Tufted Vetch I believe, we've had a record year for it here, last year there was one small patch, this year it's spread all over the place and is thriving everywhere.Whilst mowing an old permanant pasture last week i came across this, wild vetch if im not mistaken?
Field not been ploughed for 30 years+
Quiet abit of it about.
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That's just steep enough. I know one of the models gets the EV grant/sub in the UK, but they seem really expensive overseas.Really nice bit of kit, the bike. UBCO has a distributor over here in NL. Checked the pricing. €6500 incl vat. All kinds of tax reduction possible however you have to be making a profit to reduce taxes on profit.
If I'd only have cattle (single wire fencing) and or an arable operation it would be something I'd consider. Or if a rappa winder would fit/work. But from a ROI point of view the €500 puch maxi (moped) can't be beaten.
Quite different to the wild/common vetch here, it's got a much finer leaflet and violet flowers, with very little varigation. Winter shrinks it down, but it soon pops up again.this is what l call vetch, yellow and purple, grows wild here, in the hedges. Cant really get an enlargement of the pic from @tinsheet, so might be the same, or not.View attachment 980808View attachment 980802View attachment 980805View attachment 980806
That looks pretty tight as it is? Be interesting to see what weight gains they've made. My cows are leaving a lot more behind than that, although what they're on is nothing like that quality. The calf dung looks a bit stiff but the calves seem to be doing alright. I'm just hoping that they are getting enough quality.Heifers have got a bit loose the last few days so going to shut them down a bit tighter to see if I can stiffen them up a bit and reset the grass after focusing on cattle growth for the last 2 cycles. Weighing tomorrow to see how weight gains have been
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Certainly there is some great food in there. And lots of it. My estimate would be between 3 1/2 - 4 1/2 tons DM/Acre. What is your formula for utilization %? How many animals do you have on it and what is the average brake size of the sets.
What was your target weight gain?It’s patchy because I have gone for less density for the last 2 rounds to see if I can up the growth rates.
They have done 0.8 so each acre over the last 53 days has grown 2 kg of beef per day.
Next round they will be stocked at a higher density.
Target was hopefully a kilo per day but 0.8 isn’t too bad.What was your target weight gain?
Interesting to put weight per acre up, i think that is probably a better way to measure performance than chase a high individual animal performance.
But i suppose it depends on your objective.
if you work in kg/ac beef sold, and then compare breeds, some interesting facts appear, not what farmers expect.What was your target weight gain?
Interesting to put weight per acre up, i think that is probably a better way to measure performance than chase a high individual animal performance.
But i suppose it depends on your objective.
And then inputs such as fertiliser, sprays and creep feed convert into acres would make it even more interesting. Shoving a heap of creep into calves may make the figure look better when in fact you are just renting acres to supply the grain.if you work in kg/ac beef sold, and then compare breeds, some interesting facts appear, not what farmers expect.
Yep, the old "buying in acres" fallacy.And then inputs such as fertiliser, sprays and creep feed convert into acres would make it even more interesting. Shoving a heap of creep into calves may make the figure look better when in fact you are just renting acres to supply the grain.
Not paid in just kg/acre beef sold though, some kg's are worth more than others.if you work in kg/ac beef sold, and then compare breeds, some interesting facts appear, not what farmers expect.
And then inputs such as fertiliser, sprays and creep feed convert into acres would make it even more interesting. Shoving a heap of creep into calves may make the figure look better when in fact you are just renting acres to supply the grain.
Yep, the old "buying in acres" fallacy.
It should really be called what it is: burning energy to burn energy to burn a little bit more energy, and considering it to be more efficient
the horror of someone else being more efficient by simply doing less of that is quite real
degenerative somewhere else so that don't matter.but sounds pretty degenerative to me.
Feeding people I don't know.. sounds similarly degenerativesounds pretty degenerative to me.
Capitalism took over from Feudalism.Feeding people I don't know.. sounds similarly degenerative
I'm on the fence with this one, as always context matters. Most all of us are pawning the landscape somehow
there isn't much need for us to do balegrazing here as it doesn't work as well in our system as other systems, I'm more thinking along the lines of having my haystacks blowing in the breeze and soaking up sunshine than when to cut it and how many times to turn it.
But then again I'm more than happy to pay for someone else to make hay and put super and MOP on their land, if it means their paddock 51 is paying its way (why did we ever put a monetary value on land, remind me??)