Enjoying spring yet?

[ALLFARMER]

The Grassfarmer manifesto

-tell everyone there doing it wrong
-tell everyone your doing it right
- don't say how many acres per cow you run
- don't say how many acres you run
- don't say how many cows you run
- don't say what kind of tractor you drive
- don't say what varieties of magic "year round
growing grass" you espouse the virtues of

[ASRG]

It looks like we are going to be blessed with a little more winter this weekend......10 to 20 cm of snow and strong winds!
Alberta....just another day in paradise!

[grassfarmer]

Man I'm slow. Should have figured Allfarmer and
Burnt were the same person a while ago, lol.

Allfarmer if you are so concerned about my stocking
rate here is a little exercise for you. From the grass
grown in 2012 season we maintained the cows by
grazing for 280 days and feeding for 85 days. Our
production harvested by grazing ranged from 7 Auds
to 128 Auds per acre. Our silage produced 10.7 tons
per acre on average. You tell me how many acres it
takes me to run a cow.

[Horse]

GF Sory about all this controversity I was just corious so if there is something out there I could use to help my operation. I still dont get it like this yr the snow is deep and crusted pretty bad around xmas so if I was grazing I still would have to have found feed now if I hadnt put up extra feed I am kind of stuck.

[grassfarmer]

That's a valid concern with this system Horse, no
doubt about it. Another good reason not to have all
your eggs in one basket. Having done it for a few
years I plan around feeding cows for 100 days and
can usually accomplish that in this area. I wouldn't
dream of planning around an empty bale yard either.
We shut down grazing January 16 this winter due to a
rare (for us) chinook followed by a freeze down.

Due to bigger yields we are going to struggle to get
over the banked before we need to be on the fresh
growth this year. Probably going to try running the
yearlings on banked 50% silage ration for the first
time starting next week. If utilization is less than
normal remember what Don Campbell says: "Once
you have grown grass it is impossible to waste it"
That's probably the most important grass thing I've
learned in Canada.