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  1. Jonny B88

    New entrant looking for advice on slatted sheds for sheep and cattle

    If your heart is set on sheep so be it but to me 150 acres of decent ground and 700 acres of rough hill shouts low input sucklers to me. Run them over the low ground in summer and hill in winter. Simple. on the sheep, i don't see the point in hanging a financial noose around your neck with...
  2. Jonny B88

    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    Funny we are having it the other way round!! Night time more impacted than daytime. Strange, maybe i have back to front cattle 😂😂
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    Interesting your twice daily being 8:00 and 14:00. Why 14:00 as opposed to later say 16:00? we have cattle doing 09:00 and around 16:30. Not for any particular reason.
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    What times are you moving them at?
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    There must be some amount of people in that WhatsApp group!!!?
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    So so so important!!!!!
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    Intensive cell grazing cattle

    Is that wire lifter fully automated!!??
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    Intensive cell grazing cattle

    Anyone having bother posting pictures from their phone library at the moment or is it just me? I was hoping to show you all how my attitudes have changed having moved in this grazing mindset
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    Intensive cell grazing cattle

    Yea I guess that comes down to an individual’s risk aversion too. A lot of brown might be grand to some, a little might send some into palpitations. Either way the ground nor the cattle care…actually can be the difference in giving the landscape function a kick up the arse and get working.
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    Intensive cell grazing cattle

    Don’t worry about things you can’t control, instead put effort into mitigating them.
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    Intensive cell grazing cattle

    As much as I got some stuff from Jims course, I would say you only start learning once you try stuff yourself. He won’t tell you nearly enough for your own context. Make ‘mistakes’ thats how you learn.
  12. Jonny B88

    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    Great job!!! You will have to get a new pen to keep up with the autographs!!!
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    😂😂😂 how many of us were told that!! it made me think of this from psalm 121 mind I to the hills will lift mine eyes, from whence doth come mine aid. 2 My safety cometh from the Lord, who heav'n and earth hath made.
  14. Jonny B88

    US Dairy Herd

    The power of mans ambition and ego right there!
  15. Jonny B88

    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    Whereabouts in the vendee did you all meet up? We holiday near st gilles croix de ville and it would be interesting to see something in the vendee other than maize and sandy paddocks with hay in them!! that sounds like a bloody awesome group well done to all
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    Yea well thats why it interests me to get a little more, why wouldn’t you enter it? Too much hassle? Can’t be bothered with the audit? I wasn’t too bothered until a guy who is farming similar to me said I should go for it??
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    As in questioning if there is a market or the conventional organic systems failing?
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    We had a certain AA scheme contract come through the post this year and I haven’t signed up. For exactly the reasons mentioned by Pete and others above. Started out as a nice bonus on top. Then the bonus split to certain production targets. Now its very much aiming For the intensive...
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    Am I being thick, but does a batt latch open a gateway style gap or does it drop an entire fence? Thats whats put me off them you either end up with a narrow gap for the cattle to walk through, not good in the wet! Or you end up with polywire on the ground earthing and getting chewed??? I have...
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    He would you say yourselves and the savory guys differ?
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