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crashbox · May 22, 2022

Headless chicken said:
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what’s the collectives view on how best to deal with this post graze cover?
I’d love to say this was our regenerative agri trial but in reality i just told them not to mow half of a field so I had something to turn some beef into.
Rough guess they’re eating 30-40% trampling the rest. Do we just leave it be and let the regrowth come through? Or we do we need to top it?

my preference is to leave it well alone and let nature take its course but don’t want to balls up the regrwoth for second round.

Leave it, it'll be a long wait but will come back well IMO. Topper will just go over the top anyway.

Regen folks are often leaving 50+ days between grazings. If you're going to do that you'll need to pack them tighter.

vantage · May 22, 2022

Spudley said:
That's not today? It's raining here!

No yesterday. Raining here too, but just been down to St Florence and Lawrenny and it’s dry, even saw a silage trailer!

Headless chicken · May 22, 2022

On the upside buffalo growth rate off second quality grass is excellent, down side is the little barstewards ability to sneak up on you. Cow bells are going to have to be fitted as an early detection system I think

yin ewe · May 22, 2022

Headless chicken said:
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what’s the collectives view on how best to deal with this post graze cover?
I’d love to say this was our regenerative agri trial but in reality i just told them not to mow half of a field so I had something to turn some beef into.
Rough guess they’re eating 30-40% trampling the rest. Do we just leave it be and let the regrowth come through? Or we do we need to top it?

my preference is to leave it well alone and let nature take its course but don’t want to balls up the regrwoth for second round.

If you're going to graze the rest of it you could mow/top it before you put the cows in.

Beef farmer · May 22, 2022

Everything over 3300 was mown yesterday and clamped today ready for a dry spell. Rain and slurry tomorrow and start again

pappuller · May 22, 2022

William26 said:
No thread for this so I'll post in here, anyone know what height the concrete panel the cows reach over to feed should be?

We have a 600mm panel and feed passage is 100mm above cow standing, so cows are 700mm from floor to top of panel

Jdunn55 · May 22, 2022

Headless chicken said:
On the upside buffalo growth rate off second quality grass is excellent, down side is the little barstewards ability to sneak up on you. Cow bells are going to have to be fitted as an early detection system I think

You might have said already but what's the plan for the water buffalo? You going to milk them?

Headless chicken · May 22, 2022

Beef farmer said:
Everything over 3300 was mown yesterday and clamped today ready for a dry spell. Rain and slurry tomorrow and start again View attachment 1037809 View attachment 1037810

yard already full?

Manney · May 22, 2022

Beef farmer said:
Everything over 3300 was mown yesterday and clamped today ready for a dry spell. Rain and slurry tomorrow and start again View attachment 1037809 View attachment 1037810

Im hoping we don't see any rain tomorrow because we've just cut

Headless chicken · May 22, 2022

Jdunn55 said:
You might have said already but what's the plan for the water buffalo? You going to milk them?

These are two steers, so probably freezer. The plan is to milk 300 dairy cows this winter, then 100 spring calving buffalo on another unit if the deal comes through

Jdunn55 · May 22, 2022

Headless chicken said:
These are two steers, so probably freezer. The plan is to milk 300 dairy cows this winter, then 100 spring calving buffalo on another unit if the deal comes through

Is that 300 where you are and 100 buffalo ad well? How are you planning on staffing the two?

Jdunn55 · May 22, 2022

Headless chicken said:
These are two steers, so probably freezer. The plan is to milk 300 dairy cows this winter, then 100 spring calving buffalo on another unit if the deal comes through

Is that 300 where you are and 100 buffalo ad well? How are you planning on staffing the two?

Beef farmer · May 22, 2022

Manney said:
Im hoping we don't see any rain tomorrow because we've just cut

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I'm sure we are gonna get rain tomorrow.

Headless chicken said:
yard already full?

Yeah, might get 2nd cut in but that's it. Got a lot of forage kicking about.

vantage · May 22, 2022

Beef farmer said:
Everything over 3300 was mown yesterday and clamped today ready for a dry spell. Rain and slurry tomorrow and start again View attachment 1037809 View attachment 1037810

Keeping up with @Bald Rick ?

Beef farmer · May 22, 2022

vantage said:
Keeping up with @Bald Rick ?

50kph, so no, overtaking him.

Headless chicken · May 22, 2022

Jdunn55 said:
Is that 300 where you are and 100 buffalo ad well? How are you planning on staffing the two?

pass….. the honest truth is I have no clue. Calf girl goes off for lambing for a month in March normally. So aslong as we don’t calve anything then we’ll be fine.
the other potential site is 2 miles away and on the way to another unit we rent so not the end of the world. Would have to be OAD though or else we’d struggle

Beef farmer said:
Yeah, might get 2nd cut in but that's it. Got a lot of forage kicking about.

No maize? Are you going to use less n or plough on incase then? In theory between first cut and anticipated maize and wholecrop we’ve got enough, probably more than for this year and the best part of
Another year in stock. With that said we’ve got a lot of rented land that it doesn’t make sense to pull poor crops off due to lack of forage wagons.

Beef farmer · May 22, 2022

Headless chicken said:
pass….. the honest truth is I have no clue. Calf girl goes off for lambing for a month in March normally. So aslong as we don’t calve anything then we’ll be fine.
the other potential site is 2 miles away and on the way to another unit we rent so not the end of the world. Would have to be OAD though or else we’d struggle

No maize? Are you going to use less n or plough on incase then? In theory between first cut and anticipated maize and wholecrop we’ve got enough, probably more than for this year and the best part of
Another year in stock. With that said we’ve got a lot of rented land that it doesn’t make sense to pull poor crops off due to lack of forage wagons.

Maize is planted. Left room for it in self feed clamps.

crashbox · May 22, 2022

Beef farmer said:
Everything over 3300 was mown yesterday and clamped today ready for a dry spell. Rain and slurry tomorrow and start again View attachment 1037809 View attachment 1037810

Does the clamp ground not get hella muddy when feeding out?

What do you feed into if normally self feed, you got a wagon and feed bunks?

Martyn · May 22, 2022

Manney said:
Im hoping we don't see any rain tomorrow because we've just cut

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Your outfit or contractor? Thought your all dark green?!

Manney · May 22, 2022

Martyn said:
Your outfit or contractor? Thought your all dark green?!

I was chasing him around in the 818

Nice view over Penzance and Newlyn

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