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- When it comes to pasture management
it's easy to be an afterthought.
We're gonna talk with Tim Schnakenberg
Regional Extension's Specialist
with University of Missouri.
Tim, what are some of the
best management practices
we can look at for pasture management?
- One of the greatest
best management practices
for pasture is to set
up a managed intensive
grazing system and that would allow us to
have cattle on the move all the time
getting the best quality
forage and then moving on
to another good quality forage paddock
at the same time.
Leaving periods of time
for rest for that pasture
to regrow and thicken up and
be ready for the next time
they're grazing.
One thing that we run into with
management intensive grazing
is we have too much forage at times.
It comes on so fast we can't
get cattle cycled through
the system quick enough
to keep it under control
and that's where a hay operation or
a wrap baleage operation
can be a beneficial
to reset those pastures
and get 'em back to
a vegetative growing status
to where they will be
in better shape going into
the next grazing cycle.
- Any other best management
practices for pastures?
- There's always a careful attention
but when it comes to soil
testing and determine
how much nitrogen is
needed on these pastures,
when to put it on, whether to
use it for a fall stock pile,
then we also need to
watch our weed control
very closely 'cause it can get out of hand
in a hurry.
- Thanks Tim.
Good information.
With a Makin' Hay Minute I'm Bryan Setzer.
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