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som farmer

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Our organic maize looking ok to farmer who not grown it befor🤣🤣 going into cow diet along side crimp barley, Red clover bales, what cake saving can I expect?
how do you get on with the crimp barley, we are doing some, for the first time this year, was meant to combine, and roll for y/s, but, son put N on, when l suggested not to, so buckled over, and would need a drier to get down to 18%.
Maize looks good, should be pleased with that, our late sown maize has done very well, l think if you drill later, into good warm soil, it grows like crazy, and beats weed growth.
 

DairyGrazing

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Mixed Farmer
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North West
how do you get on with the crimp barley, we are doing some, for the first time this year, was meant to combine, and roll for y/s, but, son put N on, when l suggested not to, so buckled over, and would need a drier to get down to 18%.
Maize looks good, should be pleased with that, our late sown maize has done very well, l think if you drill later, into good warm soil, it grows like crazy, and beats weed growth.

Personally I rate maxamon from harbro the highest. Once did it at 25% moisture no problem. We have tried others and they have not been successful.
 

Milkcow365

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Location
Sw Scotland
how do you get on with the crimp barley, we are doing some, for the first time this year, was meant to combine, and roll for y/s, but, son put N on, when l suggested not to, so buckled over, and would need a drier to get down to 18%.
Maize looks good, should be pleased with that, our late sown maize has done very well, l think if you drill later, into good warm soil, it grows like crazy, and beats weed growth.
Crimp all my grain that’s used for cow feed just use maize additive cheap as chips, we dry all the grain that we sell but as soon as it touches the dryer your talking £12 cost plus rolling say £10/12, crimp does away with the first £12
 

Farmer Keith

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North Cumbria
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Plantain drilled in May looking awesome after a slow start with the dry summer.
 

som farmer

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Livestock Farmer
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somerset
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Plantain drilled in May looking awesome after a slow start with the dry summer.
we drilled plantain, and chicory, last autumn, 1st time, plantain was good at the start of grazing, tailed off with max grass growth, now grass 'slowing', both are 'taking' over, but, it's either plantain, with a bit of chicory, or vv, but not both good together. No idea if that is normal, odd, or what, cows certainly like them.
 

Farmer Keith

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Location
North Cumbria
we drilled plantain, and chicory, last autumn, 1st time, plantain was good at the start of grazing, tailed off with max grass growth, now grass 'slowing', both are 'taking' over, but, it's either plantain, with a bit of chicory, or vv, but not both good together. No idea if that is normal, odd, or what, cows certainly like them.
A neighbour has tried chicory here but it didn’t persist, maybe too far north?
 

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