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

Whitewalker

Member
No worries (y)

You can see why I'm reluctant to "define" anything, or regulate regenerative agriculture now?
It's as much about a farmer's health as that of stock, crops, soil.... a farm with no poisons and a suicidally depressed manager is not regenerative either
Things are getting serious we’re now going to get out the farm map to see the most efficient way to split paddocks and move the water to them ??
 

Humble Village Farmer

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BASE UK Member
Location
Essex
Hi folks, I have a field which I moled sprayed and reseeded August September 2017. Hardly any of the sown species have survived, maybe 1% of the chicory and cocks foot and nothing else I can see. It's full of the undesirable stuff I tried to get rid of including loads of buttercups. ( It was previously used for horseyculture) I have mob grazed it a couple of times and took silage off it last year. Only grazing for the first time now and I'm realising that I should have put the sheep on there while we had them handy in the spring. What else can I do to improve please chaps?
 

Kiwi Pete

Member
Livestock Farmer
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Quite a bright day today, good for taking photos for once. Going to graze off a dark face (over their backs in the bottom pic) next and then it can have haybales dotted about on it for the springtime when it's wet. With this many animals it'd take me 170 days to get back here, so in our context we need twice as many calves in the mob.
 

Whitewalker

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Quite a bright day today, good for taking photos for once. Going to graze off a dark face (over their backs in the bottom pic) next and then it can have haybales dotted about on it for the springtime when it's wet. With this many animals it'd take me 170 days to get back here, so in our context we need twice as many calves in the mob.

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What’s going on here Pete ? Your water ? Any more pics and info
 

baaa

Member
Life is tough sometimes. I am just in the middle of lambing and I have a drama with the electric fencing for my paddocks. The neighbour who was allowing me to use his electricity for my fencer has sold and suddenly turned the power off without warning. The other two residents are reluctant to allow me to use their electricity. I bought the most powerful mains fencing unit I could buy last year. It takes in 30J and puts out 15J. I was wondering if it was possible to convert it to a solar panel energiser with an inverter. Does anyone know where I might find the information about such stuff?
 

Kiwi Pete

Member
Livestock Farmer
Life is tough sometimes. I am just in the middle of lambing and I have a drama with the electric fencing for my paddocks. The neighbour who was allowing me to use his electricity for my fencer has sold and suddenly turned the power off without warning. The other two residents are reluctant to allow me to use their electricity. I bought the most powerful mains fencing unit I could buy last year. It takes in 30J and puts out 15J. I was wondering if it was possible to convert it to a solar panel energiser with an inverter. Does anyone know where I might find the information about such stuff?
A lot of the mid-sized energisers available here are able to be powered from 12V/solar as well as mains. What have you got?
 

holwellcourtfarm

Member
Livestock Farmer
Life is tough sometimes. I am just in the middle of lambing and I have a drama with the electric fencing for my paddocks. The neighbour who was allowing me to use his electricity for my fencer has sold and suddenly turned the power off without warning. The other two residents are reluctant to allow me to use their electricity. I bought the most powerful mains fencing unit I could buy last year. It takes in 30J and puts out 15J. I was wondering if it was possible to convert it to a solar panel energiser with an inverter. Does anyone know where I might find the information about such stuff?
Try searching online motor home or off grid living forums. They have very useful info on setting up solar PV systems.
 

Farmer Roy

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Arable Farmer
Location
NSW, Newstralya
Hey @Kiwi Pete - thanks heaps mate for your donation. I’m thanking you here publicly in case anyone else wants to donate :ROFLMAO: - also a big thanks to @holwellcourtfarm for your donation. I really do appreciate it & it’s for something that I have a personal interest in, but also affects so many people.
Love:love: you guys


 

Kiwi Pete

Member
Livestock Farmer

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 79 42.0%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 66 35.1%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 16.0%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 7 3.7%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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