Custom Grazing with Veerman Acres
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Custom grazing is an excellent tool that can be used to regenerate your land and create soil that helps your operation flourish. We will bring animals to your desired location, set up our solar-powered portable electric fences and let the herd do what they do best!
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We use solar-powered portable electric fences to contain our grazing herd while they are working. We monitor their health daily when they are on a job site. It takes about 10 goats to clear an acre of brush. The number of animals we will use depends on your specific needs and location.
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Goats have a digestive system that will break down seed, and once consumed and expelled will leave seeds that will not germinate.
Some examples of noxious weeds in Alberta that goats can consume are Leafy spurge, Hawkweed, Knapweed, Thistle, Chamomile, Sow thistle, Oxide Daisy, Brome, Common Mullein, Toad Flax, and Dandelions.
Targeted grazing uses goats to control unwanted vegetation in a natural sustainable environmentally friendly manner.
Vegetation management focuses on improving landscape, removing undesirable or invasive weeds. Goat targeted grazing has been shown to reduce wildfire risk, remove noxious/invasive weeds and improve ecosystems by eliminating vegetation that is competitive with natural plant growth.
Goats provide regenerative practice to landscapes, creating a healthy protein, rich in nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium as well as they deposit nutrients into the ground feeding soil biology. Herbicides damage soil life, while goats provide sustenance.
Goats are an effective resource to help control noxious weeds in Alberta. An area takes a minimum of three years to effectively notice a difference in perennial herbaceous weeds. Affected areas may take longer, it's up to the owner to modify their grazing strategy when problems occur. The main role of goats in targeted grazing are:
Problem prevention
Converting weeds to feeds
Ecosystem restoration
Noxious weed control
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Send us an email to discuss our current rates for custom grazing.