Cattle Grazing Management Session 19: Water

Stop letting your cattle walk off their weight! In intensive grazing, water delivery is just as critical as your electric fence.

Join Joel Salatin for Cattle Grazing Management Session 19 on water infrastructure. Joel explains why piping water directly is crucial—it's cheap, and it prevents cows from walking off valuable calories by trekking long distances. Learn his preference for high flow and small troughs, which only need to handle 2% of the herd at a time. Salatin details burying water lines, using gravity for pressure, the efficiency of full flow valves, and maintaining consistent, garden hose-compatible hookups across your entire farm. Master your water system to keep your herd unstressed and productive.

Key Takeaways:

- Water delivery is cheap; walking long distances wastes cattle calories.

- Troughs only need to accommodate 2% of the herd at once in small paddocks.

- Aim for high flow and small, portable troughs, replacing low flow and large tanks over time.

- Ensure all valves and hookups are consistent, ideally using garden hose fittings.

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