Cowski
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- Location
- South West
What grows well on your soil? We have acid sand and chicory, plantain and yarrow are happy although I can’t get that excited by yarrow yet
East england dairy farming
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Cowski
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- Location
- South West
On a cost basis?
Yep would be great to have a simple key showing how tolerant different plants are to acid vs alkali conditions... But that would be too easy!We did the same as part of a trial by duchy college, they basically shoved a huge quantity of stuff in a key and saw what grew and what didnt, lucerne did well surprisingly, sainfoin however didnt grow, it's a shame as according to what cotswolds seeds says about it on their website its better than grass
Maize copes comparatively well.
Never grown Lucerne but heard that's a no go on acid. First time sowing chicory and plantain last year, chicory took very well. Plantain not so much by still think it'll be good.
Not interested in yarrow at all!
Burnet I also tried in a herbal ley, waiting to see results.
Don't use brassicas very often but watched a webinar with a fella who pit 0.5kg fodder radish with a grass reseed as a nurse crop, looked amazing crop, said he'd step it back to just 0.25kg if he did it again.
- Location
- Huntingdon
if you've got irrigation facility surely veg or spuds would be a better use of land?
cattow
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- Location
- Leicestershire J11 M42
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
Would that have been the former coop dairy unit ?
rusty
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- Location
- Buxton Derbyshire
It's not the one Evolution Farming have as they have 2 parlours side by side.
I notice there is no mention of a milk contract.
cattow
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- Location
- Leicestershire J11 M42
No
There is a farm south of Leicester that fits the description but wouldn’t like to say for definite
harrysmith
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says who in the farmers guardian
harrysmith
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knapton hall farm
cattow
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- Location
- Leicestershire J11 M42
Former BOCM farm Knaptoft
Princess Pooper
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- Location
- East Mids
cattow
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- Location
- Leicestershire J11 M42
It was Tesco
kiwi pom
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- Location
- canterbury NZ
Why?
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Knaptoft is hardly the East of England if that's the one in Husbands Bosworth. More like East Midlands
New micro dairy milking jerseys in a bail made out of a shipping container just started in the next village here @Exfarmer
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
Dairying seems to make sense in East Anglia apart from seasonal lower rainfall than the SW.
Will cows graze lucerne, is it a good feed for them?
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Will cows graze lucerne, is it a good feed for them?
BB
There is a grazing Lucerne called luzelle, but you wouldn't graze a pure stand, and they don't like it that much. We haven't found it that drought tolerant either. Like most drought tolerant things, like cocksfoot, they don't die as much as ryegrass for instance, but there's not a lot of feed either. I dare say that's because I'm managing it all wrong and one of the holistic grazing crowd will have to use a string of headbanging emojis about this.
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
That’s interesting regarding drought tolerance. I have a neighbour that has grown 15 ha of Lucerne for cutting in the same field for the last 6 - 7 years. It seems to be the only thing that stays green around here when everything else burns off. It is looking a bit thin now though so guess it needs reseeding every 5 years?
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