Getting fairly late isnt it? Must be yellow
2019 Silage Season
- Thread starter Bald Rick
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That’s a fair chunk to cut . How many cows are you planning to feed?
No luck on the tyre walls I’m afraid.
Some field that
Headless chicken
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- Location
- West Wales
It needs the mill that for sure. Winter wheat mostly some peas and some spring barely.
Personally I’d of taken it a lot earlier but the nutritionist held me back. I think he was right to do so.
210-250 cows is the plan. It was never really the plan to have that much wholecrop it’s just how the fields came as mostly that’s all new tenancy. There’s about 30 acres of peas and 20 acres was just a cover crop of barely that’s gone insane and looks better than any crop I’ve sown at full rate
buffalo_soldier
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- Location
- cumbria
Should have mine off next week. Does look promising stood up anyway.
Speedstar
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- Location
- Scottish Borders
a few from the second cuts so far
Ducati899
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- Location
- north dorset
Be late down south for it that’s for sure,most wholecrop in our area would have been done and dusted week/10 days ago,time will tell if I’ve made the right choice with deciding to stick the combine in mine this year
Dry wheat and oats being cut everywhere locally. Combines wont stop till its done now.
- Location
- Northern Ireland
Pretty green yet. No big hurry on that til the week after, if it was mine.
buffalo_soldier
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- Location
- cumbria
End of next week would probably be the ideal.
You should well know yourself though, a crop ready and having a weather window. In our climate you gotta go for it
Ducati899
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- Location
- north dorset
I’ve not missed watching the wholecrop daily this year for 10 days just waiting for the one day for it to be right to chop [emoji85]
- Location
- Northern Ireland
Aye. Itll have been been fair changing this week with the hot weather.
We’ve binned off wholecrop this year too (too much grass silage) and are crimping SB even as I type
More milk in that than any wholecrop!
dinderleat
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- Location
- Wells
Crimping or maximom?
- Location
- Northern Ireland
Soft cheese here, as the little one was pointing out to me.
Using some Pioneer stuff called Rapid React at £1.50/t as opposed to £6/t but we can start using it in 10 days as a direct replacement for soda wheat in our home blend
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Headless chicken
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- Location
- West Wales
If I were to be having issues with wholecrop going off during the winter due to the face being too big would spraying acid on the face after each cut preserve it enough?
Crop just keeps on coming, no one wants any and I’m really not set up at all for crimp so trying to think of ways around it before the inevitable.
Crop just keeps on coming, no one wants any and I’m really not set up at all for crimp so trying to think of ways around it before the inevitable.
Make a field clamp for a dry summer one day