by Jake Western
If you own a horse property, you continually face pasture-management decisions that affect the productivity, persistence and appearance of your forage crops--and crops they are, whether or not you consider yourself a farmer. How many horses will you turn out in this field? Will they be on continuous turnout or be limited in the amount of time they spend on the acreage? How will you manage the manure dropped in the fields? Does the grass need fertilizing; does the soil need lime? How often should you mow? Should you rotate horses from pasture to pasture to give plants time to recover and regrow after being grazed down? Even if you've never consciously considered these questions, you've made one choice--to do nothing--from among the pasture-care options that have consequences on your finances, your horses' well-being and the "health" of your land.Official Twitter feeds belonging to Barack Obama's campaign, Fox News and Britney Spears were hijacked to send out fake messages on Monday, two days after a password-stealing phishing attack targeted the microblogging service. "A number of high ...
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