tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012091795932325815.post3364232612519540430..comments2018-11-29T21:54:37.049-06:00Comments on Watch Out For The Bull: Grazing Sorghum-Sudangrass over the Winter Richhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11412944120622315804noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012091795932325815.post-65220202150242646542014-11-09T17:59:44.478-06:002014-11-09T17:59:44.478-06:00There's a lot that anyone with livestock shoul...There's a lot that anyone with livestock should be aware of with both prussic acid and nitrate poisoning and I would have went into more detail about what I know, but there are better places to find that information so I was pretty basic in my description.<br /><br />It took awhile before I was completely comfortable with grain sorghum stubble or sorghum-sudangrass hay, and I suggest that anyone with cattle should do their own homework.<br /><br />I'm not quite to the point of having a true Management-intensive Grazing (or MiG) system just yet (I've been trying to figure out the best way to do it with ponds as my watering sources). But, with a few adjustments, it would be pretty close to the same method that I'm using to divide up this field of sorghum-sudangrass. <br /><br />I'm convinced that MiG would work better for grazing my cattle or at the minimum would make it a little easier to get through the next drought, but I haven't put enough effort into trying it out on a larger scale yet. I haven't gotten around to doing as much as I'd like with MiG because I tend over-think things, drag my feet, and worry about all the little details, but I'm going to try to experiment a little bit more seriously with the idea of MiG this summer (of course, that's also what I said last year and the year before that). <br /><br />What I really need is someone to nag and remind me to follow through on at least half of my great ideas and plans.Richhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11412944120622315804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012091795932325815.post-13053150256288216092014-11-09T16:32:37.162-06:002014-11-09T16:32:37.162-06:00Learned something I have never heard about with th...Learned something I have never heard about with the poisoning. Interesting.<br /><br />We have a few cattle farmers up here that do what is called Intensive Grazing. It sounds like just what you are doing. They divide up fields into smaller sections and let cows graze on it for a few days at a time before moving them to another section. Besides the benefits you listed with evenly distributed nutrients, it also prevents them from over grazing areas or generally destroying them so that they come back and allow more grazing in the future. It was with one of these outfits that I came up with the idea for a rolling fence along a strand of electrical fence to make it easier to move cows from one area to the next.Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214319366049620074noreply@blogger.com