Yeah they've been in at night on decent grub for a couple of weeks. Keep thinking one wet day will be ok it'll be dry tomorrow but hasn't happened and milks dropped so I've given up. Still got lows out day and night
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buffalo_soldier
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- Location
- cumbria
Mine are in now also. Had a small group protest on Saturday, not a peep out of them yesterday and judging by the gale noises I'm hearing outside I think I'm having another coffee before I go out.
I was lying there thinking that this wind may help dry it out a bit
Cows 'n grass
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- Location
- Modbury, South Devon
Ever the optimist..
Sylution
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- Location
- Carmarthenshire
Some 5th cut. Mowed yeterday. Rake today and bale tomorow. Hope it will dry the field inbetween rows for carting the bales off. Ground is soft. But drying well today. Be glad to finish the silage this year. No 3 days of weather together since June I feel. Excellent grass growth mind.
- Location
- North West
We have a broad range of problems on farm but getting heifers to lie in cubicles isn't one of them!
These 8 calf middle of the month, they got brought back around 5 and we're all lying in by 9. Never seen a cubicle before.
Mr Mackay
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- Location
- HMP Slade , Shropshire
Managed to get our 3rd cut yesterday . 147 bales off 16 acres !! Not that wet ,wind had helped dry it quite a bit ! Had needed cutting for the last 3 weeks really but had held off as its rented ground and then the weather ensued !
Was enough on it (like a smaller first cut)to not have to rake and the baler mans Fusion liked the flat even feed . He said how there would have been loads more soil in it if we had scrathed it into one great swath ,plus the baler makes some horrible bales that noone would want to try moving with our Traileyre
Would have held off till today or tomorrow ,to let ground dry but when do we get 3 goodish days together
Anyway , a relieved man today , all stacked and carted/wrapped by 10 last night
Was enough on it (like a smaller first cut)to not have to rake and the baler mans Fusion liked the flat even feed . He said how there would have been loads more soil in it if we had scrathed it into one great swath ,plus the baler makes some horrible bales that noone would want to try moving with our Traileyre
Would have held off till today or tomorrow ,to let ground dry but when do we get 3 goodish days together
Anyway , a relieved man today , all stacked and carted/wrapped by 10 last night
Ducati899
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- Location
- north dorset
Cut of silage...maize and then drilled with grass in bang on 5 months
Mr Mackay
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- Location
- HMP Slade , Shropshire
Good warm damp weather for germination ! I have sown 7 acres of fastgrass /Italian on the bank above the farm , ten days ago ,and it looks lovely and a bit greener each morning!!
Headless chicken
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- Location
- West Wales
Little bit jelous of your your growing conditions!
Durry cows
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- Location
- Derbyshire
How have you cultivated the ground can I ask? Obviously not ploughed as stubble on top but looks level and good seed bed
Ducati899
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- Location
- north dorset
How have you cultivated the ground can I ask? Obviously not ploughed as stubble on top but looks level and good seed bed
Shakerator and power Harrowed
Clay52
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- Location
- Outer Space
Front end loader totally snapped off the tractor on one side yesterday. That was fun to deal with.
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Well done .
Clay52
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- Location
- Outer Space
I saw some farms in the US are spreading seed of the next crop on the maize with a helicopter a few weeks before harvest so that it’s already up and going by time you harvest the maize.
multi power
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
Lack of maintenance
Clay52
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- Location
- Outer Space
Suprisingly not. One of the main brackets snapped in half, not even at a weld. There seems to be a tiny crack that developed at a stress point over time that was almost impossible to see but it just broke through from there. The loader come down and smashed the bonnet.
Ducati899
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- Location
- north dorset