Didn’t you make a comment to Matron’s blog? Do you mind if I ask you how do you fit the EU and high density grazing together on your farm? You can email me if you want to. My farm’s not been inspected since getting into high density grazing and I’m wondering how the pastures will be viewed. They don’t look like a golf course, but rougher with about ten percent or so of older grasses standing (especially under previous temporary fence lines). They’ve got the clean look that inspectors and locals seem to associate with a pasture or a harvested crop of hay only a few times in a year. Those are my two options to designate the fields as, perennial hay crop or perennial pasture. Both have a harvesting requirement. A permanent pasture would be still different and it has a must be kept open requirement instead of the usual harvesting requirement, so in that case I couldn’t let the grasses go to seed at all. I don’t intend to poison the weeds either, and that may also become a problem. Have you had much trouble?

Thank you

I just googled you name and having read your blogs I’m guessing that you are the same Brent Curtis that I went to school with in Sydney. If you are, I’d really like to catch up – it’s been years since you left for the States.

If so, send me an email.

Thanks

Simon