04/06/2026
To improve landscape health alongside farming, we have been pushing the cattle on less palatable paddocks. As a thank you, and to balance animal health, they got a treat of coconut meal, and molasses with seaweed sprayed on the paddock for a nutrition boost π€π
More pasture being utilised by livestock means more carbon sequestration and better soil health and pasture regrowth π±
The goal of supplementing (in addition to the cattleβs regular free-choice mineral trailer), is eliminating poorer nutrition and animal stress with the long-term goal of pasture improvement, which the cattle then also benefit from. It makes up a very small portion of their overall diet but it affords us flexibility in responsibly farming to improve pasture management and we are seeing the positive impacts.
This is one of the extra steps we take to balance animal and landscape health and farm ethically. It takes more attention, planning, and inputs, but we feel everyone wins in the long run ππΎπͺ±πΏππ