About Brent Barina Land Management

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Shredding your pasture (also known as pasture mowing or bush hogging) offers several important benefits for pasture health, forage quality, and livestock management: 

Weed Control

• Shredding helps suppress unwanted weeds before they go to seed, reducing their spread.
• Repeated mowing weakens perennial weeds over time.

Improves Forage Quality

• Encourages new, tender growth of grasses, which is more palatable and nutritious for livestock.
• Reduces old, fibrous, or over-mature growth that animals avoid.

Manages Grass Height

• Maintains a uniform sward height, promoting more even grazing and reducing selective grazing behavior.
• Helps prevent grass from becoming too tall and lodging (falling over), which can smother desirable spec

Promotes Plant Health

• Stimulates tillering (new shoot growth) in grasses, thickening the pasture.
• Helps maintain desired forage species by reducing competition from less desirable ones.

Improves Pasture Appearance

• Makes the pasture look cleaner and better managed, which is especially important for properties open to visitors or used for rotational grazing.

Controls Insect and Parasite Habitat

• Reduces tall, moist areas that can harbor parasites like ticks and flies, helping to improve animal health.

Fire Risk Reduction

• In dry climates, shredding removes excess dry plant material, reducing the risk of wildfires

Using a burrow builder to eradicate gophers offers several strategic benefits, especially for agricultural land and pastures. Here’s how this method can be advantageous:

Targeted and Efficient Control

• The burrow builder mimics gopher tunnels and places toxic bait directly into the artificial burrows.
• Gophers find and consume the bait while staying underground, increasing effectiveness and reducing surface exposure.

Minimizes Surface Disruption

• Unlike traps or surface baiting, this method doesn’t disturb the pasture surface significantly.
• Livestock and machinery can operate normally without risk of encountering traps or exposed bait.

Reduces Livestock Hazards

• Gopher mounds and tunnels can cause injuries (like sprains or broken legs) in grazing animals.
• Eliminating gophers helps maintain solid, even ground for safer livestock movement.

Protects Pasture and Crop Roots

• Gophers feed on roots, damaging grasses and forage crops.
• Their removal preserves the root systems, improving plant health and pasture productivity.

Prevents Equipment Damage

• Gopher mounds can dull mower blades and damage baling or seeding equipment.
• Controlling gophers reduces maintenance costs and downtime for farm machinery.

Cost-Effective Over Large Areas

• Burrow builders cover large areas quickly and with minimal labor compared to hand-trapping.
• Suitable for large-acre pastures, hayfields, or row crops.

Environmentally Strategic

• Bait is underground, reducing risk to non-target wildlife and pets when used correctly.
• Less chemical runoff compared to broadcast pesticide applications.

We construct new driveways using aggregates that best fit your needs.  We also renovate old driveways to remove  pot holes and ruts.

If you need hay hauled; we can do it.  We can also use our tractor to load and unload if needed.