Thursday, March 28, 2024
HomeGrazing ManagementMonitoring What's Left Behind In Your Pastures

Monitoring What’s Left Behind In Your Pastures

Here’s part three in this series of videos by Dave Scott of Montana Highland Lamb (Home Grown & Happy) in Whitehall Montana and ATTRA’s National Center for Appropriate Technology in Butte, Montana.

Sometimes things don’t go as well as you’d hoped even though you were trying your best to manage and meet a particular pasture growth goal.  In this case, Dave is managing his pastures to leave a 6 to 8 inch residual. That’s good for grass regrowth and good for the soil. For the most part, things go really smoothly and he meets his goals. But in one paddock, there’s one little 20 x 100 foot patch that grows differently, and the sheep graze it and hammer it. The good news that comes from this is that it provides an opportunity for you to see the difference between Dave’s successful management and overgrazing. He shows you how there’s no litter to feed the soil microbes, and no shade to keep them from getting too hot and dying. So take 5 minutes, check out the video, and then ask yourself, “Do I have some areas like this that need a little more attention?”

Enjoy!

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This is the second in the series.  If you missed the first, here it is!

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Kathy Voth
Kathy Vothhttps://onpasture.com
I am the founder, editor and publisher of On Pasture, now retired. My career spanned 40 years of finding creative solutions to problems, and sharing ideas with people that encouraged them to work together and try new things. From figuring out how to teach livestock to eat weeds, to teaching range management to high schoolers, outdoor ed graduation camping trips with fifty 6th graders at a time, building firebreaks with a 130-goat herd, developing the signs and interpretation for the Storm King Fourteen Memorial trail, receiving the Conservation Service Award for my work building the 150-mile mountain bike trail from Grand Junction, Colorado to Moab, Utah...well, the list is long so I'll stop with, I've had a great time and I'm very grateful.

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