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>If you follow the arrows to the Stockman Grassfarmer link, they will

>send you a free issue of their bi-monthly newspaper -- which has

>techniques for wet-land grazing, dry-land grazing, hot-climate grazing

>and cold-climate grazing.

 

This sounds wonderful. There are many grazing systems and it would be

interesting to see if the Indian farmers could actually get as much or more

benefit from intensive fodder production by these methods than cutting so

many crops a year and bringing to the stalls.

Presumably this publication is only available in America? How can I order

it?

 

Another point is that if you do a grazing system you must maintain your land

properly. This means you must get your bulls on the land and chain harrow in

the large amounts of dung that is left by the animals. It cannot be just

left dumped inthe fields, as I have seen on so many farms in ISKCON. this

amounts to bad agricultural management according to authorities and is not

good for the ground, (as previously mentioned|). Whatever system you do you

must do SOME work. Also the whole question of grazing practice runs on

ENOUGH land, as if you don't have enough land trying to graze does more

damage than the stall system (with daily exercise); like the land on the

Yamauna side of the Goshala it is already dead and the trees (old ones) are

dying/dead too. And this still does not rule out the Very Hot Period in

India, or the rainy season or the flooding season (Mayapur,4 feet deep;

there is no grazing at 4 feet deep) or the infertility problem or the

shortage of land, because of the huge cost of land in Mayapur which nobody

seems to be able to afford. (as previously mentioned)