How To Make Your Pasture Resistant To Drought

We are 10 years into managed intensive grazing with astonishing results during a severe drought. Where we have been doing bale grazing for only 3 years it is simply remarkable. It's all about recovery time. Our animals are getting ready to go through their rotation for the second time and I am hopeful that we will not have to use hay at all to get them to butcher weight in late September. 4 go in and 4 stay for another season. It took me two seasons to understand that I really did need to move them every day. It's easy and it works. I'm 68 and I consider the time I spend out in pasture managing animals my gym membership. I wanna die with my boots on, out here, if I have anything to say about it. How much do you love the work you are doing?

[@JL_10acres]

I remember those areas you bale grazed already. They do look great! If you have some time it would be nice to see the winter bale graze set up this year, thanks for the videos I look forward to them.😊

[@twbishop]

@0:20 in addition to regular bales that the cows would eat, you could use the old hay and manure from the chickens on the pasture for an especially rich fertilizer.

[@charliebarger8193]

Isn’t that amazing. Good job. And thank you for spreading the word. Keep up the good work.

[@anathothcommunityfarm8819]

Thank you, I will

[@helenjohnson4593]

Awesome!!

[@anathothcommunityfarm8819]

thanks

[@anathothcommunityfarm8819]

Yup. We're increasing our ability to absorb runoff every year. Much better than putting tiles in to send water away just to make more land available.

[@blueskies6475]

The land looks pretty flat. Why would there be run off??

[@anathothcommunityfarm8819]

Because there is a valley running through the middle of it right into a wetland.

[@maxpalmer514]

Have you ever unrolled the hay bales to spead out the seeds, carbon, animal impact, and manure?