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I'm guessing very short round, closely followed by the fert spinner?

Don't really know what you can do about it other than buffer which is the last thing you want to do. I doubt it will cause massive issues in stale cows.
15 day round with dirty water and 2 units of N a day allowance.
The cows that arnt dried off are pumping.
 
I see Bill Gates has given a bio start up firm (in conjunction with some other funders) £3.5m to develop human breast milk from mammary cells in an effort to reduce “carbon footprint”
Seeing as about 10% of all milk production is turned in to baby formula, this could have a significant impact in the future


I wrote elsewhere, creating factory produced milq (TM) should be a piece of pish compared to growing a steak in a vat.
 
Grown it since we started milking so 7 years it’s a good backup crop.
got nearly 50 acres this year.

Ah so you are an old hand at it and yet still get great crops which can be a rare combination, most people take it for granted after their first crop and it descends into a shower in subsequent years as they don't pay attention to seed beds or spraying. Excellent crop and cleans up the ground lovely.
 

Milkcow365

Member
Location
Sw Scotland
Ah so you are an old hand at it and yet still get great crops which can be a rare combination, most people take it for granted after their first crop and it descends into a shower in subsequent years as they don't pay attention to seed beds or spraying. Excellent crop and cleans up the ground lovely.
Just need to master feeding it I always struggle to get the value out of it
 

pine_guy

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Location
North Cumbria
Steps it is. Wanted some full length ones at the bottom due to the angle out the shed. But need to go shorter now as digger driver worried I’m going to make him dig a cutting through the bank ??

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Walwyn

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Location
West Wales
15 day round with dirty water and 2 units of N a day allowance.
The cows that arnt dried off are pumping.
 
Intresting read.
Not keen to spend money tho.
 

Martyn

Member
Location
South west
Am rearranging a shed and have some 15ft Bateman self locking yoke panels for sale in TFF classifieds if anybody is after some. 7 cows x 8 bays. £400 + vat each.
Not being rude but i would rather have some one tell me, you can buy the Jourdain ones new delivered for £450 a peace, we some recently, think you may be a tad over priced.
 

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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