Stubble turnips
- Thread starter Stockbeare
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Well fenced fields. Variable crops though so thought a price/head/week would be a fairer way.
carpenter1
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- Location
- devon
i have got 12 acres in stubble turnips, and that has been entered in mid tier too, but not heard.
if not i am going to put grass back.
if not i am going to put grass back.
markpentre
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- Location
- wrexham
how do store cattle do on stubble turnips??
Stockbeare
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- Location
- Devon
I am going to pay 50p / week, thanks for the comments.
About right. I get 55p with my grazier doing the fencing.
@Forage Trader will tell you he gets £1, but he's got an expensive new truck/ car to pay for
Downton_shep
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- Location
- Leintwardine
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Sorry, I don't know. I haven't seen much work done on feed value, let alone at different stages.
Sheep don't seem to do as well once they bolt and get woody stems, so presumably there is a slow transition to lower feed value before that happens?
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
About right. I get 55p with my grazier doing the fencing.
@Forage Trader will tell you he gets £1, but he's got an expensive new truck/ car to pay for
Man down the road supposed to be on £1/hd/wk for turnips too, with the grazier doing the fencing. I think, at that rate, the grazier would have to be bad at counting heads to make it pay.
I know of someone else locally that claimed he was getting £1.10 (with him fencing/lookering) a couple of years ago. He's not got tack sheep in this year though, he's buying lambs out of the fat to eat them instead!
kfpben
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- Location
- Mid Hampshire
gone up the hill
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- Devon
I cant understand anyone renting the grazing out on ST for less than £0.80/1 head week!
Not a cheap crop to grow.
Not a cheap crop to grow.
It was already broken.
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- South Norfolk
I'm paying 50p/head/week here and lots of people interested in growing them. The ones we are on are quite small and drilled very thickly but the ewes seem to be doing really well on them. Damn sight easier than fudging about with silage bales. I do the fencing and checking but I would anyway, you can't trust some arable boy driving past at 30mph looking over the hedge once a day.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
If they are being grown as one of the now fashionable 'cover crops', before drilling Spring crops in an attempt to outwit the Blackgrass threat, then you might argue that the grazier is doing the grower a favour by turning that cover crop into a slow release fertiliser.
I reckoned 50p/hd/wk is about fair to cover growing costs of an 'average' crop. If the crop does well, the grower gets more. It should also be remembered that 90% of the nutrients (both applied to the crop and captured/prevented from leaching away) from the crop, are deposited back on the ground for the following crop.
CopperBeech
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- A Welsh man lost in England
Paying nowt, we will establish it, and graze it, you get the muck and benefit to the ground. . . .
It was already broken.
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- Location
- South Norfolk
What date have you agreed to be off by @CopperBeech?
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
My grazier supplies the seed, fertiliser and chemical I do the land work drill,spread fertiliser and spraying. He gets the grazing and I get the benifit of his fertiliser and the sheep, everyone's a winner.
Trouble with backend stubble turnips can go woody and frosts make all leaf (most palatable bit) disappear.
Sheep that are new to them may take some steps back before going forward, dependant on weather and market price not necessarily always a bad thing.
Sheep that are new to them may take some steps back before going forward, dependant on weather and market price not necessarily always a bad thing.