Written by Brian McDonnell from Agriland
Although there are still many cows in the shed, and grazing has not fully taken off yet, it’s now time for silage preparation to begin.
The harvesting of first cut silage will hopefully be taking place on most farms in early to mid-May if conditions...
Id like to build a new silage pit, away from the main stedding to allow the farm to grow.
It would be 180'x60'x30'
Roughly where that line is.
I have tried to follow the rules but theyre not easy, the road to the left is not classified, but ibelieve the bottom on is, so id have to stay 25m...
I farm heavy silty clay with flints. No ditches, no land drains. Good strong wheat land, if unforgiving.
I've been trying to grow cover crops on and off for the last 9 yrs. With one exception, they have all been disastrous.
Summer cover crops in place of a spring crop, on the other hand, can...
Thinking of using feed blocks to feed ewes with lambs on turn out usually feed concentrates for month after lambing but land is so wet has anyone done this will ewes still milk ok they will be on good grass.
Due to being so wet we housed all fat lambs and there now all gone off cake probably got about 15 acres of very big roots for ewes left. They are due in a month and I've got lifeline buckets out for them, is there anything I need to be watching grazing this? I could vit drench them tomorrow...
got some to sort out for sheep feeding....cant afford to buy a bucket and Just thinking/ looking for ideas on how to make one from the scrap pile :unsure:.........
I have a small 3 acre meadow/pasture which could do with ploughing down, i did a similar field right next to it a few years ago August time. Only problem was at the time it was quite dry and these fields are a little spongy/mossy on top so never made a great job of ploughing and it went straight...
Hi, just to start off i wanna make it clear that i am absolutely clueless about keeping cattle. I also have no clue if this is in the right forum lol
So i absolutely love cows and bulls, and i desperately want to own one. There are many problems with that though, as i don't own any land, don't...
I'm looking to buy a place with about 20 acres in the future so only asking out of interest at present but what paddock size and stock numbers are suggested for a rotational grazing system of this size? And how is (a Scottish) winter factored in? Or any resources for working on a smaller scale...
Tempted to try a pure stand of chicory rather than turnips or kale/rape treat it as a break crop and full reseed in autumn
Dry field several access points
Thoughts?
Firstly, sorry I keep disappearing on here without replying, particularly to those who have sent messages, I do appreciate it, Im just not up to speaking to anyone at the moment, I will get back to you at some point but it may take a while, sorry
Anyway, everyone around me is pushing for me to...
Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland
The Environment Agency has launched a campaign to highlight the risks of growing high-risk crops in the south west of England.
The agency said the high-risk crops, which include maize, fodder beet and potatoes, can lead to pollution and flooding...
As the title suggest considering going down this route with the cattle.
Mega simple system, no breeding stock, one stock class. 12 month old bought in 400kgish animals, groups of 40 grazed from March to November on good free draining ground. Fresh cell every day, grazing herbal lays, no corn...
Not wanting to depress folk but another one or two big rains and looking around a lot of spring stuff won’t be going in , Europe in pjaves can’t be much different , fert and chemicals not gone on on a lot of winter crops and gone backwards in places , what’s folks farms looking like and what’s...
Evening all,
Looking into feeding and growing fodder beet. Will be wanting to grow the highest DM variety as possible. Couple of questions
How long will it keep in a pile in a shed ?
How late can i leave it in the ground ?
Does a fodder beet frost sheet help a lot ?
Many thanks
As I finish off hedging for customers I found myself getting really depressed looking at all this cs and sfi sh!t. Once fields I mowed and baled in some fallow weeds. Fields I fert spread the arable on either fallow stubble or bird seed. The whole lot looks unloved.
Then onto hedges. Got most...
Looking at doing some herbal lay for silage.
to replace grass silage. How many cuts of silage would I expect to get and what tonnage would I get and is it good to fatten cattle
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