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Martyn

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South west
Iv made a cock up drilling, and have now broadcast seed over the top of what iv drilled, some small amount of rape has shown first leaves from what was drilled, will I damage it if I rolled what's been broadcast on top or should I now leave we alone and home for the best.
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In the pit

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Pembrokeshire
To be grazing a 2800 cover would need 17 day round. Which leads to buffer feeding very shortly after.
I find my clay needs some worm food else I'm poaching after half inch of rain in the autumn and it sits waterlogged for rest of winter. 🤢
Why would I buffer ,alot of people need to wake up ,we’re in the middle of may not august .you’re all looking at feeding for a drought rather than looking at what’s in front of you
Everybody looking at drought conditions for grazing and then cutting silage everywhere
This year is mirroring last year and there was plenty of grub about
70 growth and will be a 100 next week after 2 days steady rain ,plenty of slurry still to be washed in and fert on there
Perfect grazing weather
 
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In the pit

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Livestock Farmer
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Pembrokeshire
Why would I buffer ,alot of people need to wake up ,we’re in the middle of may not august .you’re all looking at feeding for a drought rather than looking at what’s in front of you
Everybody looking at drought conditions for grazing and then cutting silage everywhere
This year is mirroring last year and there was plenty of grub about I’m growing at 70 a day ,last week 70 and probaly going to be 100 next week
 

In the pit

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Pembrokeshire
MEMBER: 14/05/2022, LABEL = 092, FAT = 4.20, PROTEIN = 3.73, SCC = 139,
, BACTOSCAN = 25, UREA = 0.025, FPD = 521, CASEIN = 2.980, ANTIBIOTIC = Pass

butterfat back up to where it was and protein still up
 

sidjon

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EXMOOR
Iv made a cock up drilling, and have now broadcast seed over the top of what iv drilled, some small amount of rape has shown first leaves from what was drilled, will I damage it if I rolled what's been broadcast on top or should I now leave we alone and home for the best. View attachment 1036569
Just leave it , we find rape will germinate on concrete without any bother and there rain in forecast
 

crashbox

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Livestock Farmer
Why would I buffer ,alot of people need to wake up ,we’re in the middle of may not august .you’re all looking at feeding for a drought rather than looking at what’s in front of you
Everybody looking at drought conditions for grazing and then cutting silage everywhere
This year is mirroring last year and there was plenty of grub about
70 growth and will be a 100 next week after 2 days steady rain ,plenty of slurry still to be washed in and fert on there
Perfect grazing weather
Got to buffer if you don't have the acres next to the dairy.
 

Green Grass

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Location
Cornwall
30+ years of grazing management and I do get it right every now and again
So do the weather forecasters.

No I didn't say you would be buffer feeding if you kept feeding 2800. Its how you manage the excess.

But for less experienced graziers looking at their wedge tomorrow and think ill bale everything above 2800. Then it rains for week before that decision get actioned, they can soon run into large defiect come mid June.
 

crashbox

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Livestock Farmer
Grazing 3950s or 2800s
2800s don't work here, we graze 3300+ because if the looming drought we built covers to hold more feed on farm, now its rained we need to correct that, plenty of 4000 covers to chop off. If it hadn't rained, those 4000 covers would have still been decent feed for some fat autumns
Beefy you reckon autumn block can be as profitable as spring?
 

Wesley

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That stocking rate will be higher than most on here
I don’t think I’ve ever known a time we were below that. But it became too much of a headache trying to get it right on the bad years. Which is why we started off by leaving the gates open to the cubicles & feeders at night which soon led to keeping them in at night. I take my hat off to any grazers on limited acres.
 

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