rotational grazing. By taking one big pasture and breaking it up into a bunch of tiny pastures we can actually use livestock to mimic the enormous grazing herds that occurred historically grasslands, using intensive rotational grazing. Large herds of livestock, on small pastures, disrupting the soil with their hooves, eating grass and other plants in masse at the proper point in their lifecycle to encourage Re-growth rather than overgrowth, and leaving their manure in the soil to fertilize it for short, intense periods causes plant life to multiply, soil health to improve, and traps carbon inside the soil. Following the livestock with chickens keeps fly and parasite populations in the pastures down as well as aerates and continues to fertilize the grass. Joel Salatin, of Polyface farm, local grandfather of rotational grazing, practicing intense rotational grazing on his farm has increased his pasture’s ability to sustain a cow from 80 days of grazing per cow per acre, to 400 days of grazing per cow per acre. In that way, he’s actually multiplied the pasture he has available many times over, without purchasing a single extra acre of land. We start with livestock, set electric netting, and let them graze for a few days. Then, we follow with chickens, and finally, a finish mow, which stops weeds from going to seed and gives new seeds the mulch they need to trap moisture to germinate and the access to sunlight to grow.

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