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- Owaka, New Zealand
"Rip & drip" KP? Opportunity to splash on some of that fish brew/humate, do you think it makes a difference?We did DD seagulls last week View attachment 995587
new water main will run up here, so I gave it a rip and then used the mark to lead the subsoiler in and out. Quite surprised to see the number of gulls considering the worms are quite deep at the moment, but they weren't just there to watch
Busted! I'm actually going to do a wee field-trial with humate granules "down the spout" at 125 and 250kg/ha (I'm going to crossdrill it, so it's really just a matter of tipping it in a fert box already calibrated for 125kg/ha DAP), but I did have a few hours to see how I'd set up a drip system on the machine. Too many hours"Rip & drip" KP? Opportunity to splash on some of that fish brew/humate, do you think it makes a difference?
Sorry - I have no clue as to how to get my video off there, and onto here, for all the good folk who don't do facebook.
I know it is doable.. but maybe not from a group, with a smartphone. If someone can, please do so
Anyway... that's how it works
Yes, it could do. Things have got to the stage that one shift is too slow and two shifts isn't getting the work done, so after pondering it ... I'll make 2 calf mobs from 3, and put our own cattle in the spare system.wow, very efficient!
How is it going playing with time instead of space? does it.not give you some awkward shifting times?
for the film, you need to upload it somewhere online. youtube or vimeo etc then put the link on here.
Yes, it could do. Things have got to the stage that one shift is too slow and two shifts isn't getting the work done, so after pondering it ... I'll make 2 calf mobs from 3, and put our own cattle in the spare system.
I think raising the SR is the most logical and necessary thing to do at this point, as we certainly can play with the speed but it's really just fighting against it.
Swapping from 4/ha up to 6/ha or more, should really allow us to tune it by giving us more shifts per week.
We can still reduce area, eg we drop 20 cells for each mob, it's close to double the stocking rate we're on now, and I think it's the way forward at the moment
if we have 43 ha total, 7 ha is out for renovations, then what I described just above (all the stock on 18ha or so) actually means the density is doing something worthwhile for us - allowing half the remaining area to have a rest.
Then we can simply put them on that, while the new grass grows and start our stockpile from quite a clean slate
That is ideal - even if it isn't ideal.Working on the weak links in my hollistic plan right now. I didn't realise how many there are! Which is good, because it means there are plenty of things to improve.
Whatever works in practice is generally not the wrong way!over the years, there have been lots of grazing systems promoted, as the 'must do' way, not sure which one was the best, they all 'worked', l know of 1 farmer, who has 21 paddocks, and 1 paddock/day, that sort of works, till grass runs out.
We work more on a principle of, 'stocking the grass', flexibly using what is actually there, plus using a back fence. Not sure that is the right way, but seems to work well here.
The conclusion of the grazing season, has left us with acres of lovely grazing, with serious amounts of clover, left, which we cannot really use, lost our first cow ever, from bloat this week.
Our ground cannot really be cattle stocked, now, till next spring, decades of experience have taught us that ! So, back to the wooly maggots. Perhaps, we should be leaving it, so what is wasted over winter, is utilised by the soil, after read newman turner, he might have worked the principles out well, he certainly failed on the ease of working, side of it !