Grazing log

There's an old shepherd's saying that a cow shouldn't hear the same church bell twice from the same field — the honest case for moving the herd often and resting the ground long. We tell it in full on The Herd; this page is meant to be the receipt for actually keeping that timer.

We already keep the record operationally, strip by strip: when the herd entered, how much pasture it was given, and how long the ground rested before it was grazed again — each move logged with the date and the hand that made it. The grazing log will publish it here, so the rotation can be read paddock by paddock rather than only claimed.

This is also the heart of what we mean by a replicable model — not a finished playbook, but the model in progress. We're testing whether graze-hard, rest-long earns its keep on this ground, in this climate, at one operator's scale, and the dates and numbers will say plainly whether it does. Follow along, with the real figures, as the seasons settle the question.

It opens once enough of a season is on the record to be worth reading. Until then, the methods and the baseline measurements carry the proof — and if you'd like the rotation as it unfolds, our newsletter carries it a few times a season; you can follow along from the home page.