Just had a listen to John Kempf & it kind of makes sense to me that we are trying to answer the wrong question; how can we lock up more carbon?
The question should be "how can we cycle more carbon?"
Hell of an interesting listen, carbon cycling bit around 30 mins in.
Is there a way of trialing/testing/forecasting a new system? i.e.
1. If there's carry over silage in the pit then use young stock to trample some tall grass late spring & rest a trial area.
2. Put a select group of milkers on it cell grazing in autumn. Record milk yield, cow health etc etc...
Struggling to get my head round this one as well. If you had not made the silage but grazed/ trampled later to reduce your housed time, it means buying in silage, but not buying fert. maybe? Seems to be the dilemma of an all breeding stock system where you are trying to get end to end value i.e...
Amazing what cold they will stand with full bellies, makes mine look like light weights! It's the wet & cold that can kill lambs here, also breeding. Remember a few years back leaving two sets of fresh twins out, both ewes had milk & lambs were getting up & trying to suck. Next morning one set...
Paying £1,900/t for Whey (dried cheese making waste) based milk powder. At 200g/ltr = £0.38p/ltr if I got the math! How much is milk out the bulk tank selling for?
Tried undersowing combinable pea/barley (100kg/acre) with white clover (3kg/acre) this year, but clover was up to high to combine so mown & bales left in field for cows (turned out yesterday). Broadcast kale/stb. turnip mix onto stubble, but bit late. Clover is more for soil cover/N fixing than...
Pea/barley whole crop @ 50kg/acre, undersown with a Cotswolds herbal ley mix 13kg/acre. Cut w/c early (milky barley grain stage, some ears not formed) as heavy crop shading ley (10 bales/acre). Drifted sheep over as chicory was bolting, but seeing what @Fenwick was grazing/trampling, could have...
Have you tried her biological herbicide idea? i.e. stick your weeds in a barrel under weight, bit of water & time. Thinking being the bugs & critters that like eating/breaking down the weeds can then be sprayed onto them in the field.
Struggling to get my head round teas & extracts, on the one...
Think I get it, will try & close up a couple of cells/plots, see what happens.
Will also have a redesign from paddocks to lanes with that easy adjustable front fence (strip grazing?) & no back fence while their calving maybe.
Hardest thing is going to be getting a "break" on the system i.e...
Awesome 👍
Brain fog moment!
If I put in some "safe to fail" plots to find optimum recovery (yellow litter), won't it be effected by time of year/heading date i.e. graze April may recover by June. Graze October may recover by April. So would have to do monthly/rotational plots?
When you say "injecting it", I'm thinking rip & drip down the back of a sward lifter/subsoiler leg, or squirting into Suffolk colter on drill behind powerharrow. Is there an optimum depth for compost teas? Sounds like better in the soil than on top?
What your saying makes sense, suppose the only negative to posting a sample is what effect that has on the biology. Have you tested that i.e. sample in the field v same posted?
Write a book @som farmer
Even if it's just a collection of all the posts you've put on TFF (edit out the wittering on bits), technical/historical stuff i.e. hay equivalents, stories & recollections, think it was you that said about someone having a new bathroom fitted but they still preferred...
Think that could be worth trying. 200 fresh ewes & lambs in 2 acre cells on 3 to 4 leaf grass, wherever that may be, daily shifts just nipping the tops off. 30 cows/calves on acre cells or tighter if grass there, twice daily shifts. But all with enough flexibility to jingle around i.e. park cow...
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