Cattle gazing across the landscape moved and controlled with portable electric fence are the main harvesting and landscape control system in the type of permaculture I want to practice on the new farm. Cattle moved daily in a high density management intensive grazing system will harvest the forage and reset the grasses and other forage at a higher productive level will be the main driving force of our farm.
Cattle and other ruminants like sheep have the ability to turn soil building grasses, legumes and forbs to both fertility and to high density human nutrition (beef, mutton, lamb and dairy products ) while also trampling into a soil covering mulch excess forage fertilizing the soil with both the cattle dung and the mulching trampled forages.
The other reason I want to have cattle as a centerpiece of the farm is I like to work with them, few animals in my opinion are as cute as a young heifer calf.
(Jersey calf born 7 Sept 2017)
By rotating the cattle daily into fresh grass they will be getting the best cattle feed and building a beautiful productive landscape.
