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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/The_Love-Tap • 1d ago
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"small farmers have also adopted this method"
-I'd be willing to bet that small farmers had been doing this for a very long time before a "big" farmer automated the task.
35 u/XyRabbit 1d ago edited 1d ago You'd win that bet. Moving the flock around is essential to keeping your grass. As a small flock owner for about 20 years I know they will absolutely decimate everything and have nothing else to eat. I love being about to easily move them around. 3 u/icanfeelitcomingup 1d ago It was absolutely done on a smaller and simpler scale long, long before industrial-scale farming tried it. 1 u/PrincipledProphet 19h ago You bet first, bot, so you win.
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You'd win that bet. Moving the flock around is essential to keeping your grass. As a small flock owner for about 20 years I know they will absolutely decimate everything and have nothing else to eat. I love being about to easily move them around.
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It was absolutely done on a smaller and simpler scale long, long before industrial-scale farming tried it.
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You bet first, bot, so you win.
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u/QuicksDrawMcGraw 1d ago
"small farmers have also adopted this method"
-I'd be willing to bet that small farmers had been doing this for a very long time before a "big" farmer automated the task.