Product Questions (double click a question to get the answer)

• What is the Grazier System?

  • A "highly portable" fence system designed for the purpose of making daily "Intensive Rotational Grazing" superbly easy.
    
    "Highly Portable," as defined by us, means shallow penetration (less than five inches), step-in installation, with superior strength and stability. As far as we have been able to determine, the Grazier System is the only fully self-contained system in the world that meets this criteria, and the only system designed specifically for the purpose stated above.
    
    As a byproduct of its design, the Grazier System doubles as the finest portable system available in America for traveling with horses, and also makes delightful portable round pens and arenas.
• What makes the Grazier System unique or any different from other electric fence systems?
  • Its shallow penetration design is being patented. Its "Pull-and-Hook" simplicity and "fully self-contained" design are unequalled by any other fencing system that we know of.
• The Grazier System is an electric fence. Do I need to buy additional parts, like chargers and insulators?
  • No. Everything a Grazier System kit needs for its intended purpose is inherent in the design, or included in the box.
• Can a solar or a 110-volt fence charger be used on the Grazier System?
  • Yes. The Grazier System uses electric fence line materials that are designed to be used with any electric fence charger on the market. Very often the System is used next to an existing electric fence powered by a 110-volt system, and the electricity is simply jumped over to the Grazier System...with jumpers which are included in the kits, by the way.
• How easy is putting up a Grazier System fence? Can I do it myself?
  • We haven't found the person who can't, yet. Most customers report a ten to thirty-minute experience for their first effort after opening the box...and Bob Ernst did so with one arm in a cast (listen to his testimonial). Our secretary's 5-year-old son took it down, moved it over and set it back up by himself, after having seen it done only once.
• We have really hard and sometimes rocky ground. Will the Grazier System work for me?
  • It was originally conceived because of hard, drought-baked clay. It was designed to take a blow from a mallet to drive it into hard ground. We haven't found earth yet that we can't easily install it on.
    
    Additionally, accessories are available for use when the ground conditions are weak. It easily sets up on anything from pure sand dunes to rocky mountain sides, or even muddy drylots. The System installs onto solid rock using only a portable electric hand drill with a concrete or carbide tipped bit, and when so installed will accept a high-tensile steel wire fence to 300 pounds tension.
• Is there any kind of surface or soil you can't use it on?
  • Actually, yes, there is one area we have had some difficulty with. The "sugar sands" of Florida are the only area giving us trouble, but we're working on it.
• Are there any applications for which you don't recommend the Grazier System?
  • It works well with many kinds of livestock, in many applications, but certain savvy is required at times. For instance, it should not be used to contain cattle in tight quarters. The poor cow getting pushed into the electric fence is not the one doing the pushing...and they all get shocked at once through each other. But grazing cattle in fields or cornstalks is easily and well done with the Grazier. Common sense has to prevail.
• How big an area can you handle with the Grazier System? Is it just for little paddocks?
  • There really is no limit, except practicality. For example, the Corridor Kit with standard reels, normally used to create long corridors for moving herds out to the grazing spot, can be set up instead to contain a 2-acre rectangle. Or we have used a few regular 2-strand Electrobraid units in series with each other to enclose about 15 acres for several weeks at a time.
    
    For larger areas, such as grazing cattle on a quarter section of milo or corn stalks, one oversized reel with a 3-to-1 geared return ratio can hold up to 1/2 mile of single-strand polywire.
• I only have a couple acres, so I don't think I need a rotational grazing fence. Why would I?
  • We teach rotational grazing, and how many systems work together to create healthy conditions for both the horse and the grass. Please believe this: The smaller a grass area on which horses are being kept, the more critical it is to understand proper daily rotation, and the more important such a fence system becomes. The proper use of such a System cuts the amount of land required by two thirds, and still maintains better grass than is possible without the System.
    
    We are in the process of creating audio and video tapes on proper pasturing, and I am also writing a book on these topics. Please write to us if you have an interest, and we'll let you know when we have something ready.
• What is your customer satisfaction experience?
  • MAMTC-Wichita (www.mamtc-wichita.com) did an independent customer satisfaction survey. We gave them our entire list without influencing whom they chose to call. They reported their very first ever 100% result, including all questions, which included such things as, "Do you feel you got a good value for the money," and, "Would you buy another one," and, "Would you recommend the Grazier System to others."

COMPANY QUESTIONS (double click a question to get the answer)

• Why two names: Canter, LC, and The Grazier System? And where did "Canter" come from?
  • Canter, L.C., is the name of our business. "The Grazier System" is one of our products.
    
    We chose the name "Grazier System" for selling to the horse and agricultural industries, and because it was first designed as a rotational-grazing fence. "Canter" means nothing, really. We chose it because we wanted a name that attracted the eye of a horse owner (a gait of a horse), but which meant nothing to the football coach or the golf pro wanting to use it to keep people off the grass. We also market the system under the name "The Barrier System" for people-control applications, in slightly different configurations.
• Who is behind the Grazier System?
  • Two Kansas farmers: Bryan Pulliam, inventor, and Ken King, Bryan's grazing mentor and now partner. No big company, just two guys and a great idea. Bryan and his wife Annette specializes in and teaches Intensive Rotational Grazing for horses, and also own and operate a large mailing firm. Ken has an impressive knowledge and background in grass based dairy production, and he and his wife Judy operate a family farm producing healthy all-natural dairy products, and a small manufacturing company that produces the Grazier System and other products.
• Databases can be abused. What is your privacy policy?
  • The Grazier inventor Bryan Pulliam's "other company" is a mailing firm--a professional private mailer--and an expert protector of others' privacy. Bryan's "Grazier" company Canter, LC, likewise does not sell, lend, lease or rent or reveal any of its lists or Referral Program information. Canter, LC, also will not itself process for a fee or otherwise use any such information for the benefit of others.