pauld
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- Location
- Pershore Worcestershire
17 degrees here today. Went to check sheep and heads down grazing and hadn't touched hay put out yesterday. Too soon to get complacent though.
Grass growing?
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Guiggs
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- Location
- Leicestershire
It's got a fresh green tinge on the fields around here, well the fields that aren't just mud and fecking water that is!
More than a fresh tinge here, got about an inch across the whole farm, it very tempting the get some ewes of the Somme, I mean beet to graze it.
serf
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- Location
- warwickshire
Got some prota plus going for it ,
hasn't stopped since it was sown !
hasn't stopped since it was sown !
- Location
- somerset
yes
muleman
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Eating a lot of haylage here in cumbria... dont think ive ever known them as hungry, bit of grass available aswell away from the mud!
- Location
- Cheshire
Get it grazed before the cold winds robs it!More than a fresh tinge here, got about an inch across the whole farm, it very tempting the get some ewes of the Somme, I mean beet to graze it.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Get it grazed before the cold winds robs it!
Nooooooo! Grass needs a leaf to grow in the Spring, otherwise you end up moaning about late Springs like all the other sheep farmers that have stock wandering round on their grass fields all winter.
yes cocksfoot noticably so and the late sown annual ryegrasses are now beginning to get legs
its been a mild winter ( so far
) here .
mind you it grows more noticeably when the deluge stops and without cold air temps lowering ground temps the drier ground has been warmer as per theory.
still short of keep tho.
its been a mild winter ( so far
) here .mind you it grows more noticeably when the deluge stops and without cold air temps lowering ground temps the drier ground has been warmer as per theory.
still short of keep tho.
- Location
- Cheshire
Unfortunately here I’ve tried leaving a nice bite on if February when I’ve housed the ewes. Had a cold March and it’s taken the lot off!Nooooooo! Grass needs a leaf to grow in the Spring, otherwise you end up moaning about late Springs like all the other sheep farmers that have stock wandering round on their grass fields all winter.
serf
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- Location
- warwickshire
What February grows march mowsUnfortunately here I’ve tried leaving a nice bite on if February when I’ve housed the ewes. Had a cold March and it’s taken the lot off!
- Location
- West Wales
Everything west facing gets decimated here by winds, you can build a 6” wedge of beautiful grass and clover and it’ll be gone in 6 hours of salty winds so we hammer these down to nothing from October onwards, take ewes off mid feb and their back on them with lambs early march.Unfortunately here I’ve tried leaving a nice bite on if February when I’ve housed the ewes. Had a cold March and it’s taken the lot off!
Grass grows at 4*C, clover at 6*C. Fields I thought would last 3 days have done 6 days and still not eaten down when looking this morning
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
Lucky you, mine has never really got going! Hoping to get a bite from it in the spring.
serf
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- Location
- warwickshire
Been brilliant stuff considering the start it had , sown start may , cold wet every day on it in May but it soldiered through and not stopped growing, near enough continously grazed till Nov, then on and off since .should fly again soon hopefully.
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
How did you establish it? No spray, power harrowed, rolled, drilled, rolled here. May was bloody cold and dry which didn't help.
serf
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- Location
- warwickshire
Finished grazing turnips in April, then chain harrowed things level abit as they were finishing grazing ,
gave it about 2l/Ha R,up a while after because the old PP had started coming back ,
Springtined it a few times with chain harrows following , then spun on with slug pelleter and rolled begging of May.
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serf
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- Location
- warwickshire
June above , July below
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Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
I was trying to be a bit more regenerative and didn't use the round-up. Wish I had really, as what was there got away in front of the prota plus due to the poor conditions for germination (I think). It's come in much better where there was less competition, where there were ring feeders over the winter particularly. It was a stemmy mess by August and I ended up topping it which the annual clovers didn't like. It's been shut up since mid-November and I'm hoping it'll provide an early bite for the ewes, at least.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Everything west facing gets decimated here by winds, you can build a 6” wedge of beautiful grass and clover and it’ll be gone in 6 hours of salty winds so we hammer these down to nothing from October onwards, take ewes off mid feb and their back on them with lambs early march.
Grass grows at 4*C, clover at 6*C. Fields I thought would last 3 days have done 6 days and still not eaten down when looking this morning
I wasn’t referring to leaving 6” of grass (we don’t all get that much growth in February
), but an inch or so of green leaf that pops up now is the solar panel to drive growth in the Spring. Grazing it all bare to the ground again now won’t provide a lot of keep, but will set Spring growth back weeks.