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In the pit

In the pit

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Livestock Farmer
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Pembrokeshire
jerseycowsman said:
It's a hell of a balancing act between loosing milk yield as forcing the cows to eat it down, or loosing grass quality as maybe not eating it down properly. But I view it as being easier to reset the grass quality with a bit of pre mowing
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We have pre mown in the past but boss hates it
We don't seem to loose any quality if it's not bitten down properly anyway
A big problem we have is contractors mowing for our silage
It platemeters at 2100 if we're lucky
 

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Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

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On Thursday 26th September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to go through the guidance, actions and detail for the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer. This was planned for end of May, but had to be delayed due to the general election. We apologise about that.

Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes will be joined by policy leads working on SFI, and colleagues from the Rural Payment Agency and Catchment Sensitive Farming.

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