- Location
- pembrokeshire
my father and his brothers were traditional mixed farmers sheep cattle pigs and a little wheat barley and oats, the only firt used was basic slag and ground limestone however in their time they were pilloried for being old fashioned when I started i got educated and was told that you need 300 units of n per annum to grow grass, the oldies said the use of artificial firt (bag muck)would ruin a grass ley as it encouraged surface rooting the grass-grown with all that n just made cows sh!t like water because that was all that was in it, also because the grass was shallow rooting it would not be rich in minerals thus encouraging metabolic disorders and prone to drought