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  • 02-03-2012 10:08am
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    i have a square of ground that i sat kale last year and turnips the year before in so i dont want to sow them again.the thing is its not big enough to graze on its own,its too rough to cut but the cattle winter fierce happy there with all the nubs and bushes.just wondering is there anything else i could set there that they can graze during the winter.i was thinking about beet, maybe some of that soft lower yeidling stuff.any ideas


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    how about sowing a westerwolds grass and differ grazing it.

    suppose to be a very aggrasive grower for short term leys and would be cheap to establish.
    if you closed it in august it would have a nice bank of grass there for you.
    your biggest challange would be keeping it grazed tight enough from sowing to closing.

    going to do somthing simular here shorthly with our calving paddock that gets abused yearly.


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    49801 wrote: »
    how about sowing a westerwolds grass and differ grazing it.

    suppose to be a very aggrasive grower for short term leys and would be cheap to establish.
    if you closed it in august it would have a nice bank of grass there for you.
    your biggest challange would be keeping it grazed tight enough from sowing to closing.

    going to do somthing simular here shorthly with our calving paddock that gets abused yearly.
    its a block on its own so its suits fine to drive the weanlings there 1 dec and out again15/20 of feb but dont want to be driving cattle there every so often for grazing.what do you mean by "differ"grazing


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    sorry my spellings was way off... i ment deferred grazing
    this where you close the ground up very early and allow a good bank of grass to build up. you could just let them loose on teh entire area but you could strip graze it and get much better utilisation.
    have a read off of fwi http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/04/11/2011/129884/Deferred-grazing-could-reduce-winter-feed-costs.htm


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