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Looking at trying either or both to try and get extra milk from the cows. Any body tryed growing either?
A neibour of mine grows fodderbeet organically for milking cows. He does it,and does it very well. They use a contractor with mid-mounted laser guided inter row hoe probably 2/3 times.
Not as much as he liked last year, had to buy some in. ground is free drainingThats good to hear that it is possible! Do you know what sort of yields he gets?
Well that makes 2 people that can grow it then! Even if yields are variable. guess last year could not had dry days to get the hoe in.
Yes indeed, some of the best crops I've seen growing organically have been arable silage mixtures which included some or all SB/forage pea/maple pea & vetch under sown with grass, good dense growth weeds hardly get a look in!They do indeed but organically I'd sooner stick with a crop that performs every year rather than one that can be a disaster and leave me short of forage.
Yes, I can well believe that, quite a few acres are going to be down sown down here soon.For smothering weeds our lucerne seems to top the list. After the first year not even docks get a look in.
Not to sure about that Jim, I've attached a very informative lucerne growers guide produced by BSH if anyone is interested.we been told that we are too close to the coast for lucerne cos it doesnt like salt on its toes is that correct