Silage replacer

[supercow]

Losing 100 acres of silage ground to our landlord, flipping our cow grazing acres and a bit more grazing ground into silage ground, keeping them in 365 tho, what silage replacers could I use? I’m thinking fodder beet, crush it on farm and buy cleaned, 7kgs a day would save roughly 300 ton of silage, maybe feed a bit more Supergrain, any suggestions? I want to keep the diet healthy so grudging more buying more blend

 

[Headless chicken]

Moist feed, should be a fair bit of draff in with you I’d of thought

 

[supercow]

Moist feed, should be a fair bit of draff in with you I’d of thought

We use Supergrains, definitely saves the silage!! 1.5 ton a day of beet 2 ton Supergrains I’d hardly be using any silage I’m hoping

 

[supercow]

My nutritionist advised fodder beer as silages aren’t as high sugars as they used to be

 

[Jasper]

Fodder beet is an excellent feed but Keeping a regular supply going in frosty weather can be tricky

 

[supercow]

Fodder beet is an excellent feed but Keeping a regular supply going in frosty weather can be tricky

Does it help if it’s sheeted? Try and buy when it’s not a frosty time? An artic should last 2 weeks, frosty periods aren’t that prolonged ? I don’t understand fodder beet but il try figure it out!

 

[Jasper]

What you harvest you can keep frost free fairly easily it’s when you’ve used all this up and you need to dig some more but this won’t be a problem every year I don’t know how much you would be growing but could you dig and store it all at once

 

[supercow]

What you harvest you can keep frost free fairly easily it’s when you’ve used all this up and you need to dig some more but this won’t be a problem every year I don’t know how much you would be growing but could you dig and store it all at once

I’d be buying it in, won’t grow it sounds far too technical for me
Saying that I read you can yield 20/30 ton an acre it would be a good yield per acre compared to silage, is that correct?

 

[Jasper]

Buying it in is a good idea you can spend a lot of money growing it yourself and get a poor crop if you pay for 25 ton you get 25 ton you need to find yourself a good reliable grower

 

[More to life]

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Losing 100 acres of silage ground to our landlord, flipping our cow grazing acres and a bit more grazing ground into silage ground, keeping them in 365 tho, what silage replacers could I use? I’m thinking fodder beet, crush it on farm and buy cleaned, 7kgs a day would save roughly 300 ton of silage, maybe feed a bit more Supergrain, any suggestions? I want to keep the diet healthy so grudging more buying more blend

Have you binned off any sheep or young stock?

 

[Bangoverthebar]

Palm kernel is a high dm forage replacer. I started to use it during droughts, i keep it in the diet full time as ita great for butterfats.

 

[supercow]

Palm kernel is a high dm forage replacer. I started to use it during droughts, i keep it in the diet full time as ita great for butterfats.

In bulk? Is that tipped? How many kgs do you feed?

 

[supercow]

Buying it in is a good idea you can spend a lot of money growing it yourself and get a poor crop if you pay for 25 ton you get 25 ton you need to find yourself a good reliable grower

There seems to be plenty in the area, Cumbria south Scotland area

 

[supercow]

Have you binned off any sheep or young stock?

We lose the ground next November so have sheep on this winter. Should we scrap the sheep next winter? Does it make much difference when the sheep are off in January? Keeping youngstock, certainly know who your friends are in times of need regarding grazing needs. I’m going to stick green slat matts in the slatted shed I may keep some In a bit longer. The young stock do so badly on slats alone. I’m hoping the green slatmatts will help, anyone installed them and seen a difference?

 

[supercow]

Buying it in is a good idea you can spend a lot of money growing it yourself and get a poor crop if you pay for 25 ton you get 25 ton you need to find yourself a good reliable grower

Think I’m looking at 50£ a ton delivered.

 

[hendrebc]

You won't find fodder beet year round though if they are housed 365 days?

 

[More to life]

We lose the ground next November so have sheep on this winter. Should we scrap the sheep next winter? Does it make much difference when the sheep are off in January? Keeping youngstock, certainly know who your friends are in times of need regarding grazing needs. I’m going to stick green slat matts in the slatted shed I may keep some In a bit longer. The young stock do so badly on slats alone. I’m hoping the green slatmatts will help, anyone installed them and seen a difference?

I was thinking going flying herd is way cheaper than buying silage replacers

 

[supercow]

You won't find fodder beet year round though if they are housed 365 days?

Oct-April is the harvest season apparently. 1600kg a day, 300 ton, 15k a winter. It should add to milk yield in some way surely, added energy etc

 

[Jdunn55]

Losing 100 acres of silage ground to our landlord, flipping our cow grazing acres and a bit more grazing ground into silage ground, keeping them in 365 tho, what silage replacers could I use? I’m thinking fodder beet, crush it on farm and buy cleaned, 7kgs a day would save roughly 300 ton of silage, maybe feed a bit more Supergrain, any suggestions? I want to keep the diet healthy so grudging more buying more blend

What about land for spreading slurry?
You'll be buying in all these nutrients but they need to go somewhere or all you indexes will be way high and you'll grow less on what land you have left?

Could you get someone to rear your youngstock for you?

Is finding replacement land unlikely?

Not saying that in a horrible way BTW, just not as simple as buying forage in I would think

 

[dinderleat]

Why don’t you milk less cows
But bin the sheep, minimal youngstock top up with bough in heifers