All things Dairy

sidjon

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EXMOOR
DEFRA state;

"make sure the sward has a minimum 10% cover of red clover"

"make sure the sward has an additional minimum 10% cover of other legumes, herbs and wildflowers (not counting white clover, creeping buttercup or injurious weeds)"
Next-door have put in herbal with grant money, had lots of different things in the seed bag, but two years later it's ryegrass, cocksfoot and white clover, he hopes nobody comes to inspect it 🤔
 

Great In Grass

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Cornwall.
Next-door have put in herbal with grant money, had lots of different things in the seed bag, but two years later it's ryegrass, cocksfoot and white clover, he hopes nobody comes to inspect it 🤔
That will happen with a Herbal Ley with the more dominant species gaining a foothold & pushing the weaker species out.

I suppose if he has all the relevant documentation invoices etcetera he will be fine. We've yet to be able to control what grows & what doesn't! 🙂
 
l see that barbers are asking their suppliers, to keep milk out of the tank, for imported cows, till they have been on farm, for 90 days, to meet EU import regs.
So you buy a cow from EU country, but can only sell back to the EU, if it has been on farm, for 90 days, or if followed through, any processor, exporting to the EU, cannot accept milk from that cow, until the 90 days, unless they can prove it is not included in any exported product.
Old news
 

Jdunn55

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Next-door have put in herbal with grant money, had lots of different things in the seed bag, but two years later it's ryegrass, cocksfoot and white clover, he hopes nobody comes to inspect it 🤔
How has he managed that? Don't let dad know he's been trying to kill my gs4 since it was planted in 2018, hasn't managed yet despite his best efforts 🙃😂
 

Martyn

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South west
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Moving stock onto new seeds, grass growing like mad here. Happy friend always enjoys some work. Dry week ahead, let's hope by this time next week winter cereals will be in.
 

Jdunn55

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Low PH, organic, grazed very lightly and no FYM , all farmed with grant money in mind.
Ah that'll be how I stopped dad from killing mine then 😂 I made sure pH was right first, then imported slurry with sand in the following year bringing it closer to 7 than 6.5 and it gets 2 doses of fym each year to keep everything happy
 

Jdunn55

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Mine are learning to graze quickly in prep for proper winter grazing, want to try the on off grazing strategy but that means they have to graze fast!

Currently out all day with no access to silage, milk again in the evening and then they can wonder out to grazing and then I put silage in after washdown when they wonder back in, and tend to stay in overnight then rather than bother to walk back out to the field

seems to be working fairly well, would like a few more litres if truth is know
currently doing 14-15litres at 5% fat and 3.6% protein, 210 days in milk average and 2kg 16% protein cake
Am about to kick them out now to graze 2 road crossing to do tonight🙄 my fat Goonhilly! She had a lovely limi bull unassisted, giving 38l already. View attachment 990169View attachment 990170
 

Martyn

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South west
Mine are learning to graze quickly in prep for proper winter grazing, want to try the on off grazing strategy but that means they have to graze fast!

Currently out all day with no access to silage, milk again in the evening and then they can wonder out to grazing and then I put silage in after washdown when they wonder back in, and tend to stay in overnight then rather than bother to walk back out to the field

seems to be working fairly well, would like a few more litres if truth is know
currently doing 14-15litres at 5% fat and 3.6% protein, 210 days in milk average and 2kg 16% protein cake
Sounds good, just remember an extra few litres will cost and probably drop your fat, which would leave you no better financialy I would think as roddas pay for fat.
 

Jdunn55

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not sure that’s true.
currently doing 19 litres at 5.4 fat
Off of 4 kgs
Similar if not slightly more days in milk.
That is good going, only thing I will say is I have 15-20 cows who haven't calved since last autumn as they were being moved to spring calving and they really throw the average out, Friesians really don't like milking over 300 days, they get bloody lazy and fat (aka big-in-calf-bertha)

Also 45% of my herd are heifers
 

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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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