Arming
is getting new technological tools every year to aid the farmers to take care
of their farmlands and farm cattle. Whether a farmer just has crop lands or
whether he has cattle to graze and give him dairy or other such related farm
products, a farmer has to take care. He can rely on a host of such tools to
help him and yet he has to ensure that the technology and science do not damage
the future of the animals or farmlands in the long run.
It
is true that many of the inventions like tractors, solar powered mills, or even
the invention of other such power source has helped the farmers a great deal to
remain self-sufficient. Sustainability is one thing that every farmer would aim
for and this is where to a great extent technology has helped. However, a few
farm and cattle owners have found that due to excessive livestock grazing
farmlands have become barren.
Geoffrey Morell
is one such farm owner of PA Bowne
Farmstead, who has come to do some unique method of managing livestock grazing.
It is easy to manage livestock pasture provided one takes effort or learns
about the process well. There are several livestock management and pasture
management methods, which help the farmer to protect the lands from becoming
deserts or barren.
One
such effective method is rotational grazing that has proven effects and this
also is one of the ways where the cattle get to feed from one paddock or plot
at a time. Such a process is very easy to follow and it shall help the
livestock in a major way along with the farm’s own lifespan. It can continue to
offer rich fodder to the livestock for a longer time without the farmer to look
for other alternatives.
Geoffrey
Morell is also working for the
benefit of the farmland and usually he does the movement of the livestock
between pastures once a week or even once a month. This kind of movement is
what the farm manager or owner does which benefits the lactating cattle well.
This
kind of controlled grazing is beneficial in helping the farmer or the shepherd
to understand the kind of nutrition that his herd needs. He would be able to
understand his country or his region’s climatic conditions and water
availability and provide the cattle with the right kind of fodder they need as
per that.
The
benefits of cautious and controlled grazing are immense not just to the farmer
but to the environment as a whole. There are many lands, which are turning barren in recent times, due to over cultivation or due to
deforestation as it is. Due to deforestation and then turning farmlands or
lands for pasture in to deserts, it becomes difficult to get the animals to eat
healthy food. This is why it is even more of a responsibility of every
individual farmer.
This
kind of farming and managing livestock pasture is something that is the need of
the hour for continued farming.
