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

[Whitewalker]

No worries

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 ??

 

[Woolless]

Well done, a lot of farmers neglect to put in rope swings for lambs to play on, a happy lamb is a growing lamb

You mock, it'll be part of the organic standard shortly!?

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

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?

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

in one corner as well and even a rope swing if the lambs want to play. the thing is nothing is done with a lot of the apples so the sheep get them as well.

British animal welfare at its best

 

[Kiwi Pete]

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.

 

[Farmer Roy]

Going Around In Circles

Rotational grazing doesn’t work. It doesn’t work for at least two reasons. One reason it doesn’t work is that, rather than rotationally graze, most people rotationally overgraze. They get overstock…

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[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.

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

 

[Kiwi Pete]

View attachment 882707What’s going on here Pete ? Your water ? Any more pics and info

Yep, just a standard portable plastic trough. Just tapped into my farm water line, and fed through a 200 metre length of inch/25mm polypipe (with about 40 metres of 20mm rolled onto the trough).
I have a similar setup for the sheep mob.

 

[Whitewalker]

Yep, just a standard portable plastic trough. Just tapped into my farm water line, and fed through a 200 metre length of inch/25mm polypipe (with about 40 metres of 20mm rolled onto the trough).
I have a similar setup for the sheep mob.

I’ve led a very sheltered life ?

 

[Henarar]

picks of the smaller trees, to my way of thinking they are to close together if you are interested in the grazing

 

[Kiwi Pete]

View attachment 882724View attachment 882725picks of the smaller trees, to my way of thinking they are to close together if you are interested in the grazing

What do you have in there, are they all (or mostly) apple?

 

[baaa]

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]

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]

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.

 

[Henarar]

What do you have in there, are they all (or mostly) apple?

Mostly apple, there is some other stuff in one corner its very dark there with little grass, I think it would be better with taller apple trees to keep them more out the way also bigger and less of them

 

[Farmer Roy]

Hey @Kiwi Pete - thanks heaps mate for your donation. I’m thanking you here publicly in case anyone else wants to donate - 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 you guys

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[Kiwi Pete]

Community Supported Agriculture – what is it? - How to achieve sustainable food production for increased profit and well-being

For over 25 years, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) has become a popular way for consumers to buy local, seasonal food directly from a farmer. Here are the basics: a farmer offers a certain number of "shares" to the public. Typically the share consists of a box of vegetables, but other farm...

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I like this idea.

 

[Guleesh]

Mostly apple, there is some other stuff in one corner its very dark there with little grass, I think it would be better with taller apple trees to keep them more out the way also bigger and less of them

Do your sheep ever strip bark off the apple trees?

 

[Woolless]

Do your sheep ever strip bark off the apple trees?

I was wondering that. Apparently, Shropshire sheep are the only breed that can be relied upon not to damage trees.

 

[Henarar]

Do your sheep ever strip bark off the apple trees?

we have only put theaves in there up till now and they have been ok but we will have to keep an eye on them