{"id":271,"date":"2013-01-07T14:10:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T19:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cvcrops\/?p=271"},"modified":"2013-03-18T14:16:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T18:16:34","slug":"pasture-management-planning-for-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cvcrops\/pasture-management-planning-for-the-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasture Management Planning for the New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/cvcrops\/files\/2013\/03\/Claghorn-and-Hunt-008.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-272\" alt=\"Claghorn and Hunt 008\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/cvcrops\/files\/2013\/03\/Claghorn-and-Hunt-008.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/cvcrops\/files\/2013\/03\/Claghorn-and-Hunt-008.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/cvcrops\/files\/2013\/03\/Claghorn-and-Hunt-008.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/cvcrops\/files\/2013\/03\/Claghorn-and-Hunt-008.jpg?w=1680 1680w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/cvcrops\/files\/2013\/03\/Claghorn-and-Hunt-008.jpg?w=2520 2520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While it may not be a common New Year&#8217;s resolution, stepping up your pasture management might be an important one. After all, improved pasture management can lead to lots of other improvements on the farm, including improved profits. Winter is a great time to think about the grazing season to come and start making plans for what you want to achieve this year. What worked last year, and what didn&#8217;t? If you are thinking to make changes, how can those be accomplished? A good starting point is to write down some simple goals. Some examples might include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bring in more species to increase pasture plant diversity<\/li>\n<li>Increase the length of your grazing season by a month (or more)<\/li>\n<li>Delay the feeding of stored forages until later in the fall<\/li>\n<li>Keep better records of the movement of animals on pasture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The next step is to plan how to meet these goals, and then of course try to implement them once the season begins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; While it may not be a common New Year&#8217;s resolution, stepping up your pasture management might be an important one. After all, improved pasture management can lead to lots of other improvements on the farm, including improved profits. Winter is a great time to think about the grazing season to come and start making &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cvcrops\/pasture-management-planning-for-the-new-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pasture Management Planning for the New Year&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[601703],"tags":[52209],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grazing-herd-management","tag-pasture-management"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cvcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cvcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cvcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cvcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cvcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cvcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cvcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cvcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cvcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cvcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}