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Big_D

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Location
S W Scotland
What does a Belted Galloway calf out of an Ayrshire look like when it gets bigger?

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This is out a Holstein, served it to Angus few days ago
 

Martyn

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Location
South west
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New red clover reseed, lot of weed come up but will clear once cut, crop has stopped growing after near 6/7 weeks of no rain, weeds going woody, would you cut now or leave for rain, afraid of lots of hard woody weed in silage leading to endless clean out of troughs in the winter, have 40/50 acre like above.
 

pappuller

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Livestock Farmer
Location
M6 Hard shoulder
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New red clover reseed, lot of weed come up but will clear once cut, crop has stopped growing after near 6/7 weeks of no rain, weeds going woody, would you cut now or leave for rain, afraid of lots of hard woody weed in silage leading to endless clean out of troughs in the winter, have 40/50 acre like above.
Youll have woody weed if you leave it for another 6 or 7 weeks, might as well clean it now while youve got the weather.
 

Rossymons

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Cornwall
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New red clover reseed, lot of weed come up but will clear once cut, crop has stopped growing after near 6/7 weeks of no rain, weeds going woody, would you cut now or leave for rain, afraid of lots of hard woody weed in silage leading to endless clean out of troughs in the winter, have 40/50 acre like above.

I'd take it. Weed problem will only get worse in dry, hot arid conditions plus you'll lose quality of the silage.
 

Martyn

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Location
South west
I'd take it. Weed problem will only get worse in dry, hot arid conditions plus you'll lose quality of the silage.


Thats my gut feeling too, we have had a lot of wind as well as dry and news seeds have struggeled, we were lucky to get them in over 36 hours of dry in Mid April, couple of weeks later and this weather would of finnished them.
 

Rossymons

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Location
Cornwall
Thats my gut feeling too, we have had a lot of wind as well as dry and news seeds have struggeled, we were lucky to get them in over 36 hours of dry in Mid April, couple of weeks later and this weather would of finnished them.

Sounds like us. I planted 20acres of grass this spring that I was hoping to silage. But growth has slowed so I think I'll graze it instead and save the cost of silaging it.

Either way I wouldn't want to leave it.
 

Agrispeed

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Location
Cornwall
Proper cow :whistle: 20L+ off grass, milked OAD(y)
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Grass growth has slowed down massively here in the last week. For better or worse I decided to cut 1/5 of the grazing block as silage yesterday evening & baled this morning
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Arable silage doing well, getting on for waist high. Should be a reasonable crop in a couple of weeks, which is lucky as our (late) second cut doesn't look that special and is starting to head at about 6" tall :unsure:
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SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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