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Their going to have your pants down with a few of them! 25kg could be £2 off plus 40p for a 4
Their going to have your pants down with a few of them! 25kg could be £2 off plus 40p for a 4
Would you send 2 thoughTheir going to have your pants down with a few of them! 25kg could be £2 off plus 40p for a 4
Their going to have your pants down with a few of them! 25kg could be £2 off plus 40p for a 4
Well done ladTo be honest that lot had gone a bit over. Me and the Mrs had Covid after New Years and we lost a couple weeks. They should have gone off two weeks earlier.
However I sent them off to some grass keep after weaning in September as a bunch of 203 runts and I think I’ve seen them once since. Lost one lamb. 0.35p/h/W and owner checks daily and moves. Ground is watered and stock fenced. Went and weighed them and took 156 out of them, so I should think they will leave some good money despite some getting a few quid hammered off them.
Out of interest how do you grow your turnips without fert?No mate nothing, never put any on in my life and none of our landlords do either. Just got to get right leys, manage them right eyx. Also right sheep. And a dose of luck.
I said no feet on the grass.Out of interest how do you grow your turnips without fert?
Plenty of FYM.Out of interest how do you grow your turnips without fert?
Does an acre of turnips provide feed for enough stock to produce enough FYM for another acre of turnipsPlenty of FYM.
Not sure on that one without doing some calculations, but my system would be different to most, I grow aDoes an acre of turnips provide feed for enough stock to produce enough FYM for another acre of turnips
And even luckier still is the farmer who has enough acres not to need to use fertiliser.Lucky is the farm that can produce good quality stock off grass alone - regardless of the cost of fertiliser.
And you are right, home produced grass and silage etc requires land, labour and machinery. Bought-in concentrates ( used efficiently) only need a few cubic metres of storage space. And they tend to compensate for any deficiencies in home-grown grass.
Does an acre of turnips provide feed for enough stock to produce enough FYM for another acre of turnips
Does an acre of turnips provide feed for enough stock to produce enough FYM for another acre of turnips
Could sheep’s wool help to replace chemical fertiliser?
This study could be the first step in finding a new market for sheep’s wool which has dropped massively in price in recent years.www.farmersjournal.ie
your exlanas will spread it for you as well .I wonder what the process costs, as it sounds pretty energy hungry. Do the economics rely on them Irish merchants buying the wool over there at 5c a kilo?
I always find it fascinating reading threads on here from other farmers compared to my scale. Most people will have fields the same size as my entire farm. For me I have had in past and plan to get there again a high stock rate but high output of lambs. I have hen muck available at all times bear enough but it’s starting to not have a affect as much now as fields got sick off it. Only thing that has made grass grow well to match my grazing is about 50kg of straight nitrogen a acre. I sowed 3 500kg bags last summer and cut silage off 12 acres of my 36 acre farm. For all I use off it il try not to sow any but eventually I’m going to have to. If I run half as many sheep or even less it would get to point Itl be no point keeping that little sheep expect for a few pets aroundAnd even luckier still is the farmer who has enough acres not to need to use fertiliser.
Lack of N will always affect the small farmer most. I bet Prince Charles doesn't realise that!!!!!!!
Have you ever thought about growing beet. I have 10 acres grown for me and it produces enough food for 850 ewes (550 grazing and 300 on the lifted beet) for 12 weeks. Means that I can run a lot more ewes on my grass. It cost a lot to grow but produces a hell of a lot of beet on a small area.I always find it fascinating reading threads on here from other farmers compared to my scale. Most people will have fields the same size as my entire farm. For me I have had in past and plan to get there again a high stock rate but high output of lambs. I have hen muck available at all times bear enough but it’s starting to not have a affect as much now as fields got sick off it. Only thing that has made grass grow well to match my grazing is about 50kg of straight nitrogen a acre. I sowed 3 500kg bags last summer and cut silage off 12 acres of my 36 acre farm. For all I use off it il try not to sow any but eventually I’m going to have to. If I run half as many sheep or even less it would get to point Itl be no point keeping that little sheep expect for a few pets around