Vaughan,
Did you do an article in the SGF on labor efficiency with pasture
livestock? I've been trying to find an article or something to point people
to for information on the basics behind a low labor operation. There are a
couple discussions going on the pastured pig and pastured poultry list that
really point to the need for these people to understand the principles
behind raising "relatively" large numbers of animals without huge time
commitments.
Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: "leon" <leon@grazinginfo.com>
To: <graze-l@witt.ac.nz>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 4:30 AM
Subject: Re: Owenlea Farm update
>
>
> On 5/3/07 1:49 PM, "F. W. Owen" <fwo@bright.net> wrote:
>
>
>> There was a lot of snow here since Valentines Day. We got 30 inches in
>> 30
>> hours. I plowed that snow off the driveway on both sides so that the
>> driveway was between two 4-5 foot high banks. Then that blew levelfull.
>>
>> I had to abandon the driveway and plowed out across the fields. That was
>> also
>> kind of useless, as the temporary driveway I plowed across the fields was
>> in
>> far better shape than the state highway. We were snowbound, on and off,
>> for
>> about 5 days.
>
> Isn�t it lucky we have global warming!!
>
> New Zealand has just had a very late and cold summer and two winters with
> heavier than usual snow and frosts.
>
> So now the gloom predicters promoted by the media talk about climate
> change.
>
> It has always changed and New Zealand�s 10 million million cattle and 50
> million sheep get the blame - for producing 0.4% of the world�s methane.
>
> Our government and NZ AgResearch are spending millions of dollars of our
> money trying to reduce it.
>
> FW, in 1960 when I bought neighbours land and had to roll up wire I made a
> three foot diameter pto driven winder that pulled the wire in and wound it
> up. The circle was tapered and the back un-bolted to let the roll of wire
> slide off. To feed it out again we put it back on and pulled it out.
>
>
> Best wishes.
>
> Vaughan Jones
> Hamilton
> Waikato
> New Zealand
>
>
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