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Milkcow365

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Sw Scotland
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Going through photos on my phone, highest ever milk recording in 2013 when I started milking cows had 160 and only cubicles for 110 the first year was hell and I left school the day we started milking at 15 after a month I really wish I'd stuck in at school!! All going good now though thank god
 

vantage

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Livestock Farmer
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Pembs
View attachment 453240 Going through photos on my phone, highest ever milk recording in 2013 when I started milking cows had 160 and only cubicles for 110 the first year was hell and I left school the day we started milking at 15 after a month I really wish I'd stuck in at school!! All going good now though thank god
You're doing welll to keep the same phone for 3+ years on a dairy farm!!
 
You're doing welll to keep the same phone for 3+ years on a dairy farm!!
I've had my phone for 7 years, been run over by a tractor, been through the washing machine, dropped in puddles, still going til yesterday when I dropped it on the yard and the screen gave up working. But still, 7 years and is a lot longer than some last
 

early riser

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Location
Up North
Haha that's the unknown at present.
Didn't get them out till May last year. So aiming to beat that.
April would make me smug I think. March and I may well dance a jig...

Do you know what those fields are plating at?

You won't want to be waiting too long into April else that grass will get away on you and you will be entering at too high covers.

Heavy snow forced us back inside last April and by the time we got back out the overwintered grass had got away on us :banghead:
 
Location
cumbria
Do you know what those fields are plating at?

You won't want to be waiting too long into April else that grass will get away on you and you will be entering at too high covers.

Heavy snow forced us back inside last April and bhe time we got back out the overwintered grass had got away on us :banghead:

Na, just eyeing it. Snow not really a worry, just the wet.
Fields 1 and 2 in the pic will be the driest i've got. Field 3 not so, but it's next to them so what can you do.
Said before on here i've done what i can, up to the weather now.
At least i'm having a go i guess.

Stocking wise it will be 6/ac till May so buffer will be used as well.
 
Stocking wise it will be 6/ac till May so buffer will be used as well.

That's some stocking rate, Is that until afer first cut?

We're the opposite down here, because getting a massive heap of quality silage is less important I have every acre available for grazing until we have a surplus so my sticking rate in early spring i only about 1.2 cows/acre and they're only little
 
Location
cumbria
That's some stocking rate, Is that until afer first cut?

We're the opposite down here, because getting a massive heap of quality silage is less important I have every acre available for grazing until we have a surplus so my sticking rate in early spring i only about 1.2 cows/acre and they're only little

Another grazing field should be ready by then which would take me down to 3/ac. 1st cut is usually in by 3rd week of may and at that time I'm also drying off, so stocking rate becomes less of an issue.

The fields I'm aiming to graze early are usually 1st cut also but the last 2 years I have made a surplus. So I'm trying to take advantage of that and avoid making bales.

Feed them cheaper and less spend spend spend. I do listen:ROFLMAO:.
 

Rossymons

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Location
Cornwall
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West Wales
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Must me something in the air in west wales - we've lost another one up the ramp. Did evrerything we could for her but she didn't want to help herself in the end.

Seen as this is a picture thread though I thought I would put up something much less depressing than a dead cow.

her diet now argely consits Of larger and as many bags of watsits she can get her hands on. apparently my wife gave birth to a 50 year old single male with a combover who still lives with his mother.
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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