{"id":45,"date":"2013-09-03T15:15:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T19:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pasture-vtpasture\/?p=45"},"modified":"2013-09-03T15:15:36","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T19:15:36","slug":"planned-grazing-featured-on-npr-tested-in-vermont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pasture-vtpasture\/2013\/09\/03\/planned-grazing-featured-on-npr-tested-in-vermont\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Grazing Featured on NPR, Tested in Vermont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several weeks ago, NPR featured a piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thesalt\/2013\/08\/05\/209018347\/ecologists-turn-to-planned-grazing-to-revive-grassland-soil\" target=\"_blank\">using planned grazing to build soil<\/a>.\u00a0 While the piece focused on a ranch in Colorado, the concept is one that farmers in Vermont have also been working with for over a decade.\u00a0 In fac<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pasture-vtpasture\/files\/2013\/09\/0299.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54 alignright\" alt=\"0299\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pasture-vtpasture\/files\/2013\/09\/0299-300x199.jpg\" width=\"279\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>t, the Pasture Program is part of a Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) grant to teach technical assistance providers more about the techniques in order to help farmers achieve their goals, including the goal of building soil.<\/p>\n<p>While Allan Savory&#8217;s techniques of building soil through quick rotations, high density animal impact, putting animals in desertified areas, and grazing riparian zones may be subjects of controversy, the concept of planning a grazing season should not be.\u00a0 Planning ahead to decide which pastures to use and rest, when to hay, how many days plants have had to recover their leaf matter before being rebitten&#8230;these are business decisions.\u00a0 Businesses are stronger when they plan for good times and bad.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t think this is important?\u00a0 In this year of complicated weather, many farmers have been extremely challenged to produce dry hay or even get on to fields in order to cut and wrap baleage.\u00a0 One farmer who uses the planned grazing chart knew at what point (roughly) during ast year&#8217;s drought he&#8217;d need to buy hay if the rain didn&#8217;t come.\u00a0 He was able to buy hay early at a GREAT price, because the other farmers around him hadn&#8217;t approached the seller yet.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to learn more about our <a title=\"Holistic Planned Grazing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/~pasture\/?Page=holisticgrazing.html\" target=\"_blank\">planned grazing project <\/a>or a<a title=\"2013 Planning Chart\" href=\"http:\/\/cnyrcd.org\/storage\/2013_grazing_dated_20_paddock_12_month_chart.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> grazing chart<\/a> to get you started, we&#8217;ve got both.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several weeks ago, NPR featured a piece on using planned grazing to build soil.\u00a0 While the piece focused on a ranch in Colorado, the concept is one that farmers in Vermont have also been working with for over a decade.\u00a0 In fact, the Pasture Program is part of a Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pasture-vtpasture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pasture-vtpasture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pasture-vtpasture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pasture-vtpasture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pasture-vtpasture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pasture-vtpasture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pasture-vtpasture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pasture-vtpasture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pasture-vtpasture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pasture-vtpasture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}