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We still offer shade most of the time via a lane for access. The Mashona influenced cattle are very heat adapted but we still have a good number of Angus cattle that have to have access to shade. We are getting rid of them and replacing them as quickly as we can economically. We don’t have any Mashona influenced cattle for sale at this time.

@@timtaylor6330 Steers around 1000-1100, heifers 800-900.

We will move twice per day at double the normal area. If it’s extremely wet we will reduce stock density even further and do once daily or maybe every two days. We will do whatever we need to to minimize pugging.

@@runningtfarmsnc been raining here the past 2 weeks almost every day I’m ready for sun and dry weather again. Nice being able to put them on stockpile while it’s wet. I never had this much grass with a decent stocking rate tip grazing the past couple years especially coming out of a drought

We have never had to supplement any protein to our cattle. If supplemental protein is needed I would use the highest protein possible at the cheapest price that meets your production practices. Soybean meal or cotton seed meal would be examples. For us we would use Very high quality organic Alfalfa as we don’t use any grains and want no chemicals on our farm. We hope to never have to supplement because of our fescue and proper timing of our calving season to lower cows nutrient requirements through winter. But should we find we would need to it would be very high quality organic alfalfa hay.

@runningtfarmsnc Makes sense. Thanks the time.

@@bonsukan maybe around 1/3 of breeding age cattle. All offspring from this last spring calving and forward will be either 1/2 to 1/4 Mashona. We are working as fast as we can to get the whole herd transitioned to a 1/2 Mashona composite.

@@haydenlejeune3601 We are retaining all heifers and giving them a chance to get bred, along with some custom grazing.

Growth slows or stops depending on severity of drought like all forages

@@1WayWeb-q3z We haven’t found any in our pastures yet but do see some growing on the edges of the roadside so we’re hopeful we’ll see some soon.

Yep! It will fix whatever the soil needs then drop back in the ratio of the sward once the soil improves

I find it very very pretty. Bugs galore. I'm looking forward to grazing it this fall and winter.

So much life in a resting field. Bugs and birds and other animals abound.

Beautiful results!

We manage just under 1000 acres with 500 of that in grass. We are currently severely under stocked at around 200 head total. We should be running around 500 head and are working to get our numbers up as quickly as possible.

@@timshirk6261 No sir I haven’t done any testing.

@@runningtfarmsnc the reason I ask is because ours are very high from to much manure applied in past years. This makes for grass and all plants to grow better but it is more potassium than cows should have and so there manure is very high in it as there body expels it quickly. This means that after a graze like you do and all the manure pats the next growth will be higher yet in potassium. I thought maybe if your levels are low perhaps that is not as big of a deal. Will they evenly graze following a graze from a few months ago with heavy manure or do they still graze around manure pats ?

@@timshirk6261 Fairly evenly but we always have a little refusal around old manure pats. They will eat the top 2/3 usually but leave the bottom where the pat was. We have a pretty good dung beetle population but we need more to bury the manure quicker post grazing. But we’ll get there Rome wasn’t built in a day. I would suspect that this farm could have elevated potassium levels maybe the previous leaseor did apply chicken litter fairly frequently but also made hay on this particular part of the farm for the last several years he had it. It’s pretty productive so I would imagine nutrient levels are still pretty good. We don’t apply any fertilizers of any kind so if something is out of balance we will let management, nature and time work that out.

@@runningtfarmsnc thanks and makes sense. The first growth of year does not have this problem from last years manure and this first growth is also the one that should be non selectively grazed all the way down within a day so there is no stems left behind. However following that there will be fresh manure pats and the following graze if they only graze tops that is ok as what is left behind is leafy. I think there is a disconnect in that hot maybe dry summer grazes don’t need the same heavy graze and the early spring simply due to stems versus leafs and cooler wetter weather vs hot dry normally. That being said still important to graze non selectively so all plants get same impact, just not as low in hot dry summer

@@zhostetler3 With favorable weather it’s possible.

@@runningtfarmsnc still trying to figure out what that cow days/acre tells you? Do you shoot for 365 or more to get through the year with no hay feeding or what is your target? Maybe I’m overthinking it..

@@zhostetler3 A couple of things. 1 it gives you an idea of production per acre so you can compare year over year to see if you are improving your land base. Of course there will be variations between years due to weather conditions but it is one of the single best metrics of land improvement. 2 We know that most winters we can only average around 200 cow days per acre harvested on our stockpiled areas due to our wet reasonably mild winters so we know how to adjust our stocking rate once the growing season is over to make sure we have enough stockpile for our cattle. We have a goal to be able to graze 1 animal unit per acre with no winter feeding in order to do that we need to average 365 cow days per acre across every acre of the farm for an entire year. We are getting closer to our goal.

@@runningtfarmsnc ok so the green season grass should be 500 or more to make up for the stockpile that’s around 200 to get an average of 365? That’s an awesome goal hope to see you do it! Would that be around 1.5 acre/cow calf pair?

@@warrenmaker798 Yes but your guys forages and management should be used to a semi arid or seasonal rainfall environment. We usually get 3.5-4 inches of rain every month of the year it’s what our forages have evolved for. So yes 30 days of no rain and very hot windy days put us in severe drought conditions. The grain farmers in our state experienced 90% crop failure on their corn crops. Very unusual for us.

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@@runningtfarmsnc thank you

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Stockpile had gotten super ugly here too. I'm loving watching the green stuff come up thru. Perfect poo piles regardless of what they've grazed thus far. Much to my surprise.

@@bradharris2503 are you on your stockpile right now?

@@tickcreekranch I am not. Won't be on it til this Fall/Winter. Being truthful, I'm always grazing stockpile. But the full-season stockpile is gonna go full season.

@tickcreekranch it's super ugly though. Hoping cool seasons come up thru. Horsenettle has dominated the full-season ground this summer when the red clover laid down a second time. Hoping it's serving a function. Everything is thriving back there though. Soils is super soft where it's usually hard.

@@bradharris2503 I’m in some really nice cool seasons right now and they’re vegetative. Wild

@@hubbsfarmvt yes sir I just finished setting up a 3 day grazing cell and we will move the cows into it first thing in the morning for the third grazing this year.

@@zhostetler3 We will get 4 most likely this year possibly 5 if we have perfect weather and good moisture. Usually between 3-6 very dependent on moisture of course.

@@runningtfarmsnc how many days rest did that paddock have?