----- Original Message -----
From: "Misty Ridge Farm" <mrfarm@mwt.net>
To: <graze-l@witt.ac.nz>
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 12:57 PM
Subject: RE: [Graze-l] When to start?
> Jim Cropper wrote:
> > Where is grazing not permit? Why?
>
> I think I have talked about this before, but as the farms get larger, they
> reach a point that it is no longer possible to graze due to practical
> limitations. From what others have said in past years, such as Micheal
> Murphy, well known grazing dairyman from Ireland, is that 400 cows or so
> seems to be around that limit. The 1,000 cow farms, of which we have now
> have one here in Vernon County, are restricted on what they can do in
order
I have to disagree, we currently graze 250 jerseys and if we had enough
pasture and was located around the barn we could easily graze 1000 or 1500.
split up in to 4-5 strings. the whole key is to have your barn in the
middle of the pasture, so to limit the distance the cows walk.
Mike Holmgren
Holmgren Dairy
Myrtle Point OR
