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#31 Strongest Myth: High Harvest Efficiency Damages Land


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I want to talk about a grazing myth that I hear frequently: That high harvest efficiency or high grazing efficiency will damage your soil.

Where does this idea come from? Under what conditions was it designed? The conclusion was that under continuous grazing, you shouldn't graze more than half of the plant so that its roots would not shorten and disappear from the pasture.

Unfortunately, even though we now have electric fences which makes continuous grazing obsolete,  people take it as a fact.

Today, I am going to share with you how a high harvest efficiency grazing program is the best way to manage your pastures to achieve the highest profitability and the fastest improvement of your soils and pastures.

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Fat Cows, Fat Wallet! PodcastBy Jaime Elizondo