Why multicamp layouts?

Abstract

Although it has become standard practice in Southern Africa to recommend grazing systems based on a maximum of five camps, there are indications that the use of multicamp layouts, employing a greater number of camps per herd, may increase the efficiency of animal production from natural veld. The basic advantage of multicamp layouts appears to lie in the inherent flexibility of the management which may be applied within such layouts, allowing the grazier to apply management as dictated by variable rainfall and according to the specific requirements of each camp.

Although multicamp layouts cannot be finally evaluated at this early stage, practical cases in a variety of veld types indicate that this approach is neither too expensive nor too complicated for commercial use.

UITTREKSEL

Hoewel dit standaard praktyk geword het in Snidelike Afrika om slegs wisselweidingsstelsels met minder as ses kampe aan te beveel, is daar aanduidings dat die gebruik van meerkamp ontwerpe die doeltreffend‐heid van veeproduksie vanaf die veld kan verhoog. Die basiese vonrdeel van hierdie ontwerpe is die inherente buigbaarheid van bestuur wat hulle toelaat. Die boer word in ‘n posisie gestel om sy bestuur na gelang van seisoenale wisseling in reenval aan te pas, en om te rus en bewei volgens die spesifieke behoeftes van elke kamp.

Hoewel meerkamp ontwerpe nic op hierdie vroeë stadium finaal evalueer kan word nie, toon praktiese voorbeelde, in ‘n verskeidenheid van veldtipes, dat hulle ekonomies en prakties loegepas kan word in die kommersieële. boerdery.