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Lot of stood grass in cornwall.
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<blockquote data-quote="ollie989898" data-source="post: 8187398" data-attributes="member: 54866"><p>With the price of fertiliser is it no wonder people are sending on cows or getting out? Big money for a load of fertiliser and a lot of that land on the levels isn't in good heart to begin with. It would not surprise me at all if people were waiting until now for their first cut to get the bulk out of it because I am near certain that a lot of the land on the levels will not do much at all without any bagged magic.</p><p></p><p>Much of it is wet, acid or overgrown with problematic species, it's not the sort of land you can really farm on a shoestring because it wants to revert to it's old ways quite quickly. I can think of some medium or even large farms in the area and you can spot the fields they operate on very readily as they will be growing something and stand out miles amongst the others.</p><p></p><p>Truth be told with things as they are now I bet a few dairy farms should have got rid of those cows last autumn, saved on work, saved on silage and the remainder of the herd would have done better because of having a bit more space around the place.</p><p></p><p>Regarding sheep and beef on the levels I couldn't tell you, in my experience, neither of these sub-divisions spend much money on running their land anyway. A large portion of the levels isn't farmer that intensively at all. It's actually probably the traditional way of farming there and been practiced for decades. I remember a client telling me about how in the drought of 76 a lot of farmers on the levels dried all their cows off, cut down all the withys and let the cows have a holiday all summer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ollie989898, post: 8187398, member: 54866"] With the price of fertiliser is it no wonder people are sending on cows or getting out? Big money for a load of fertiliser and a lot of that land on the levels isn't in good heart to begin with. It would not surprise me at all if people were waiting until now for their first cut to get the bulk out of it because I am near certain that a lot of the land on the levels will not do much at all without any bagged magic. Much of it is wet, acid or overgrown with problematic species, it's not the sort of land you can really farm on a shoestring because it wants to revert to it's old ways quite quickly. I can think of some medium or even large farms in the area and you can spot the fields they operate on very readily as they will be growing something and stand out miles amongst the others. Truth be told with things as they are now I bet a few dairy farms should have got rid of those cows last autumn, saved on work, saved on silage and the remainder of the herd would have done better because of having a bit more space around the place. Regarding sheep and beef on the levels I couldn't tell you, in my experience, neither of these sub-divisions spend much money on running their land anyway. A large portion of the levels isn't farmer that intensively at all. It's actually probably the traditional way of farming there and been practiced for decades. I remember a client telling me about how in the drought of 76 a lot of farmers on the levels dried all their cows off, cut down all the withys and let the cows have a holiday all summer. [/QUOTE]
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