- Location
- Northern Ireland
Wet on top. Dry on bottom.
Silage 2020
- Thread starter Bald Rick
- Start date
Headless chicken
Member
- Location
- West Wales
silage 2020 can kindly go f**k itself.
140 acres of sh!t that needed to be off weeks ago, 30 acres of reasonable stuff 30 acres that we couldn’t even get a quad bike into the field.
Sweeping up now before the complaints from bellend locals and holiday makers start about how they’re pristine white car is now slightly muddy.
But on a happy note, that is us done for the year!
What will you do with the ground between now and 1st cut?
Headless chicken
Member
- Location
- West Wales
heifers will take some of it until 15th of October tack sheep the rest. I’d normally push for another cut but we took on so much more to cover us for the drought our clamps are rammed and my bank account empty.100 acres we did last week was seasonal so back to the owners.
stablegirl
Member
- Location
- North
200 acre 4th cut mown yesterday, another good cut should get done today then grass 2020 is done.
It's been a pretty decent year for silage here to be honest 4 heavy cuts.
It's been a pretty decent year for silage here to be honest 4 heavy cuts.
Your next cut will be 1st wk of October? Getting touch and go by then or reasonably reliable?
buffalo_soldier
Member
- Location
- cumbria
Bit of a weather window so Joining the party as well. Clamps full so dropping a bit for bales.
stablegirl
Member
- Location
- North
No 5th cut, store lams and sheep now, grazing milk cows for another 3 weeks on the best.
Sorry I read it as another good cut needed.
- Location
- South Molton
Found a blocked drain yesterday, 100m of water pipe and all clear, drying up nicely
- Location
- somerset
after moaning about no grass all summer, red clover prg ley, cut 8 august, ready to cut again, will have to leave till next week, for the N to be used up ! But all the leys are in overdrive, confirming our f#######d grass season, was drought related, which, in a way, is reassuring, it wasn't us !
In our autumn reseeds, we have included, as a trial, chicory, plantain and vetch, as well as cocksfoot, after 3 dry summers, we farm for another dry summer, buying forage is a mugs game. Anyway, if it's a wet one, our fodder reserves will be rebuilt.
In our autumn reseeds, we have included, as a trial, chicory, plantain and vetch, as well as cocksfoot, after 3 dry summers, we farm for another dry summer, buying forage is a mugs game. Anyway, if it's a wet one, our fodder reserves will be rebuilt.
- Location
- somerset
anybody with ideas, of how hybrid rye, sown with vetches, could work ? Very satisfied with h/rye, yield wise, av 18 ton/ac, but protien is low, just going to try vetches with some, to see if it works ! 5kg vetch/acre.
Jdunn55
Member
- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Found vetch was good when sown with our spring barley, but it doesn't survive after cutting - ours was just undersowed as part of a grass ley
- Location
- somerset
h/rye, is one cut, w/crop. Used to grow oats and vetches in the late 60's early 70's, i can remember some very horizontal crops, the reason they stopped growing them ! But, times and breeding have gone on, and now, just as my generation, were telling our parents, to stop growing the stuff, the next generation, is wanting to try again !
A very true quote, in the FG this week, NZ farmers survived the sub loss, by open thinking, and not relying on tradition, i think perhaps, that ought to be printed, in bold letters, across every farming publication !!!!!
A very true quote, in the FG this week, NZ farmers survived the sub loss, by open thinking, and not relying on tradition, i think perhaps, that ought to be printed, in bold letters, across every farming publication !!!!!
- Location
- South Molton
Like needing nitrogen from a bag, all cows need antibiotics to cure mastitis and dry tubes.
Cavet is that udder health has improved massively since 60s 70s and 80s!
- Location
- somerset
our a/b usage is tiny, compared to 5 years ago, then, perhaps, it was routine, or insurance use, today, so much, health wise, that it is now actively discouraged, before long, it will be very limited use, and only by the vets. While a/b has been a fantastic cure, for human, as well as cattle, with resistance, and no new a/bs, we are heading for some dangerous times, infection wise.
We did some this year, in bales... Also left too long post cutting so the dm will be too high. Plenty of bulk, and ripened at a similar time. I think they're well suited, as vetch will swamp most cereals.
- Location
- Yorkshire
- Location
- South Molton
That looks like a challenging field!
Ducati899
Member
- Location
- north dorset
