Bending the Rules of Rotational Grazing

This podcast was funded in part by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada through the BC Climate Agri-Solutions Fund delivered by the Investment Agriculture Foundation of BC.

This episode: the next chapter in our miniseries on rotational grazing in collaboration with BC’s Small Scale Meat Producers Association. In the first two episodes, we learned about the fundamental principles of rotational grazing from forage specialist Woody Lane. Woody described the ideal approach to management intensive rotational grazing if we want to get the most out of this system.

But! It’s called ‘management intensive grazing’ for a reason. Conducting our grazing this way is labour intensive, which can make it difficult, when things get busy, to avoid violating the fundamental principles that Woody described.

My two guests in this episode are here to tell you that that’s okay, sometimes at least, to break the rules, and to give examples of how they break the rules on their own farms.

My guests this episode:

Joseph Moilliet of Aveley Ranch in Vavenby, who we'll hear a lot more from in the next episode.

Steve Meggait of Fresh Valley Farms in Spallumcheen, who also featured in episodes 44 & 45 of this podcast.

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Check out the Small Scale Meat Producers Youtube Page!

You'll find lots of videos about fencing and rotational grazing at the SSMPA Youtube page.