- Location
- Montgomeryshire
And of course it gives them a great place to congregate, and get covered in mud.
Traditional mixed Farming
- Thread starter Kevtherev
- Start date
And of course it gives them a great place to congregate, and get covered in mud.
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
I have never fed silage to sheep on turnips, its not necessary, unless it snows heavy.
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
And of course it gives them a great place to congregate, and get covered in mud.
And cause more damage to the ground . . .
Lokman Alam
New Member
- Location
- Dhaka, Bangladesh
I also think that mixed farming should be practiced more and more. If mixed farming is done, the farm productivity will be increased. Besides this, the every bi-products can be used efficiently.
Thank you for starting the discussion about mixed farming.
Thank you for starting the discussion about mixed farming.
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Last night as I was settling down to watch some tosh on the telly, I got that phone call from the police that mixed farmers dread: 'Are those your cattle on the road, sir?' They were ours, and they were having a bit of a run round...next door neighbours new laid lawn looks like a re-enactment of the battle of the Somme this morning, that kind of thing. Luckily, by the time I got there they had gone back to the yard and were busy making holes in the big bale silage stack and were relatively easily contained until morning.
I appreciate why arable farmers don't want the hassle of livestock, especially if you are running as a one-man-band. There is no time you can completely relax. But they add so much to a farm fertility-wise and income-wise too. There are all sorts of interesting new ways of keeping animals which are not labour intensive, or input (or capital) intensive come to that, and which will boost soil health; thus enabling inputs to be cut on the arable acres.
However, unless you've got a brain the size of Rutland, it is hard to be an expert in everything. It turns out that you don't need to be...with healthy soil comes healthy stock and healthy plants, so you don't have to learn the scientific names of all those sprays and medicines because you don't need most of them. OK, I'm exaggerating a little bit, but with all the specialisation that has gone on in farming, we have lost sight of the simple joys of imitating nature with all her interactions between species. Just focusing on one species in a monoculture is asking for trouble, long-term.
I appreciate why arable farmers don't want the hassle of livestock, especially if you are running as a one-man-band. There is no time you can completely relax. But they add so much to a farm fertility-wise and income-wise too. There are all sorts of interesting new ways of keeping animals which are not labour intensive, or input (or capital) intensive come to that, and which will boost soil health; thus enabling inputs to be cut on the arable acres.
However, unless you've got a brain the size of Rutland, it is hard to be an expert in everything. It turns out that you don't need to be...with healthy soil comes healthy stock and healthy plants, so you don't have to learn the scientific names of all those sprays and medicines because you don't need most of them. OK, I'm exaggerating a little bit, but with all the specialisation that has gone on in farming, we have lost sight of the simple joys of imitating nature with all her interactions between species. Just focusing on one species in a monoculture is asking for trouble, long-term.
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Well @Kiwi Pete what’s tonight’s subject?
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Regenerative Agriculture without too much reliance in bought in fert and sprays is the way forward I think but no doubt I’ll get shot down for it.
All the miles food and food products are trucked around the country is another issue as well.
In the uk we are very poor to embrace change of systems.
All the miles food and food products are trucked around the country is another issue as well.
In the uk we are very poor to embrace change of systems.
- Location
- pembrokeshire
when i was a kid we were told about the Norfolk four course rotation wheat turnips barley clover
- Location
- pembrokeshire
when did you last buy weaned calves i think you might expect to pay about £800 a head for any thing of use
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
icanshootwell
Member
- Location
- Ross-on-wye
That,s pretty much my rotation, i grow oats as well for my own use.
Selectamatic
Member
- Location
- North Wales
I put this on another thread, but that is exactly what it talks about.
Dead interesting, if your into that type of thing, and a bit of nostalgia...
Dead interesting, if your into that type of thing, and a bit of nostalgia...
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Back to basics
Selectamatic
Member
- Location
- North Wales
Back to basics
Bloody right,
My little enterprise tries to copy this, as well as it can, within reason...
Very little bagged fert, down the spout at corn drilling time.
Some spray, but again, just basics.
Most of my fert, hopefully comes out of a animal, or the back of a muck spreader.
One day... my own pigs, and cattle...?
- Location
- pembrokeshire
i was brought up on an old fashioned cheshire farm we cut corn with a reaper binder grew roots and put them in a clamp milked short horns and had shire horses i remember hay on tripods and cocks most of the stuff on that film and its all nice and nostalgic but i will tell you something for nothing it was bloody hard work, but it was sustainable agriculture the big problem is no one wants the workBack to basics
as a foot note we used to have the mobile mill to mill and mix the cattle feed until the operator said he would not bag the stuff off this same operator used to go to the gym three times a week to work out and body build