{"id":5761,"date":"2019-07-26T16:09:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T20:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=5761"},"modified":"2019-07-26T16:09:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T20:09:20","slug":"starting-second-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/starting-second-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting second pass&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n&#8230;after about 45 days rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ThistlehillFarmPasture.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"894\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ThistlehillFarmPasture-1024x894.jpg\" alt=\"Thistlehill Farm Grass\" class=\"wp-image-5764\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ThistlehillFarmPasture-1024x894.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ThistlehillFarmPasture-300x262.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ThistlehillFarmPasture-768x671.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ThistlehillFarmPasture.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Grandson Church says too many weeds though that\u2019s not apparent in the picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\n calculate we have about 54,000 pounds animal weight per acre&#8230;just \nabout a quarter of what we really need to see the results off mob \ngrazing. At this level the cows can still afford to be selective. And \nthere\u2019s only limited trampling affect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The obvious answer is to reduce the size of the paddocks but that brings up the question of water and shade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes,\n we could bring in more cows but it\u2019s almost breeding time and again \nthis year we\u2019ll be testing several young bulls after ai-ing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interesting choices for a young cattleman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;after about 45 days rest. Grandson Church says too many weeds though that\u2019s not apparent in the picture. We calculate we have about 54,000 pounds animal weight per acre&#8230;just about a quarter of what we really need to see the results off mob grazing. At this level the cows can still afford to be selective. And there\u2019s only limited trampling affect. The obvious answer is to reduce the size of the paddocks but that brings up the question of water and shade. Yes, we could bring in more cows but it\u2019s almost breeding time and again this year we\u2019ll be testing several young bulls after ai-ing. Interesting choices for a young cattleman. David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,33,31,10,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david","category-environment","category-mob-grazing","category-pasture","category-soil"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761","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=5761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5765,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761\/revisions\/5765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}