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  1. Jerry

    Headed grass- mgt options

    I’ve a bit of stalky rye grass. Dried off ewes on it which worked well for them and they learnt to eat the seed heads. We’ve now had 46mm of rain in last 11 days which is a bit of a shock to the system for us in a dry bit of Devon. It’s flushing up green in the base of the crop now and...
  2. C

    Improving grazing quality

    Iv recently taken on a 3 acre field with poor grazing quality and a lot of it consists of fern.any tips to improve the quality of grazing? Sorry if it sounds a stupid question.im a newbie
  3. Kidds

    What size plough?

    I want a reversible plough for my Case Farmall 95A, what size would it pull? My land is mostly level, reasonably light but lots of stones. The stones are river cobble type of things. I have a 4 furrow Rabe with slatted boards, the tractor struggles to lift it but I feel that is a tractor issue...
  4. A

    12 Neglected Acres - Horse Grazing ?

    My father died and has left 12Ac of land which was supposedly "managed" by a local farmer Now it has 10m wide hedges and a thick thatch etc I've seen that horsey types are renting £1,200/year/Ac. Presumably with a stable, decent fencing etc I've stuck an ad up to see what interest there is...
  5. TFF

    Fifty years of nurturing nature

    SFT CEO Patrick Holden and his wife Becky Holden farm 300 acres in West Wales and produce a raw milk cheddar called Hafod with the milk from their herd of Ayrshire cows. Here, Becky reflects on the thriving biodiversity on their hill farm and the interconnectedness of the farm and nature. This...
  6. D

    Groundswelms

    02.20 onwards That's why ELMS is a sh!tfest. Not because of the Goldsmiths, or Carrie, or Packham, or the Moonbat, or Craig Bennett, or Tony Juniper. Because of farmers putting it into the head of @Janet Hughes Defra that there are 'good' and 'bad' ways of farming. That's why countless...
  7. K

    Wet stock damaged paddocks

    Hi, we are farming in Victoria, Southeastern Australia. Primarily growing grass to feed beef cattle. Currently, we are having a very wet winter, which is leaving paddocks very wet, and due to grazing cattle, my paddocks are being damaged or pugged with hoof prints. Our paddocks are very flat...
  8. T

    Plantain in herbal leys - pest?

    We planted some herbal leys 2 years ago....like a lot 👍 I was keener on plantain than chicory as I think it will survive shorter rotations with sheep better....plantain had been looking very healthy this March...then spotted a lot of holes appearing across the plantain leaves, looking similar...
  9. cowboysupper

    Short term ley

    We're likely to start lifting wholecrop within the next ten days, which is about 3 weeks earlier than normal due to the very dry weather here over the last few weeks. We'll be sowing hybrid rye in late Sept/early October but it seems a bit of a waste to lave the field bare for 3 months. Any...
  10. TFF

    Red clover: Availing of the benefits on beef farms 2023-06-23

    As chemical fertiliser prices reached new highs last year, many beef farmers looked at ways of reducing the amount of fertiliser that they applied on their farms. In this article, DairyBeef 500 Advisor Fergal Maguire highlights the benefits of red clover. Since early 2022, interest in red...
  11. Grass And Grain

    SFI: Winter bird food on improved grassland

    £474/ha. Leave to go to seed and leave over winter. Only on improved grassland. Slippers on, feet up, move to south of France. As per the poll,would you use this option? I worry DEFRA don't realise how their subsidy schemes will affect some people and their businesses. I suspect the days of...
  12. topground

    Life after BPS producing food from cattle and sheep.

    BPS nearly gone, SFI announced today not worth the aggravation on an all grass farm. what’s the plan going forward for those of us producing food from cattle and sheep? Mine is to reduce spending to an absolute minimum which won’t do the local economy particularly support industries already in...
  13. Derrick Hughes

    Stubble Turnips

    5 days and up Amazing what a bit of rain does The stones arnt as bad as they look
  14. Janet Hughes Defra

    Sustainable farming incentive - handbook for 2023 has been published

    Afternoon all, Today we've published a handbook containing all the detailed information about the sustainable farming incentive offer for this year. The handbook is here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sfi-handbook-for-the-sfi-2023-offer An overview blogpost is here...
  15. M

    Set a side grass, what to do ?

    Friend has taken on 15 acres of cr-p grassland, not cropped last year. This year it is just a mess of weeds with a lot of docks and big lot of ragwort. Wants to clear ground, possibly put in a fodder crop for a break and then reseed but what to do with what’s there ???????
  16. Clive

    Livestock SFI - what would you like to see ?

    So it’s clear from many other threads that SFI seemingly offers very little or nothing that’s attractive to livestock / grassland so what do you want ? Use this thread to outline your own livestock / grassland SFI standard that both delivers public goods and natural capital for tax payers...
  17. BeReyt

    What Motivates You?

    This is aimed at all working in the industry really, owners, tenants and staff. What motivates you to keep going when morale is low? I find myself on a cycle of very high moods to very low moods. Sometimes that can vary within the day or it can be weeks of high then weeks of low. As...
  18. D

    Wireworms in grass reseeds

    Hi I'm new to this and looking for advice. We try and reseed a field every year, usually after 1st cut we roundup the regrowth and direct drill the seed. The seeds look good at 2 weeks then as the 3rd leaf opens up it all seems to disappear as fast as it came. Our seed rep came and said...
  19. W

    1st cut silage price

    Hi all, We have been renting some ground for the past 5 years which the farmer now wants back. We reseeded it all 2 years ago. We were aloud to have 1st cut off it before he took it back in hand. But just wondering what we should be paying per acre just for the 1st cut considering we reseeded it...
  20. IOW91

    Haymaking 2023

    I know it's very early still, but looks like my neighbour is making a bit of hay on a small field that he lets people camp on. Couple of others seem to be underway with haylage. I've just been and mowed 8 acres that is going to be haylage for a chap this evening. It will be at least 10...
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