{"id":5640,"date":"2019-05-13T00:32:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T04:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=5640"},"modified":"2019-05-13T00:33:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T04:33:07","slug":"watching-grass-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/watching-grass-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching grass grow&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Grass-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Grass-1.jpg\" alt=\"Thistlehill Farm Grass\" class=\"wp-image-5643\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Grass-1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Grass-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The definition of \u201cboring\u201d may be watching grass grow but whoever said that was certainly never a cattleman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve finally started strip grazing and here\u2019s an after-action picture of the  first paddock. The untouched grass is behind the electric wire in the  background. This was the result on a half acre with 30 cow\/calf pairs in  the first day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Church has decided to add eight more two year olds to increase the trampling and manure distribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019d\n also like the main herd to clean up some of the weeds. Maybe on the \nnext pass. This paddock will rest for about a month&#8230;depending on grass\n regrowth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s trial and error while we adjust supply and consumption. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The definition of \u201cboring\u201d may be watching grass grow but whoever said that was certainly never a cattleman. We\u2019ve finally started strip grazing and here\u2019s an after-action picture of the first paddock. The untouched grass is behind the electric wire in the background. This was the result on a half acre with 30 cow\/calf pairs in the first day. Church has decided to add eight more two year olds to increase the trampling and manure distribution. We\u2019d also like the main herd to clean up some of the weeds. Maybe on the next pass. This paddock will rest for about a month&#8230;depending on grass regrowth. It\u2019s trial and error while we adjust supply and consumption. David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,33,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david","category-environment","category-pasture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5640"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5645,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640\/revisions\/5645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}