Recent content by Rob Garrett

Awesome 👍. Had this idea that spreading uncomposted woodchip uses N to breakdown, carbon:N ratio explains it. Love joining up the dots ☺️

Just had a listen to John Kempf & it kind of makes sense to me that we are trying to answer the wrong question; how can we lock up more carbon? The question should be "how can we cycle more carbon?" Hell of an interesting listen, carbon cycling bit around 30 mins in.

Is there a way of trialing/testing/forecasting a new system? i.e. 1. If there's carry over silage in the pit then use young stock to trample some tall grass late spring & rest a trial area. 2. Put a select group of milkers on it cell grazing in autumn. Record milk yield, cow health etc etc...

Struggling to get my head round this one as well. If you had not made the silage but grazed/ trampled later to reduce your housed time, it means buying in silage, but not buying fert. maybe? Seems to be the dilemma of an all breeding stock system where you are trying to get end to end value i.e...

Amazing what cold they will stand with full bellies, makes mine look like light weights! It's the wet & cold that can kill lambs here, also breeding. Remember a few years back leaving two sets of fresh twins out, both ewes had milk & lambs were getting up & trying to suck. Next morning one set...

Thank you KP 👍, this lad is worth subscribing to. Loving the no freeze water trough & breaking in a mule!

That's interesting thank you. How long will the formic acid treated stuff last in barrel's? Do you need to keep it cool or just in the shed?

Paying £1,900/t for Whey (dried cheese making waste) based milk powder. At 200g/ltr = £0.38p/ltr if I got the math! How much is milk out the bulk tank selling for?

Calves are looking good, are you feeding milk or powder? (How much for how long etc?). Are they all out of your Hols?

Tried undersowing combinable pea/barley (100kg/acre) with white clover (3kg/acre) this year, but clover was up to high to combine so mown & bales left in field for cows (turned out yesterday). Broadcast kale/stb. turnip mix onto stubble, but bit late. Clover is more for soil cover/N fixing than...

Pea/barley whole crop @ 50kg/acre, undersown with a Cotswolds herbal ley mix 13kg/acre. Cut w/c early (milky barley grain stage, some ears not formed) as heavy crop shading ley (10 bales/acre). Drifted sheep over as chicory was bolting, but seeing what @Fenwick was grazing/trampling, could have...

Any thoughts on using soil base saturation (CEC) as a better measure of soil health than standard soil analysis?

Have you tried her biological herbicide idea? i.e. stick your weeds in a barrel under weight, bit of water & time. Thinking being the bugs & critters that like eating/breaking down the weeds can then be sprayed onto them in the field. Struggling to get my head round teas & extracts, on the one...

Think I get it, will try & close up a couple of cells/plots, see what happens. Will also have a redesign from paddocks to lanes with that easy adjustable front fence (strip grazing?) & no back fence while their calving maybe. Hardest thing is going to be getting a "break" on the system i.e...

Forgive the lack of terminology! What's the difference between compost extract & tea? Is the same process used i.e. compost infused in airated water?