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You'll have the grass now but you'll find without N, once grazed off it won't grow back quite as fast therefore won't stand very high stocking rates. That's what I find anyway. We don't put any N on grazing ground or GS4 leys and they look great at turnout but you won't stock as hard throughout...

There would be a lot down here ended up with less than one apiece after schmallenberg

We must just be massively underproducing then as we don't put any N on grassland at all 🤷🏼‍♂️

Yes but that's still every month for 5 months. So 170kg N/ha total. Which is bang on what I'd put on a wheat crop. Just seemed a lot for grassland to me?!

Just seen this thread, are you saying you apply 125kg/ha every month?! So 625kg/ha (250kg/acre) in total through the season?! That's more than I put on wheat?! 🤔 how high are your stocking rates to justify requiring that level of input?!

He was yes 👍🏻

I'm sure the cattle are healthy and well looked after, but I'm not sure I would want to keep cattle like that and look at them everyday in that yard?! Each to their own I guess.

When we lambed ewes I always thought that the lambing part was the easy/straightforward bit. It was all the crap that came after that was a nightmare.

New lad for this year. Replacing an old boy who went last year aged 13 so will be very happy if he lasts anywhere as long. Sired by Maraiscote Olympus.

Steel has come back £150/t, my godfather is having to requote a lot of shed work, for once to the benefit of the purchaser!

Thanks. We do yes, have done the last 3 years or so!

Homebred bulling heifers out.

Well sadly it's up in the hip joint. Very high up so at first the vet nor I could identify a break until the swelling had reduced. I assumed at first it had taken a bad knock but I had the vet back a second time and we realised it's actually a break almost at the hip. But the calf looks very...

Ive never been one to criticise those before me, but I can honestly say that drainage/ditch cleaning has been woefully neglected the last 35/40 years here. I think my grandad did an awful lot but died young and therefore dad managed off the back of that without then doing a huge amount and now...

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I've shot my best calf tonight, tetanus, I wasn't going to just let it die overnight in agony. Jabbed it for days but was going downhill fast. Also found a calf in the yard with a broken leg. Either trodden on or bashed against the wall by a cow. I've also spent all autumn/winter/spring driving...

Been told to expect a lift next week, here's hoping 👍🏻

We've been on with them for the last 6 weeks. Have used them on and off the last 4/5 years. Obviously a hell of a lot cheaper than straw and cattle can stay cleaner on them but in a damp atmosphere they soon turn greasy and it needs topping up regularly. Opposite applies when in a drying/windy...

Hate to say it but it won't do 20t/acre apart from possibly very rare extreme cases. Budget on 9-12t/ac depending on conditions at drilling etc. 20t would be 25 bales/acre @800kg. Just can't see it myself. We had a huge crop of winter oats wholecropped around 38%DM and they did 17t/acre. Can't...

Cows and calves happy to be out