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The cattle ranch is handle
with an intensive program, this means heavy loads of animal on
small area of pasture. We have in 30 acres about 200 head of
cattle with field rotation system. It is very effective and
we have been given a lot of advise from the River Falls University
of Wisconsin (I have to confirm this university). They have
come with a program from farmer to farmer and have given us ideas
on how to manage this.
So far we have electric fencing
with solar energy, self sufficient pasture, we don't do any works
anymore on them, part of the cattle free of parasites (due to
the intensity of the program), shade pasture. The interesting
part of this system is that it should include a great percentage
of shade on all the pasture. So far, we have sections with a
40% of shade and it is working great.
We irrigate most of the area with water used on the coffee facility
and also water frm the cleaning of the pigs and stable.
This way of working the cattle
has provided us with a lot of new experience, we would like to
learn much more as we know that there are more things we can
do, such as chicken raising on the pasture, to use their manure
on the field.
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