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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="Agrispeed" data-source="post: 6510867" data-attributes="member: 10619"><p>Thanks, it took a while to get going but its starting to get there now.</p><p></p><p>This was a ploughing job on a tired old grass ley, that had seen outwintering of heavy sucklers for 5+ years, although this stopped 7 or so years ago, the field was still very poor. It had about 35t/Ha of fym, mixed with sand. This is an attempt at a summer grazing crop before going into the usual Rye/Brassica/ long term grass rotation, as we often get quite dry here in July/August.</p><p></p><p>A lot of the older grassland here is in need of renewing, and I don't like grass-grass reseeds so a cereal followed by a brassica seems to help, and you can grow an awful amount of forage from those two crops, with club root tolerant Kale, we can now add another brassica into the rotation, as you get a lot of feed for very low cost.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm a relative incomer I suppose, having previously studied another subject before doing a BSc in agriculture. However, what I think was really important for me was my course was taught by an excellent lecturers who were also farmers ( the course head is now Organic famer on the Devon coast) and as well as the 'traditional' aspects did a lot on holistic systems. An excellent aspect was that the year group was tiny, with 8 people and several of the others on the course were interested in the more abstract areas of farming and I suppose we steered our year in the direction we wanted more than is possible in larger institutions. We had a lot of visits to other farms, conferences and institutions, which meant I was able to do a lot of networking, which can be very difficult as a complete unknown.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Agrispeed, post: 6510867, member: 10619"] Thanks, it took a while to get going but its starting to get there now. This was a ploughing job on a tired old grass ley, that had seen outwintering of heavy sucklers for 5+ years, although this stopped 7 or so years ago, the field was still very poor. It had about 35t/Ha of fym, mixed with sand. This is an attempt at a summer grazing crop before going into the usual Rye/Brassica/ long term grass rotation, as we often get quite dry here in July/August. A lot of the older grassland here is in need of renewing, and I don't like grass-grass reseeds so a cereal followed by a brassica seems to help, and you can grow an awful amount of forage from those two crops, with club root tolerant Kale, we can now add another brassica into the rotation, as you get a lot of feed for very low cost. I'm a relative incomer I suppose, having previously studied another subject before doing a BSc in agriculture. However, what I think was really important for me was my course was taught by an excellent lecturers who were also farmers ( the course head is now Organic famer on the Devon coast) and as well as the 'traditional' aspects did a lot on holistic systems. An excellent aspect was that the year group was tiny, with 8 people and several of the others on the course were interested in the more abstract areas of farming and I suppose we steered our year in the direction we wanted more than is possible in larger institutions. We had a lot of visits to other farms, conferences and institutions, which meant I was able to do a lot of networking, which can be very difficult as a complete unknown. [/QUOTE]
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