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I know they are a pain to brig in and handle all winter, but if you are aiming for top quality, surely that is the way to do it for multicut?

My plan this year is to bail enough of my first cut this year so as I can use 2 bales/day all year. This mixed in with wholecrop, whatever pit I am using and hopefully potatoes again. Just trying to keep the diet as consistent as possible.
 

The Agrarian

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Mixed Farmer
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Northern Ireland
Cut silage end of may and around the twelfth, order some extra meal. No licking the back wall of the silo in January, another less headache. As my neighbour said...... all you boys talk about is quality before Christmas and quantity after Christmas

More cuts doesn't mean less volume. Leaving it in the field longer means slower regrowth.

On that, yin ewe is right. Should have gone last week, because it looks like it will be the latest first cut we've taken in years, by the time this weather mends.
 

Seacull

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daveydiesel1

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Livestock Farmer
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Co antrim
More cuts doesn't mean less volume. Leaving it in the field longer means slower regrowth.

On that, yin ewe is right. Should have gone last week, because it looks like it will be the latest first cut we've taken in years, by the time this weather mends.
Well why did u not go last week? Or were u like the rest o us thinkin no way is there enough on it to cut.
 

Mouser

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Location
near Belfast
Just out of interest what would you expect to pay a contractor for bailing in your area, Mow, Ted, Rake & Bale?
£7/bale in a decent crop. At 3 bales/acre 8 would be more likely. £20 for mow ted rake. Then you have to park the horrible things, look at them all year knowing how horrible it is feeding them out again!🤣
Sooner have a wagon contractor for light crops than bales
 

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