Maintaining your pastures

What can you do in the fall months to preserve and utilize pasture? Even under cool soil temperatures, cool season grasses can produce shoots and new sprouts from the mother plants. Undergrazing can be a problem since horses prefer lush new growth to stemmy, older plants. They also avoid their own manure. Spot grazing occurs even when there is plenty of forage, so you get tall stems and weeds alongside low, lush grass growth. Overgrazed spots are where the weeds encroach after the grass is stressed and where summer weeds die out to leave mud when it rains.