All things Dairy

[Beef farmer]

Looks like the golf course has a couple feeds on it

There is acres of standing hay there waiting for dry cows

 

[pappuller]

Looking at the size of it I don't think it would be big enough...

no quite agree, a nylon bush would do the trick

 

[Ducati899]

We've had an inch of rain in last 24hrs.Can only watch it grow !Some grass is going over never seen it so forward at this time of year.That's with no fert.

we've not seen grass like it here for this time of year with no fert,just a shame i cant get near it..only the silage ground will be having any fert put on for the first dose,rest will just be grazed when we can get on it

 

[Headless chicken]

we've not seen grass like it here for this time of year with no fert,just a shame i cant get near it..only the silage ground will be having any fert put on for the first dose,rest will just be grazed when we can get on it

Could it not all have a dose and then anything not grazeable cut and have a smaller Second cut?

 

[Ducati899]

all silage is new leys,4 or 5 cuts so no pastures go in clamp,pastures all grazed apart from meadows which go for hay..had it before when theres some nice young grass in the pastures which I've stuck fert on when i can finally travel and it just hasn't dried out enough under foot and won't do unless you cut it and it never makes good stuff so we are deciding to save fert this year,rightly or wrongly who knows

 

[Ducati899]

Grazing ground is a tad wet in places

One of the new leys today,the driest field of them all!! Be a week or more before I can travel with the spinner

 

[kill]

Grazing ground is a tad wet in places View attachment 489846

One of the new leys today,the driest field of them all!! Be a week or more before I can travel with the spinner View attachment 489848

Bugger. That looks damp

 

[Beef farmer]

Grazing ground is a tad wet in places View attachment 489846

One of the new leys today,the driest field of them all!! Be a week or more before I can travel with the spinner View attachment 489848

Getton, few concrete sleepers your be grand.

 

[kill]

Getton, few concrete sleepers your be grand.

Hover craft more like

 

[Ducati899]

Getton, few concrete sleepers your be grand.

funny you mention concrete sleepers,i laid two across across my sleeper bridge after getting fed up with the railway sleepers disappearing down stream when it floods,last check the concrete and wooden ones are down the other end of farm caught up in tree on the river bank

 

[Beef farmer]

funny you mention concrete sleepers,i laid two across across my sleeper bridge after getting fed up with the railway sleepers disappearing down stream when it floods,last check the concrete and wooden ones are down the other end of farm caught up in tree on the river bank

Fair flow then, sure you haven't a water leak..

 

[Ducati899]

Nope apparently not [emoji6]

 

[Bossfarmer]

An article in the Scottish farmer about a girl with 70 fresian cows on 180 acres and claims to have made 50k net profit last year on an average milk contract, is this realistic????

 

[TheRanger]

An article in the Scottish farmer about a girl with 70 fresian cows on 180 acres and claims to have made 50k net profit last year on an average milk contract, is this realistic????

Tesco contract

 

[Cows 'n grass]

An article in the Scottish farmer about a girl with 70 fresian cows on 180 acres and claims to have made 50k net profit last year on an average milk contract, is this realistic????

No.

 

[Agrispeed]

Possibly if organic.

 

[Beef farmer]

An article in the Scottish farmer about a girl with 70 fresian cows on 180 acres and claims to have made 50k net profit last year on an average milk contract, is this realistic????

Yes. Is she keeping all calves till fat? Lot of acres for number of cows

 

[Agrispeed]

Yes. Is she keeping all calves till fat? Lot of acres for number of cows

Thats why I wondered about organic.

Had a cow get herself stuck against a pillar and wall last night, and has gangrenous mastitis. nasty Hopefully she's still alive tomorrow. Bloody things.

 

[dinderleat]

An article in the Scottish farmer about a girl with 70 fresian cows on 180 acres and claims to have made 50k net profit last year on an average milk contract, is this realistic????

Why not

 

[Bossfarmer]

Yes. Is she keeping all calves till fat? Lot of acres for number of cows

No just a small number kept beyond 6 weeks and sold as yearlings
http://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/..._Friesians_more_than_pay_their_way/?ref=fbshr