Balmesh silage video 2022.

Some small number of herds are housed all year round. Some herds are just too large to be sent out to graze. These are usually ‘storage fed’ which means that all their forage is conserved and uniform in quality. No waste from soiled grazing and no cows standing in the freezing rain and not eating or cudding.
Their choice. They can generally achieve very high stocking rates and milk yields although the nutters amongst us and the public are trying to demonise this for their own peculiar and sometimes nefarious reasons. There is certainly an issue with complying with NVZ’s with this system unless the farm also has a substantial arable area.
I understand the system, I was just curious about if 6 cuts of grass clippings still made sense over 3 good cuts and if the extra feed value made up for driving over the acres for less grass per cut.

Some guys up here have gone from 4 or 5 cuts back to 3 because the first and last cut weren't worth the hassle and the bit of fibre and body in the grass is making the diet easier to make stable with less need for chopped straw without a great deal of compromise.

I don't have any real opinion on the matter, I'm just curious.
 

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I understand the system, I was just curious about if 6 cuts of grass clippings still made sense over 3 good cuts and if the extra feed value made up for driving over the acres for less grass per cut.

Some guys up here have gone from 4 or 5 cuts back to 3 because the first and last cut weren't worth the hassle and the bit of fibre and body in the grass is making the diet easier to make stable with less need for chopped straw without a great deal of compromise.

I don't have any real opinion on the matter, I'm just curious.
One of my dairy mates has gone back too 3 cuts now. Last cut in mid august. He reckoned he was having too chop and add far too much straw or dry haylage too bulk the fibre in the 4th cut out for it too be viable.
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


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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