"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

[ShooTa]

good work team grazers.

 

[JohnGalway]

Took the drone up for a spin, bed & breakfast.

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

I've seen the verge at your place, and i can say it was scary enough crossing in a car ? never mind being just stood the other side of a hot wire!
It makes KP's long acre look like a walk in the park!

It looked pre

Is it worth harvesting?

I have been known to mow it and bring it in to feed any cows left inside in spring

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Grass starting to get some colour in it now still lots off bare poached hoofprints but thankfully there not holding water so that’s a good sign View attachment 860002
Water tank in place ready for piping up from a stream to help with this coming seasons divisions so I don’t need to keep a lane back to the one water point View attachment 860001
got a few repairs to do around said water point View attachment 860003
Same field I’m going to have a fair job tidying all rubble and silt from the blown culvert the other week thankfully I’m not intending on mowing it View attachment 860005

With regards to my poaching/bare ground cover I was wondering if it would be worth spinning on a little herbal lay to introduce some variety rather soon. Maybe at say 1/2 rate just to get some diversity into the ground.
I’m thinking that we are soon going into March so hopefully less chance off snow/frost
What do you guys think ?

Try a simple cheap mix, or get some straights and mix your own? The mixes look more expensive than a marriage mistake.

Oats, vetch, rape, clover is a good "roadworks mix" to spin on

 

[Bury the Trash]

Took the drone up for a spin, bed & breakfast.

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amazing scenery ,
the ancient and the modern.

 

[Crofter64]

Took the drone up for a spin, bed & breakfast.

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They seem to appreciate the mattress you so kindly rolled out for them

 

[Bill the Bass]

I have been known to mow it and bring it in to feed any cows left inside in spring

If we mowed our roadside verges our cows would end up on a diet of happy meal wrappers and truckers shandy

 

[ShooTa]

time to replan some bits...

 

[Henarar]

We went up about ten miles north of Hereford yesterday to deliver a bull, lots of water about up there, got in the floods at one point and had to turn round the water was coming of the fields through the hedge and down the road like a river, it was up as high as the wheels on the cattle trailer, had to find our way round we were glad to get there

 

[ShooTa]

to be fair that was from yesterday - went up much further overnight - but most has gone now - 90% or more is run off from a bit of river upsteam of us (next field over) where it meanders and just cuts the corner back onto the road and then into our ditches...and subsequently the field once full./

 

[Karliboy]

Waiting for the train for a day trip to Leeds university for a soil testing demonstration with my own soil

 

[ShooTa]

just look at all that space that could be planted - its a mono culture of concrete and misery.

 

[onesiedale]

just look at all that space that could be planted - its a mono culture of concrete and misery.

I just look at the sleepers and think 'one day they'll make good cow tracks'

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Spotted some "new" fungi tonight, about 30 seconds before my phone battery died.

So I only got a couple of snaps and then went out and filled a bucket with mushrooms, ate my fill, and came home.

 

[Farmer Roy]

Taking a day off to go to this field day.
Sorta local to me, but still 300km away.

everyone should be familiar with David Marsh from vids I’ve posted here
Christine Jones & Jim Gerish need no introduction

the last couple, Nick & Alex Anderson, I know personally, they are from here & are a very impressive young couple ( despite Nicks father being a former Deputy PM & leader of the Nats during the Howard government )

should be a great day

MaiaGrazing Annual Field Day 2020 - Register For the Event FEB 27

Featuring Jim Gerrish, Christine Jones, Bart Davidson, David Marsh, Toby Grogan, Dennis Hoiberg, Nick & Alex Anderson. Register Today Limited Spots.

www.maiagrazing.com

 

[Farmer Roy]

https://www.facebook.com/2552242461669174/posts/2896697020557048

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Wicked!
There was a local pasture walk today but I was there last weekend so didn't attend- apparently a LOT of people did, which is excellent

Really good to see the momentum that regen ag is building, it doesn't seem long ago that people looked at you like you just admitted to having the clap if you said you were practicing regenerative agriculture, and now people ask about what you do differently - which is amazing

Some superstars in that lineup

 

[onesiedale]

Taking a day off to go to this field day.
Sorta local to me, but still 300km away.

everyone should be familiar with David Marsh from vids I’ve posted here
Christine Jones & Jim Gerish need no introduction

the last couple, Nick & Alex Anderson, I know personally, they are from here & are a very impressive young couple ( despite Nicks father being a former Deputy PM & leader of the Nats during the Howard government )

should be a great day

MaiaGrazing Annual Field Day 2020 - Register For the Event FEB 27

Featuring Jim Gerrish, Christine Jones, Bart Davidson, David Marsh, Toby Grogan, Dennis Hoiberg, Nick & Alex Anderson. Register Today Limited Spots.

www.maiagrazing.com

@Farmer Roy I trust you will report back for us ?

 

[Northern territory]

What is best method to pump water from a river and get enough pressure to water troughs. Probably 1 km at furthest point, no gravity as all flat ground.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

What is best method to pump water from a river and get enough pressure to water troughs. Probably 1 km at furthest point, no gravity as all flat ground.

Possibly a small/medium sized solar pump, maybe enclose the pump in a building and put a small header tank on top?