Bright Raven
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Jeanne - Simme Valley said:Location - location. What's good for you is not good for me.
I posted a windy post about LOOKING AT MANURE - poof - it is gone. Anyway, someone already said it and I concur. You can tell if your winter grass has enough protein by looking at their manure. You can tell if it has food value, by watching their body condition (don't let heavy winter hair coat fool you!!)
Even if I had enough land to stockpile grass, my cows wouldn't be able to eat it because of our heavy snowfall and the fact that it "packs" so the cattle cannot forage thru it.
It is not just location. I suspect that Fence is using practices that involve planting species of grass that provides good standing forage if grazed in a timely manner. I don't even know where he lives in relationship to CB but he has often posted pictures of outstanding forage that he planted and grazes standing. You cannot argue with his logic that grazing it standing saves the expense of harvesting it, storing it and moving it around.