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Re: Grazing- Who does it?


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Posted by Bill(Wis) on January 30, 2010 at 10:11:41 from (75.97.78.255):

In Reply to: Grazing- Who does it? posted by Don-Wi on January 29, 2010 at 19:44:29:

We had dairy cattle in Wis for 70 years and always combined grazing with tilled crops. That works the best, especially if you have land or can access (rent?) nearby land that is suitable. The only kind of grazing that could be done in cold weather would be a very hardy breed such as the Highlanders on "Winter Hardy Alfalfa" and then when the snow gets 3 feet deep that would be a problem. Otherwise, the deer have no problem getting through 2 feet of snow down to that nice green stuff. Have you seen it? Unbelievable. My dad followed a program with the dairy cows that has gone out of vogue and no one does it anymore but at one time was the Univ W recommended program and that was to have the cows freshen in Sep/Oct and stand dry in Jul/Aug. That way, you get the advantage of turning cows nearing the end of their lactation cycle out on fresh, lush, green pasture the first week of June. You'll get an increase in milk production that will astonish you for that last month. Then, those dry cows have nice pasture all summer. We turned them out on hay fields after baling and let them clean up the leftovers (broken bales, missed corners, fencelines, etc.), for a day or two. My dad used to let them graze along side the road a few times during the summer. They kept the roadsides trimmed really nice. He'd put the collie dog on one end and he'd sit in a lawn chair in the shade on the other end and read books, just to keep them on our section of road (about a mile). But we still needed thousands of bales of hay and granaries and silos full to feed those holsteins through the winter.


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