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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    I was wondering if you were going to refer to this article on here KP……while the others on here probably haven’t seen the comments on Facebook I thought they ranged from unnecessarily judgement to complete rubbish.
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    It has been weird alright when there is a wind they will only last a few hours same with a gale and they have tend to be at night….generally I would say the last 4-5 years there has be far less westerlies more easterlies when there is a wind…..nothing one would could call a harvest wind. I...
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    “Stuff all westerlies” that’s an understatement KP wind has almost been nonexistent from any direction this season!!!!
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    One of the new fads here is barley with clover 2 cuts of balage and then bale feed cows on the same paddock over winter. The clover is suppose to provide the N but As you mentioned it takes clover 4years to fix significant amounts….I have questioned a couple of field techs about this and have...
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    Totally agree with that and similar to my thinking so I can’t have lost it yet!
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    They don’t say what’s in the mix at all……
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    It’s the “after 35 days” that I’m questioning my understanding was seedlings live on the nutrients within the seed for about 2 weeks so that bring it down to 20 odd days for root mass growth and interaction with soil biology
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    This is floating around Facebook…..bottom photos are 35days after a cover crop sown with some bio stimulates by a regen farming advisor in the north island what do you guys think?
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    They did 22ha/load about an hour spraying, 30 to 45mins to load up.
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    I had lime flour put on. mine was applied by a contractor with a tow and fert multi 4000 I have a photo but it doesn’t seem to want to load. Kiwi built machine holds up to 5ton fert suppended in water
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    Yeah bit nuts isn’t it…..169mm of rain here since the start of Dec. sounds like quite a few dairy farmers have fed out their winter balage around here don’t know how they will replace it, know one guy feeding 80 bales a day!!!!!!!….so guess rural support will need all the 100k and some.🤷‍♂️
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    Beans excellent!!! I’m out of slingshot ammo👍
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    How long did it take to psych yourself up to use the plough there Pete
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    Couldn’t agree more but my contractor is the other way round sends an account once a year!!!!! No idea how he does it🤷‍♂️ Know one guy who got a account for 80k one year
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