To my delight, the weather in north Missouri has been extraordinarily fine, which has provided a great start to my new grazing plan. As you may know, i DO NOT LIKE cold weather, and in all rights, it should be upon us. However, Yah blessed and allowed me a nice beginning.

When the weather is fine, i have all sorts of things at my farm which i can accomplish in the afternoon (still cold in the mornings). So a late start allows only 2-3 moves per day, but it’s a beginning. In between the moves, i’ve burned small brush piles (it’s still a bit too dry for me to feel comfortable starting conflagrations), cut down a lot of small to mid size trees. Even trees, when growing in the wrong place, are weeds. Plus many are scraggly and worthless or they’ve grown too close together, so none will amount to anything. Or, they are on the bank of a deep ditch, so i know as they grow, they will facilitate a great deal of bank erosion and eventually fall down which is dangerous.

Anyway – back to how did i get on with total grazing. The short answer is excellent. I’m excited to see cows with excellent gut fill, calves growing, and more more even nutrient distribution across the grazed portion of the paddock.