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Notes from Ralph Voss on Relationship between Raw Milk on grass, Brix levels and fungus growth/Tall Fescue.
This is real. as far as i can tell raw milk is more valuable dumping on your land then selling to any coop. Herbicide, Insecticide and fertilizer all rolled into one
David:
We are getting brix levels out of this world. I wish our friend Terry were alive to see this. We are routinely getting brix readings of 29 and 30. My routine is to spot and then sample the best-looking grass I can find and also the worst-looking. For the last 10 days the best grass has always tested 29 and 30. On Tuesday I met a young man from our local soil district and we tested grass. ( I’m bring people to the farm because I don’t think people would believe me otherwise.) Below is the entry I made for that day. I think you’ll find it amazing.
11/1 Colby Nilges met me at 2:45 and we sampled fescue, orchard grass and alfalfa in the east part of Ridge. The first samples of fescue tested 22 and 25, orchard grass 21 and alfalfa 15. Then we searched for particularly good-looking and bad-looking fescue in the west half of the field. The worst we could find tested 24 and the two good-looking samples tested 26 and 29. Fescue in the barn lot – which was never sprayed – tested 21, even though it looked very good. All of the good samples had great color and texture. They felt soft and moist. The bad-looking samples had a bad (yellowish) color, looked dry and felt dry. A few of these bad samples contained what David Wetzel described as lesions. David always said raw milk reduced or eliminated these lesions.
All the best. Ralph
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