The Rural Voice, 1985-09, Page 40Rotational or strip grazing was explained at the Nick Den Boer _farm. On
hand to explain procedures, from left: Len Lobb and Tony MacDonald,
Durst Farm Centre; George Jeffrey, Gallagher Power Fencing.
of storing large bales. Den Boer used
to purchase individual commercial
storage bags for the large bales. These
bags are expensive. But he has found
it more economical to buy large
sheets of dark plastic and cover
several bales at once.
Den Boer pastures 114 steers on 80
acres of pasture (90 per cent grass
with 10 per cent clover). The average
daily gain per animal is two pounds.
Last year, with fewer cattle in the
same pasture (which was subdivided
into only five parts), Den Boer had to
pay out $5,000 in supplemental feed
costs. His new management has
eliminated this cost and the cattle
gain as well as before. Den Boer has
supplemented the steers' diet only
with minerals and salt this year.
Within 150 days each animal gained
about 300 pounds. When all the
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Strip pasture
demonstrated
Rotational or strip grazing is still
fairly rare in this part of Ontario.
Few farmers have individual pastures
as small as five acres. Upon seeing
Nick Den Boer's 80 acres of pasture
divided into 13 small fields (mostly
five to six acres), many farmers
would initially shake their heads at
the work involved. But Den Boer
finds this type r.` grazing to be less
labour-intensive than it appears.
More importantly, he finds it to be
considerably more profitable than
conventional methods of pasturing.
Den Boer recently hosted about 15
farmers on a pasture tour arranged by
Durst Farm Centre in Clinton. He ex-
plained that during August he moves
cattle from one pasture to another on
a daily basis. The entire pasture is
divided with permanent electric fenc-
ing. Den Boer opens a gate and the
trained cattle move from one pasture
on to the next. During the spring
when the pasture grows faster, Den
Boer moves the cattle only once every
three days.
This spring, Den Boer was able to
harvest 60 round bales of haylage (ap-
proximately 25 tonnes) from the
pasture. He intends to use this
material as supplemental feed. Many
farmers were interested in his method
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