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Cowmansam

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Branded heifers then moved to a new bit
 

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Cowmansam

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What type of clover is it?
No idea they where red clover at one point but that seemed to die out and what’s come back has a smaller leaf than what was originally drilled a few years ago
 

cows sh#t me to tears

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What type of clover is it?
No idea they where red clover at one point but that seemed to die out and what’s come back has a smaller leaf than what was originally drilled a few years ago
Is it mainly a summer based clover? Could be a white clover variety? That pic I posted in the fert vs fallow thread is a balansa clover. I've also got subterranean and Persian clover in. All are annuals.
 

Cowmansam

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Shropshire
Yer I’d say you could be right certainly shows more in summer is a bit less upright than the reds we drilled didn’t really rate the red much was fairly underwhelming we have clover all over the farm this year more than ever think it’s just been the right conditions for them
 
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East Mids
I mentioned syncing heifers the other day at grass and it sounds like it’s a bad idea in the autumn, would need to be bringing them in shortly to settle them down before we AI them, but it seems a shame when there is so much grass about, what do others do for autumn calving?
Never sync. Start serving 1 November to natural heat, bring them in around 3 weeks earlier, collar them, rumen magnets, IBR booster, worm, so they will be in in a couple of weeks.

1 serve to sexed semen and then put the bull in. The mob just calved, 100% submission rate, 1 barren, (sold in the summer) and 58% conception to first serve.
 
Never sync. Start serving 1 November to natural heat, bring them in around 3 weeks earlier, collar them, rumen magnets, IBR booster, worm, so they will be in in a couple of weeks.

1 serve to sexed semen and then put the bull in. The mob just calved, 100% submission rate, 1 barren, (sold in the summer) and 58% conception to first serve.
Great work, what do you feed them?
 

som farmer

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somerset
Is it mainly a summer based clover? Could be a white clover variety? That pic I posted in the fert vs fallow thread is a balansa clover. I've also got subterranean and Persian clover in. All are annuals.
we are trying balsana clover, hoping it will come earlier than the white, this is in grazing. I was under the impression it was perennial, time will tell. Also meant to produce more N, as well.
Until you try some of these 'other' crops, you really don't know, what they will do, for you.
We have had some really good results, growing hybrid rye, thanks to an aus crop walker, this year, we grew it with vetch, 15 t fresh weight/acre, and followed by maize, a massive crop this year, but it will be later to harvest, and to late to sow rye, so, wheat instead of it.
 

cows sh#t me to tears

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It is perennial if you let it seed down. I sow it every Autumn in conjunction with the rest of my program as I need to make sure I get something to grow for the expensive irrigation water I use.
Ot doesn't produce much growth over winter here. But absolutely takes off as the days lengthen in our spring. Once it's done though, that's it till next year (here anyway)
 
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East Mids
Great work, what do you feed them?
bale silage and 1 kg dairy cake. At grass prior to that they are on 1kg cake too so they are a good size for serving to calve at 23-24 months.

Ironically we used to calve at 22-23 months (because some replacements born Sept/Oct but then calved Aug) but now all our replacements are basically born in August we can't get it any lower without calving earlier every year which we don't want!
 

vantage

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Pembs
That's the old farm on the dairy unit. The conversion potential of the stone barns is a big part of why I got this lovely pair this spring.
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Not quite as pretty as a stone courtyard but a thousand times more useful.

Most farms around here have a very similar set of stone barns all built when they were part of the same estate in the 1800's
Who made the shed, see you have galvanised valley gutter?
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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