Bale Grazing, Soil Changing Results

Bale grazing, soil changing results. If your wondering what bale grazing can do for your soil fertility this video is for you. I am really impressed by the new growth, check it out!

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[GTEdgeBlue]

Same here. I like feeding bales where I want to improve the grass the following season.

[Theorimlig]

Very illustrative. The results seem clear.

[davemi]

Looks like a success
With carbon left to feed the soil microbes and worms. And catch the rain and dew.

[floydfarms]

That was some awesome trampling action!

[Digger]

David Walters here in the comments already nailed it, it's common barnyard grass which is a wild millet. Cattle do indeed love it in general. It's also great in duck marshes. The "stuff like this" plant is common Dock.

[RTigers]

I have some of that and the cows eat it first when they go to new pasture. I think bale grazing is more impactful than rotational grazing, although both help.

[grassfeeding]

Barnyard grass. Likely the seed was there but as the nutrient load changed and due to the soil disturbance, it became more competitive. It's called barnyard grass for a reason, nutrients tend to accumulate in barnyards and soil disturbance is common. If you like it, leave it...but it is an annual and will leave the ground bare in the winter. Maybe think about spreading some turf type cool-season grass seed that can take a beating? Maybe it could keep things from turning to mud in the winter if you need the corral, but with all of the disturbance it likely won't out compete the barnyard grass.

[troypuckett]

Could be that the seed was in the hay. But my guess: the seed was already in your soil. You gave it the right fertility and conditions to grow through animal impact (hoof action, manure, urine, hay). The forage that grew there is HIGHER energy and a more desirable forage. DON’T TRY TO GET RID OF IT.

Start looking for this: in the past years where you have done the following: placed water tubs, mineral feeder, where you open a polybraid gate for them to come through or where they go through a gate, around shade trees - watch them now when they enter a paddock and I will bet that they graze those areas first and they will graze them to the ground while leaving much of the rest of the paddock untouched or lightly grazed.

I used to wonder why I was getting clover at the ends of fields or why they would eat the plants at the ends of fields so severely. I realized that’s where I would roll back a polybraid and they would come through to the new paddock. Or it was were a water tub was set up. When they move to the next paddock you are getting a million pounds + of stock density, if only for 10-15 seconds. It wakes up soil microbes and feeds plants. You are doing so many things right!

[joeyoliver]

I know nothing about cattle but I do enjoy reading about raising them. Will/are you going to incorporate rotational grazing? And if I may ask another question, if you left the cows in that area another half day wouldn't they have eaten the weeds they left behind therefore limiting the risk of the particular week going to seed and possibly spreading? Again, I dont know anything about cattle, I raise bees, lavender and apple trees, but cattle and new feeding techniques is interesting to me. Thanks very much

[johnbeckman]

Great stuff Jason!
"Impacted" area = hoofs & dung. 😃

[alexpaulson]

Looks great for sure! At first I just throught it was Rye grass, but later on I realized that wasn't the case at all so I really couldn't say myself.
So cows are kind of like children.. "Oh, now I know why you wanted me to come over Why didn't you tell me earlier?" haha.
The farm keeps looking better and better, nice work! (even if the landowner is contrary sometimes)

[jennifersinclair]

Proof that mob grazing works! Well done! Looks fantastic! Imagine if you had a few sheep & goats with the cows. All eating different plant species, to completely clearly the land & create even more indigenous plant diversity, while decimating the dangerous parasites...

[randymaylowski]

@Grazing Acres Farm may I ask you a question or two?? Am just curious when you did your bale grazin thing, did you fede them on the same area until the mud gets really slappy?? Or did you wait until the mud is somewhat chunky where you can still make out there feed tracks. Cuz I tried to do somethin like that last summer when I had to started feedin but only maybe about half of the grass and clovers speed came up but rest didn't grow. Thanks..

[davidwalters]

I'd say it was barnyard millet, a species of "Rough Barnyardgrass". Look up "barnyard millet" on google.

[floydfarms]

Looks like Johnson grass. As long as you don't graze it short in a drought no issues with nitrates or prussic acid, good forage.

[StanOwden]

Have you considered trying standing corn grazing during winter instead of bale grazing?

[lonniehairgrove]

Purpletop tridens we have it on our ranch in east Texas or Johnson grass but watching on my phone looks like purpletop tridens.

[TheKajunkat]

They are already full haha. They don't even want the new stuff. Spoiled for choice they are!

[SasquatchBioacoustic]

Pressure, followed by a good long rest.

[giuseppeaudino]

Hi mate I don’t know the name of that grass you got on your land but if’s you cow grassing is good grass i got on my land in southern Italy end my brother goat and sheep loved wen is small I did like the video 👍