Again, an opportunity to talk a bit more about the most common pasture renovation practices (especially tillage). sdf

I'm still really surprised to see that a 5th year of pasture renovation totally negates the benefit of the other years of continuous cover in a pasture system compared to a corn silage and alfalfa system where tillage also occurs at least two times.

Ok, this is good. I guess I would just add the caveat that comparing the uncommon worst-case grazing scenario to other dairy forage production systems may be a bit misleading.

It would be good to convey a sense of what is the "typical" practice here. It might be worth asking Jason Cavadini directly this question. It's my sense that a complete renovation requiring some kind of tillage every 5 years is quite uncommon. I think that's an important bit of context especially when comparing to other forage production systems where tillage is much more common.

I would also link to this pasture renovation fact sheet somewhere: https://cropsandsoils.extension.wisc.edu/files/2023/05/Fact-Sheet-Renovating-Pastures.pdf

Again, I think it's important to be clear that the tillage is only happening in that single year during re-seeding.

I would remind the reader that this is just tillage associated with the pasture re-seeding in the 5th year

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