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<blockquote data-quote="Jonp" data-source="post: 7794718" data-attributes="member: 89026"><p>Took on this farm tenancy three years ago. Previous tenant had left it in a poor state..hedge encroachment into fields, rubbish fences, bad field access and lots of soft rushes in poor weedy pp. He only ran sheep.</p><p>Have sorted the above out with more gateways and a chainsaw.</p><p>Now can rotate cattle and sheep round the 7 fields I have easily.</p><p>Year by year the grass has improved in both quality and quantity and soft rushes down by 50%. Put no fertilizer on except what drops out the rear end of animals. Could do with lime but farm access is very difficult over narrow old canal bridge. Suckler cattle always return in calf and look fine/fat.</p><p>Last year the sheep had a poor scanning rate even with concentrate feeding pre and post tupping as they looked under condition in early autumn. Lambing was fine but cost too much in feed.</p><p>This year have really tried hard to manage grass growth by constantly moving flock/herd around especially early in the spring and reducing flock size by 15%. Weaned lambs off much earlier (8-10 weeks), destocked by selling ram lambs asap as stores then followed by unwanted ewe lambs. Ewes are getting no concentrates this year until pre lambing as they are in 100% better condition. They will go off farm on top winter tack after tupping untill 3 weeks pre lambing.</p><p>Hoping scanning will be better this year as a result of better ewe condition pre tupping and that the improved lamb numbers and milk production will boost my income and my feed costs will over half.</p><p>Learnt the hard way that there's no point having loads of sheep and a few cattle if you've got no good grass and spend too much on bought in feed. Looking forward to next year as fields still have a good covering. Cattle are away in the next couple of weeks to winter field. Tups out in a month and sheep will be away too.</p><p>It takes time to get the right stocking rate on a new farm.</p><p>Grass first then stock it accordingly not the other way round.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jonp, post: 7794718, member: 89026"] Took on this farm tenancy three years ago. Previous tenant had left it in a poor state..hedge encroachment into fields, rubbish fences, bad field access and lots of soft rushes in poor weedy pp. He only ran sheep. Have sorted the above out with more gateways and a chainsaw. Now can rotate cattle and sheep round the 7 fields I have easily. Year by year the grass has improved in both quality and quantity and soft rushes down by 50%. Put no fertilizer on except what drops out the rear end of animals. Could do with lime but farm access is very difficult over narrow old canal bridge. Suckler cattle always return in calf and look fine/fat. Last year the sheep had a poor scanning rate even with concentrate feeding pre and post tupping as they looked under condition in early autumn. Lambing was fine but cost too much in feed. This year have really tried hard to manage grass growth by constantly moving flock/herd around especially early in the spring and reducing flock size by 15%. Weaned lambs off much earlier (8-10 weeks), destocked by selling ram lambs asap as stores then followed by unwanted ewe lambs. Ewes are getting no concentrates this year until pre lambing as they are in 100% better condition. They will go off farm on top winter tack after tupping untill 3 weeks pre lambing. Hoping scanning will be better this year as a result of better ewe condition pre tupping and that the improved lamb numbers and milk production will boost my income and my feed costs will over half. Learnt the hard way that there's no point having loads of sheep and a few cattle if you've got no good grass and spend too much on bought in feed. Looking forward to next year as fields still have a good covering. Cattle are away in the next couple of weeks to winter field. Tups out in a month and sheep will be away too. It takes time to get the right stocking rate on a new farm. Grass first then stock it accordingly not the other way round. [/QUOTE]
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