JMTHORNLEY
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Wondering if any of you gurus out there can help me with this....?
Looking to reseed a 20 acre plot, we make hayledge first cut and silage thereafter. The issue I have is we make the haylege for a horse yard and they like the older grass, but being a very small outfit it's my only source or mowing ground and is locked up pretty much all summer growing so I can't take any more land and reseed that for some better silage fodder. The horse yard pretty much pays for my silage production so getting rid of them is a no go. I want to seed in a good quality ryegrass mixture that will benefit the cattle well but also want to keep the horse girls happy and not kill them all stone dead or end up giving them laminitis.
I need the whole crop of the 20 acre for the cattle so can't do half and half split as I'd like to mow all at once as the old ley that's here is pretty slow growing in spring.
I graze it with cattle at back end, muck it, then sheep right the way through until March then lock it up. Can anybody give me an idea of what I could reseed with or a way to make it suitable for both outfits?
Just limed all the ground so PH are all correct
Cheers all
Looking to reseed a 20 acre plot, we make hayledge first cut and silage thereafter. The issue I have is we make the haylege for a horse yard and they like the older grass, but being a very small outfit it's my only source or mowing ground and is locked up pretty much all summer growing so I can't take any more land and reseed that for some better silage fodder. The horse yard pretty much pays for my silage production so getting rid of them is a no go. I want to seed in a good quality ryegrass mixture that will benefit the cattle well but also want to keep the horse girls happy and not kill them all stone dead or end up giving them laminitis.
I need the whole crop of the 20 acre for the cattle so can't do half and half split as I'd like to mow all at once as the old ley that's here is pretty slow growing in spring.
I graze it with cattle at back end, muck it, then sheep right the way through until March then lock it up. Can anybody give me an idea of what I could reseed with or a way to make it suitable for both outfits?
Just limed all the ground so PH are all correct
Cheers all