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Migratory Grazing

..Blending the science of grazing with the art of stockmanship

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  IMG breaks current stockmanship, cattle behavior, and grazing paradigms on at least half a dozen levels. With that in mind, my latest presentation addresses how and why we develop paradigms, and why they are so hard to change, before leading up to introducing you to the stockmanship needed for Instinctive Migratory Grazing.  

IMG does not "mimic herds," but creates herd by rebooting the herd instinct allowing ranchers to follow holistic and regenerative grazing plans with less infrastructure and labor while allowing for more flexibility. Once herd instinct is rebooted, it is possible to contour graze without the need for daily moves. How often we adjust their grazing path is dependent upon factors such as riparian areas and roughness of the terrain. In difficult terrain, or in protecting riparian areas, they may need daily moves. However in other areas, cattle may migrate around a pasture of a thousand acres or more with no need to be adjusted.  This also allows fewer water points to build and maintain, as explained in this Working Cows podcast interview by a client in Wyoming.  You can listen to it while perusing the rest of this site.

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Desertification of the Southwestern USA is easy to see. Below is an abandoned mower from when native grass hay was cut on this very spot less than 70 years ago. 

Stocking rates in the region this picture was taken in has gone from 80 acres per cow to over 180 acres per cow in the last 20 years.  It is possible to regenerate these grasslands through planned biological regenerative grazing using IMG. During the IMG schools, there is discussion on how to plan, and keep the plan flexible, as well as designing water plans at a minimal cost and keeping labor costs low.