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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 7940016" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>but that is exactly what we have been taught, pp is bad, till now, when it's good !</p><p>no idea of how many talks, lectures, farm walks, l have been on, showing/telling us how new reseeds produce xyz more than pp, and we need to reseed, to 'improve' our grass, and get more production from them, right since college, 1973, has that been drummed in.</p><p></p><p>It is only as one gets older, and can look back over longer periods, can you realise how much money, has been wasted, by listening to those ##########</p><p></p><p>There is a time and place for everything, and l begin to realise/wonder, how much we have been manipulated. Is pp worse than leys, because we have treated it as 'less productive', and not spent the time/effort in improving them ? Certainly l have been very quick to reseed, and have no pp on my farm, thinking it 'bad' and less productive, and then, how many times have l reseeded, because the rye grasses have 'died' out. Now, we do actually farm some old ley/pp, and it is surprising what it yields, and in our reseeding, we now sow 'old' types of grass, because we think they will last longer, esp when stressed.</p><p></p><p>But good grass management, can save you serious money, as below, shows what can be achieved, 2nd cut, 25 may, off a cut only ley. On another thread, dairy, some one was mocking me, about letting sheep 'tidy up', over winter, as we do, and suggesting our silage making, wasn't up to scratch, suffice to say, he didn't respond ! But the truth is, we need to make quality, to keep concentrate use down, not only for us, but carbon foot print, but l think by management, we can get good quality off pp, we just need to try harder.[ATTACH=full]1010552[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 7940016, member: 86168"] but that is exactly what we have been taught, pp is bad, till now, when it's good ! no idea of how many talks, lectures, farm walks, l have been on, showing/telling us how new reseeds produce xyz more than pp, and we need to reseed, to 'improve' our grass, and get more production from them, right since college, 1973, has that been drummed in. It is only as one gets older, and can look back over longer periods, can you realise how much money, has been wasted, by listening to those ########## There is a time and place for everything, and l begin to realise/wonder, how much we have been manipulated. Is pp worse than leys, because we have treated it as 'less productive', and not spent the time/effort in improving them ? Certainly l have been very quick to reseed, and have no pp on my farm, thinking it 'bad' and less productive, and then, how many times have l reseeded, because the rye grasses have 'died' out. Now, we do actually farm some old ley/pp, and it is surprising what it yields, and in our reseeding, we now sow 'old' types of grass, because we think they will last longer, esp when stressed. But good grass management, can save you serious money, as below, shows what can be achieved, 2nd cut, 25 may, off a cut only ley. On another thread, dairy, some one was mocking me, about letting sheep 'tidy up', over winter, as we do, and suggesting our silage making, wasn't up to scratch, suffice to say, he didn't respond ! But the truth is, we need to make quality, to keep concentrate use down, not only for us, but carbon foot print, but l think by management, we can get good quality off pp, we just need to try harder.[ATTACH type="full"]1010552[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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