All things Dairy

[jimmer]

What are most people using to put out temp. electric fence polywire? Just by hand with geared reel? Or from the quad bike?

Got some 300m long strip grazed breaks, gets a but tedious with the walking for 2 breaks a day... #lazy

 

[vantage]

Guess it’s less to carry, but a faff if it jams.

 

[jimmer]

Guess it’s less to carry, but a faff if it jams.

Game changer since I was sent that video
Only jams if too knotty and reeled up by a muppet

 

[jimmer]

If your fussy and like straight lines then the only quick way is a reel at both ends but I've never had a cow complain about a wonky fence

 

[Wesley]

Work smart not hard...get someone else to do it while you stand by & watch/film. Seems a good idea to me

 

[jimmer]

Work smart not hard...get someone else to do it while you stand by & watch/film. Seems a good idea to me

Ha ha, not my video
Would be a 7 Yr old pulling wire of I was filming

 

[farmboy]

Humbolt forage rye being mowed today to start the 2022 forage campaign

Hell of a crop. How does rye normally analyse?

 

[Beef farmer]

Hell of a crop. How does rye normally analyse?

@som farmer

 

[som farmer]

@som farmer

don't know, don't ask, outside of normal parameters, 10 samples, no sensible results, and i'm not happy.

 

[crashbox]

Why is grass unpalatable?


That works out at 50kg

Would like to achieve tighter residuals, soil samples also showing low sodium.

Would probably help if I wasn't catching up after a growy winter (going into pretty strong covers...)

 

[Homesy]

don't know, don't ask, outside of normal parameters, 10 samples, no sensible results, and i'm not happy.

Is there any milk in it ?
Cows can't read the analysis so why worry.

 

[som farmer]

Is there any milk in it ?
Cows can't read the analysis so why worry.

protein, high to low 4% to 48%, starch energy all over the place.
what l can say, cows like it, and at 30% of TMR, if it was crap, they wouldn't milk well, they are milking well.
Bulling hfrs, were getting to fat, with maize and blend, so they didn't go backwards, when on rye/vetch alone. Younger hfrs have grown very well, on it, but maize and blend, as well. So to be honest, it feeds well.
We are thinking about replacing h/rye, with w/wolds, the timing to get it in, between maize, is rather tight, and the maize last autumn, didn't ripen early enough, so w/wheat instead.

 

[Headless chicken]

Hell of a crop. How does rye normally analyse?

Earlier samples suggested it was much closer to 11.6 me and the cows would agree. Certainly noticed it when we ran out

 

[som farmer]

Earlier samples suggested it was much closer to 11.6 me and the cows would agree. Certainly noticed it when we ran out

and yet we couldn't get a meaningful analysis. While l didn't like not getting one, l can see the reason, a sample is only a fraction of the pit, and only a fraction of that sample is actually tested, and we know, the stem to ear ratio is very high, so a more stem, test, will produce a low reading, but the opposite, for more ear. So not really sure any of previous years analysis's were correct, they certainly varied as we went back through the pit.
But like you, it has fed well, and that's about all l can say.

 

[crashbox]

and yet we couldn't get a meaningful analysis. While l didn't like not getting one, l can see the reason, a sample is only a fraction of the pit, and only a fraction of that sample is actually tested, and we know, the stem to ear ratio is very high, so a more stem, test, will produce a low reading, but the opposite, for more ear. So not really sure any of previous years analysis's were correct, they certainly varied as we went back through the pit.
But like you, it has fed well, and that's about all l can say.

Would it not be the same as analysing wholecrop? (Never grown it, only maize and grass for ensiling here)

 

[som farmer]

Would it not be the same as analysing wholecrop? (Never grown it, only maize and grass for ensiling here)

never not had a test, not come back'
2020 as w/crop, 26 starch, but wasn't impressed
as silage-green, impressed.

 

[Wesley]

Finally getting somewhere, now just a ridiculous wait for a meter to be fitted.

 

[Mr Jones]

How are the Gilwen cows selling?

 

[pine_guy]

That won’t help growith…….

munching it off reasonably well

goo too it girls

 

[Headless chicken]

How are the Gilwen cows selling?

Some look pretty cheap. Not the flying sale I’d expect from the stock I expect they are