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

[Kiwi Pete]

Looks a lot like it but I'm only 80% sure, @CornishTone can probably give a definite answer.
Mine have a slight bit of red at the beginning of the flower so probably where the name egg & bacon comes from.

The one we have here is quite different, it used to just be called "lotus major" but I think they reclassified it to L. corniculatus?

It's got a lot of little florets and they really do have a reddish tinge, Dad called it "ham and egg".

 

[Kiwi Pete]

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[som farmer]

with regard to moving sheep, a friend bottle rears, a few lambs, every year, makes a fuss of them, so they allways run up to him, when he checks round, for a handful of cake, where 1 sheep goes, the rest follow, bloody neat to watch, and he has 800 ewes, no dogs.

 

[Henarar]

lovely

 

[Treg]

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Bit of Yarrow in there and wild red clover, looking good H

 

[Woolless]

with regard to moving sheep, a friend bottle rears, a few lambs, every year, makes a fuss of them, so they allways run up to him, when he checks round, for a handful of cake, where 1 sheep goes, the rest follow, bloody neat to watch, and he has 800 ewes, no dogs.

Another job creation scheme for pet lambs, handy when you have kids! The former pets are certainly the first ones at the gate/wire when it's time for a move.

 

[clod hopper]

I find that 1day brakes are too narrow for sheep to run around the end of the fence,they all charge and you can't make a 'gateway' fast enough then they cut corners and get tangled up in the fence.
I do 2 day brakes and it works well and I do it in the dark at the moment (2 tape). I set the weeks' fences up on the weekends. I like it. I like that the sheep are not bullied as much and find escape easier with out going over/under the tape.

 

[som farmer]

we were advised to use a different spray programme on a 29 acre field of maize, why, not a clue, just did as told. It worked well, with one exception, at harvesting, the ground under the maize, was pretty solid with wild plantains, 29 acres of them, keep sheep loved them, and part of everyday, they would go back to them. It was not a problem, it shows what is still in the natural seed bank, certainly never seen it since, or before.

 

[Treg]

I noticed tonight that the 5 day old dungpats on this field are being shredded by insects.

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Dad & I have been looking at the Pat's the last couple of days , full of dung beetles, amazing watching them work, dad said he'd never seen them before?!?
But he wants to know why their there?
So are they predators? And what are they eating?
Or are they there laying eggs?

 

[Kiwi Pete]

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Beautiful. Probably one of the best quarter-hours of this internet week, I hope @Sheila Cooke is still peeking in as he really nails the HM / regen spirit (or I think so)

 

[Henarar]

Bit of Yarrow in there and wild red clover, looking good H

that's actually the same little field I put the photo on of the tups in the agroforestry, its a keep field and use to be a quarry probably 200 years ago, never has much done to it bar eaten with sheep, probably never had any fert

 

[ShooTa]

quick one bit of savory.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

quick one bit of savory.

That's a good wee clip. Shows the principles really well and in a way that you can take it out of an African context and make it your own

 

[Treg]

Dung beetles: Keeping pasture healthy and livestock happy - Agricology

In the UK, there are around 60 species of dung beetle. By going about their daily business, dung beetles provide an array of ecosystem services and it has been estimated that they save the UK cattle industry £367 million per annum1. How? Let’s delve deeper! Dung is an important source of...

www.agricology.co.uk

Found some info on dung beetles.

 

[Treg]

Identification

With practice, it is possible to identify many of the British dung beetle species in the field and it will be useful to carry a hand lens. Although some of the aphodiines are exceptionally difficul…

dungbeetlemap.wordpress.com

Just to help with beetle identification.

 

[Guleesh]

Dung beetles: Keeping pasture healthy and livestock happy - Agricology

In the UK, there are around 60 species of dung beetle. By going about their daily business, dung beetles provide an array of ecosystem services and it has been estimated that they save the UK cattle industry £367 million per annum1. How? Let’s delve deeper! Dung is an important source of...

www.agricology.co.uk

Found some info on dung beetles.

Great, we were seeing loads of the tunnels next to and under sheep sh!t a few weeks back and assumed dung beetles but this confirms it. And to think we were systematically killing them for years with all our doses and pour-ons, really pleased to see more of them this year.

 

[Treg]

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I'd love to see the reaction of that video on the modern grass is @#$☆ thread, their asking the right questions but ignoring the answers
And going back to @Henarar s picture of herbs, there are some on the other thread that say herbal leys don't last & yet H has them growing on land that hasn't been resown for 200yrs , which brings me back to one of KP s sayings ...Build it and they will come

 

[ShooTa]

talking beetles incase anyone missed it - PLUS they have a really good seminar with Jaime elonzo tomorrow night.

 

[Henarar]

I'd love to see the reaction of that video on the modern grass is @#$☆ thread, their asking the right questions but ignoring the answers
And going back to @Henarar s picture of herbs, there are some on the other thread that say herbal leys don't last & yet H has them growing on land that hasn't been resown for 200yrs , which brings me back to one of KP s sayings ...Build it and they will come

Its not all like that but it will come with management, it will go the other way with management and no seed
Same farm but the other end would have been similar old fashion stuff no fert, another farmer took it on and pushed it with fert and slurry and for years and now the sward is completely different
What I find with the old PP is you can feed it off pull the cattle out and it grows again . some fields here I will say about them "good field that always some grass in it" and very often its the rough looking fields that are all humps and holes that never get anything done to them, I know there will be grass there without going to look, some fields want to grow grass without trying, without being forced

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

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" Too much agriculture is trying to change the environment to suit their enterprise, irrigation is a great example. We should be changing the enterprise to suit the environment".

Not a popular message in conventional farming circles but true nonetheless.