Why multicamp layouts?

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.