Bossfarmer
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- Location
- between Perth and Inverness
sounds like it doesnt need to be as precise and technical as folk make out this rotational grazing
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The more you tighten them up the more you get out of it as a rule of thumb but make it to much work and you soon get fed up.
we had lots of little fields so baring leaving all the gates open or putting half a dozen in each field we have to rotational graze,
they tend to stay in the same field for between a day and a week here depending on the size of field and the number of animals and how much pasture is there and how far I want to take it down, so not very precise at all.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
The main thing is not to leave them in a paddock more than 4 days and not to graze it so low as to have the residuals below about 1500 kg DM/ha (coke can standing up?).
After grazing, grass puts all it’s energy into a new shoot. If you graze that off (day 5) then you delay regrowth, which means you won’t be growing more grass.
‘Grass grows grass’ is the important rule. If there are no grass leaves, it ain’t growing much.
Not always as easy in practice of course….
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Jon 3085
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- Location
- Worcester, UK
Just unloaded this ,£255.00 a bag 
Skintagain
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- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
Is that down a bit from the dizzy heights?
Wouldnt know
Skintagain
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- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
It’s still a heart wrenching price
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Just unloaded this ,£255.00 a bag
That’s better. We’ll have to start talking in price per bag, then it all seems so much more affordable.
If things get really bad, we can start quoting per cwt bag.
Or if really really bad a jiffy bag .That’s better. We’ll have to start talking in price per bag, then it all seems so much more affordable.
If things get really bad, we can start quoting per cwt bag.
county down
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- Location
- downpatrick
20 10 10 just been quoted 450£ in northern ireland some messing about being done
It was only blue bag N that got to £685 I think.
Skintagain
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- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
I would sit and cry if I had a load at that money.
Water Wheel
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Should I buy at that price ?
200 dairy cows and followers to feed next year, at a cow to the acre, no fertilizer bought.
Can I afford not to buy enough to at least start the season?
Thats your call but i cant see it dropping much if at all this season and dont think it will ever come down to past prices once its up it up
It has been at or near these levels before
lloyd
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Have you succumbed to temptation yet?
When it was did it drop fast or was over a while to come back
Not saying it hasnt but i cant remember it being at these prices before
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Its worth waiting, a long way to go yet, all bubbles burst in the end.