Recently I have been counting total cattle pounds in 1,000-pound increments for "cow days" calculations.

After I total thousand pounds of animals, then I figure how many pounds per day of dry matter (forage grass) I have out in front of the cattle. When I have time I also estimate how much feed there is back behind the cattle. This figure swings drastically as to moisture, daylight (sunshine) and temperature.

There is a bunch of difference in grazing pasture and regrowth Sept. 1 and what we hit after Sept. 20. At some point in time around frost we do not plan to see any real significant growth of perennial forages again until after Feb. 10. If you do not practice such management thinking maybe it’s easier to understand why a grazing system wiht little or no hay sounds impossible.

In that vein, I ran across an old book the other day and read the edges. One of the things it reminded me was to share the things I've learned. That's what I try to do with this blog.

The book is All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, by Robert Fulghum. Here is my short list, taken from his longer list. These are the ones that struck me as important and/or worthwhile:

Truth is that I need to review this list on a real regular basis.