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Rotational grazing (Voisin grazing)

Published: December 5, 2014

We are having the first year of Voising grazing each 30 days, 10 paddocks per batch of approximately 2 hectares with electric fences and rotation each three days. The grass is angleton. The load is approximately 80 cows and 120 calves of 200-300kg In the rainy season (from may to mid November) we were running short of food supplies the first months due to an unexpected drought. Then it started raining regularly and cows are not eating the grass which is becoming a kind of mattress of vegetative material. Now it has stopped raining till next may. What will cows eat? We have to reduce the load and make some bales, besides we buy concentrated feed. We know we are doing something wrong but we don´t understand what it is. Do we have to raise the load in order to make them eat the whole grass? And another question, with Voisin, do we have to expect less growth per animal, but more kilos per hectares and per year?

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