dinderleat
Member
- Location
- Wells
Just get someone in to do it all in one day job done.
All things Dairy
- Thread starter Cows 'n grass
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dinderleat
Member
- Location
- Wells
Surley if they are already involved it would be their choice? Or your wanting to pass the business on with no debt which I admire you. Debt isn’t necessarily a bad thing as long as you can service it plus it does increase the drive to succeed.
kp_n_plghng
Member
Yes, last time we looked at it, it was baloney, if it worked it would be sold through vets and have reputable trial work. Instead of them going round in vans pedaling nonsense.
Ducati899
Member
- Location
- north dorset
I can recommend a bloody good trimmer if your looking for one,he’s been described as the Picasso of trimming by the last chap I recommended him too and he’s a tough crowd…ain’t that right @More to life
You mean he's cut his ear off?I can recommend a bloody good trimmer if your looking for one,he’s been described as the Picasso of trimming by the last chap I recommended him too and he’s a tough crowd…ain’t that right @More to life
lazy farmer
Member
- Location
- som/dor border
My choice. I arrived into the business very young and up against it. Don’t want that for anybody following me. If they want to borrow it will be their choice. But they will have a business that’s well invested and debt free
Holsteinfriesian90
Member
- Location
- Cornwall
Anyone else fed up with this January weather in august? 
You should give festival work a try. Everywhere is a muddy shitty mess at the moment.Anyone else fed up with this January weather in august?
Managed by people who don't have an ounce of common sense on the whole
- Location
- somerset
yes.Anyone else fed up with this January weather in august?
reckon one of our best decisions recently was to crimp the wheat, instead of combining it dry, as planned. It would still be going flat now, 90ton crimp in the shed instead
got most of the straw baled as well.
but for the first time this year, short of grazing. Just waiting to cut 50 acres of 4th cut.
- Location
- God's side of the border.
NoAnyone else fed up with this January weather in august?
- Location
- somerset
heard Launceston show was pretty bad.
Daughter and family, queued for 5 hours, to get out of the car park at Glastonbury, there were no stewards to control that traffic.
Cowabunga
Member
- Location
- Ceredigion,Wales
If the grass is a bit long or mature, I sometimes pre-top and let it wilt for twelve hours before letting the cows at it. They love it and eat it all up. A farm not far from here pre-mows all their grazing grass with a mower for better quality grass and less waste, so they can be kept more intensively also.
Cowabunga
Member
- Location
- Ceredigion,Wales
Texan Holsteins?
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
All the herbs you’ve got in your leys not growing cos it’s cold and wetyes.
reckon one of our best decisions recently was to crimp the wheat, instead of combining it dry, as planned. It would still be going flat now, 90ton crimp in the shed instead
got most of the straw baled as well.
but for the first time this year, short of grazing. Just waiting to cut 50 acres of 4th cut.
- Location
- somerset
we pre-mowed our grass all through the hot spell, it was mowing grass stage then, but we graze longer covers anyway, so had plenty there.
the sting in the tail, we now have acres of fresh grass, they hoover up to quickly, so grass is short, till we can silage 50 acres, a mix of 3rd and 4th cut.
you mean the blankets l carefully wrapped them up in, are not keeping them warm ?All the herbs you’ve got in your leys not growing cos it’s cold and wet
no trouble with growth, just weather holding us back.
- Location
- God's side of the border.
We are 4 inches top soil and then 150 foot of sand, rain every week is ideal for us. We have been able to grab silage between showers, but silage is secondary to grazing in our system.Anyone else fed up with this January weather in august?
- Location
- East Lancashire
Don’t mind rain every week, it’s the rain every day that I’m starting to struggle with. The last fortnight it must have rained more than 50% of the time. We have had 3 good dry days, but we have had quite a few days when it has rained non-stop over a 24 hour period. In the weeks before it was more a case of showers, which I can cope with. Little chance of getting any silaging done since the first half of June. Just glad I should have enough good stuff for the milk cows from the first crop at home. Just need some for the heifers now
At the 6th ( I think!) Festival in the last 3 weeks, opens in a couple of days and there's mud everywhere and a lot of stuck vans. Not had a dry build or break since Glastonbury.
This one is particularly bad, or it will be on Monday for the breakdown
Ideal for us also, took some bales off last Fri/Sat. This farm can take a lot of rain before it becomes an issue, hence only 25 days fully housed last year. Swings and roundabouts though, two weeks of hot dry weather and our growth falls off a cliff, fed 25 bales in June when it was dry and last summer was a shocker.
Are you Serious?