lazy farmer
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The understanding around sequestration is improving all the time. Plus currently there is no real penalties for constant ploughing
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More to life
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my understanding is there isn't much to be gained from sequestration as soils have a natural carbon limit and most dairy pasture is already there. The ploughing piont I totally accept but it's applicable to all production systems.
The carbon footprint of concentrate feeding is also barely acknowledged in a lot of them.
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As I say this is a fascinating subject.
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Moving the goalposts ?
Price is underpinned by demand from AD.
I agree , but I was under the impression that the soya meal was what is left after the oil is extracted.
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What a let down you are
, we set switch off at 5°c and switch on at 5.5 milk needs to be below 6 for our dairy.- Location
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true, but, the consumer, or at least those, who are interested, is told soya farming, is cutting down the Amazon rain forests etc etc etc, and to bring it 1,000's of miles to here, is awful.
Those facts are only partially true, but the retailers react to public opinion, and the minority, seem to have the loudest voices. Presumably, as we feed it to stock, there are human foods that can utilise it. Palm oil, by the same reasoning, cuts down the orang-utan's forest homes, so to the vocal few, it is terrible. Then the carbon footprint, of freighting it here ..........
And perhaps it really is 'bad' to import it for animal feed, when with rising food prices, it could be made use of, in a better way.
As soon as something becomes controversial, truth goes out the window, they who shout the loudest, usually win.
From a business view, our processor wants us to reduce, or stop feeding soya, because his customers are telling him, what they want.
The feeding of animals with grain, is seen by many as 'bad', just as they believe farting cows, are destroying the world, as well as many livestock types of farming, because those green zealots, have a better constructive case, even if untrue, and a louder voice, than us. Perhaps its better we do find more 'acceptable' proteins to feed to stock, l don't know.
pine_guy
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Legal requirement is 4.5 I believe. Ours will collect below 6 for one plant and below 5 for another. Neither of them Arla plantsWhat a let down you are
problem is you never know where it’s going to go so just cool to 4.5. But no lower, electric is dear.Jdunn55
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4.5 if you're on every other day collection, below 6 if you're on dailyLegal requirement is 4.5 I believe. Ours will collect below 6 for one plant and below 5 for another. Neither of them Arla plants
Princess Pooper
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Can we go back to having mainly photos in this picture thread please and start a new thread for detailed discussions? A lot of these discussions aren't even prompted by a photo they are just cos someone is too lazy to start their own thread!
I like the Q and A, would be a million new threads about silage/weather/milk quality/everything else...
Jdunn55
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Princess Pooper
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It's always been a picture thread (look at first ever post). There are inevitably some Qs relating directly to the pictures, which is fine.
It's easy enough to search to see if there is already a thread running on a general discussion topic and revive it - or just start a new one. Using your argument why just not have one thread in the entire dairy section?
It's also a lot easier to find an earlier discussion on a specific topic if it has its own thread! E.g. milk collection temperatures.
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Jdunn55
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Same here, had to abondon grazing this field last weekend, going to have to cut it for silage now
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Teach me too have a week offSame here, had to abondon grazing this field last weekend, going to have to cut it for silage now
