Early grazers dont, but some mid may turn out chap last year gave me ruptions for it, cows didn't die and still all calved okay tho.
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Cowski
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Frozen grass no problem, frozen crop (rape, kale etc) not great
Martyn
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How tall is your rye and when did you drill, we have some but not sure if it's tall enough to graze yet, lot further on than last year
lazy farmer
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Nice drop of rain here. Very pleased
Gonna be best part of 30mm in 24 hours. Help freshen the job up, and wash some slurry off the leaves
Cowski
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Cows back in?
Yep, not prepared to make a mess when there is no need so early on. About 50% through silage stocks
frederick
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How much have you hit your grazing cover in the last fortnight?
Not enough to worry as it's still growing, 60 day round, if they had stayed out from Jan 2nd or would have got interesting tho, but if they stay in now for a few weeks you'll hardly know weve been out
Cowski
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Sounds like you need more cows!
Martyn
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Wish I had 50% silage stocks left!!
Cowski
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That’s what I was thinking!
More to life
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50% of not much is well not much
Martyn
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Our cows are milking the best they ever have, other than a few crap Friesians, I think the extra 4 weeks being dry with draught has helped, but they have also eaten grub faster than Iv ever known, out grassing every dry day, saving 2 bales a day, am back fencing, am hopeing rye corn will save us it's look super but if wet won't get on it till March.
Lets see some pics then - It's my first year growing Rye and I must say it does look well, but I've never seen any before. Mine seems have gone a bit flat in places, but the buggers will be licking it off the floor.
Martyn
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Will take some tomorrow, my secound year growing it, never used fert, our feed rep said its no good for dairy cows but good for Youngstock, our dairy tanker tickets tell a very different story, we went over it 3 times befor reploughing it.
When did you plough it out? More growth than a westerwold?
Martyn
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the rye kept growing very well in the draught even when grass had long stopped and red clover was slowing, we Direct drilled aug/sept put rape in, grazed and reddrilled rye early November.
So only grazed it 3 times between feb and Aug?