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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 7452137" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>got to admit your cattle look well, must be doing something right ! Don't know what your store cattle prices are like, over here, you would have to sit down, to get over the shock.</p><p> My question about why grass seed rates have increased 250% since 1970 produced some good 'stir up' on the grass seed thread, most thinking me to be incredibly tight. It produced one suprising answer though, EU rules allow for lower germination rates, couple that with 0.7% 'rubbish', dead husk, stem etc, a bag of seed could be as low as 66.5 % viable, so important to check origin.</p><p> It was definitely a mistake to get my old college textbooks out of the cupboard, the way we do things now.... a lot could be relearnt, to our advantage. One thing i will alter with grass seed, we only use medium to large leaf w clover, on the principle cows don't/can't eat the smaller leaf varieties, we will include some, to try and 'thicken' ground cover, and they will put extra N back in, as well.</p><p> Found some info about using clover swards, and drilling w wheat in them, that must have been in my 'memory bank' when i said about drilling wheat into a clover stand. I think further browsing is called for, i may regain some useful thoughts, it is, however, scary to see how farming has altered.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 7452137, member: 86168"] got to admit your cattle look well, must be doing something right ! Don't know what your store cattle prices are like, over here, you would have to sit down, to get over the shock. My question about why grass seed rates have increased 250% since 1970 produced some good 'stir up' on the grass seed thread, most thinking me to be incredibly tight. It produced one suprising answer though, EU rules allow for lower germination rates, couple that with 0.7% 'rubbish', dead husk, stem etc, a bag of seed could be as low as 66.5 % viable, so important to check origin. It was definitely a mistake to get my old college textbooks out of the cupboard, the way we do things now.... a lot could be relearnt, to our advantage. One thing i will alter with grass seed, we only use medium to large leaf w clover, on the principle cows don't/can't eat the smaller leaf varieties, we will include some, to try and 'thicken' ground cover, and they will put extra N back in, as well. Found some info about using clover swards, and drilling w wheat in them, that must have been in my 'memory bank' when i said about drilling wheat into a clover stand. I think further browsing is called for, i may regain some useful thoughts, it is, however, scary to see how farming has altered. [/QUOTE]
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