No, not that I know of but was having a conversation with a man that is and I was wondering if his sums added up.
With good soil fertility and land that doesn't suffer much from drought or rain, you could go a bit stronger but that stocking rate would be manageable by most people.
I guess you eould need the same again for silage ground?
You would need most of it, anyway. There's guys near me doing similar. Highly stocked on the grazing platform and taking any surplus off early as bales and adding some back to slow the rotation.
1 acre per cow of 1st cut,the golden rule
How long is a piece of string? Depends weather your going to graze full time, graze part time or full tmr all year round.
We'd be at 50-55% first cut in addition to bales from the grazing. 25-35% second cut depending on reserves. 15% closed for 3rd but that would be mostly used as deferred grazing for the cows or drys.
Housing for cows at night starts mid Sept to possibly mid April, start of May. Most cattle fully housed by mid October, we've a long winter in n antrim. You must be alot further south
About as far as you can get before falling off
Good job the pipe is 30ft longSimple. Because their work is more important than yours, or the contractor who is trying to squeeze past them.
Contrary to what the BBC themselves would suggest, they don't actually control the weather.
I'm fed up looking at them, they're in tv nearly 50 years, time for some young blood even they haven't a clue about the weather
