I thought last March was bad but this year’s far worse,fûçk it’s depressing.I’ve got ground that looks like that that was last grazed in January. Walked across one of our mowing meadows yesterday that we normally turn the first 50 outfits onto until mid May. It’s not fit to graze 1 ewe, never mind ewes and lambs. It’s green, but between the grass and the soil is 1/8 inch of water
You mean a mixed herbal ley?
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I've done a bit of it and I've found that does happen sometimes but for some reason i can't explain it doesn't happen everywhere. There is a field here behind the house that has had at least one horse on it for 25 years all winter. I have kept up to 10 heifers all winter the past few years (make less mess than one horse and they may as well be or the horse will be there
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I've never thought of that till I wrote it now though.
Only when im at a safe distance
Its meWhat does your other mate do?
Why?
Soil ph would maybe have something to do with it too I reckonI've done a bit of it and I've found that does happen sometimes but for some reason i can't explain it doesn't happen everywhere. There is a field here behind the house that has had at least one horse on it for 25 years all winter. I have kept up to 10 heifers all winter the past few years (make less mess than one horse and they may as well be or the horse will be there
The field is a bit rough in odd places but the grass is just as good as it always has been and it used to be a hay field. No weeds apart from a patch of creeping thistles on one corner.
Have got another 2 fields next to it I've wintered cattle on once or twice and they are OK as well.
Just the other side of the stream, same soil type and steepish as well, hasn't had cattle all winter but has had some turned out early onto them and they grow moss. I can't really explain why they do and the others don't. Maybe because they are north facing and the others face east/south
Wouldn't do it on anything near a new reseed though the ones I've done it on are all over 50 year old leys. Try and let them seed the next summer as well that has to help fill in the gaps.
I did say 3 or 4 years of that, not once every 4 years. I still can't get my head round paddling grass in the winter instead of going for maximum spring and summer growth when it has its maximum feed value
Maybe. The ones that grow the moss are the ones that had lime last though 10 years ago maybe. None has been spread in a long time anywhere really (its on the list next after fixing a shed and replacing a loader tractor)
You usually get moss growing in permanent pasture on steep north facing fields.At least thats where i get it.
Don't ever let your land know you're poor! Lime would be before a loader and a shed roof!
It's waited till now it can wait another year or two. it still grows grass just not as much as it could. They grow about 6-7t/dm/ha fields around them grow 8-9t.
Not if the lime was in the shed an you need the loader to move it you wouldn't
I wouldn't put it in a shed with no roof anyway!Not if the lime was in the shed an you need the loader to move it you wouldn't
I just leave it outside with plastic sheet over it. did the same with some nitrogen in granular form couple year ago.