How to Maintain a Pasture

Maintaining a pasture involves cutting the grass regularly, breaking up the manure and using animal-safe products to keep the grounds lush and parasite-free. Keep up a pasture where horses can thrive with important information from a farm manager in this free video on caring for horses.

Pasture maintenance is very important not only so that your land looks good but also so that your horses have a source of grass to eat. Throughout the year we use a drag and we go out to the pasture and break up the piles of manure and this also helps break up the ant hills. It's important to break up the piles of manure because as it rains there's concentrated mounts of salt rinse off the manure and they sit on your grass in certain areas and this might actually kill your grass instead of helping it grow. It is also helpful to break the manure up to have it disintegrate faster and turn into fertilizer. The second step is to cut the grass in the pastures. Grass shacking is very important because it keeps the taller grasses from shadowing the lower ground covering grass. It is also an option to spread weed killer or fertilizer in your pasture and it is important to speak with a company like Southern States or a local chemical store on what is safe for your horses. Depending on what kind of grass you have in your location in the United States, it maybe necessary to seed your pasture. Check with your local extension office to see what is the best in your area.