- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Sowing peas...!!
- Thread starter Kiwi Pete
- Start date
Did @holwellcourtfarm see the video o tagged you in? That was a really interesting video of interseeding maize
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
I tagged pete in it thinking he could show you. I might have just got him in trouble nowI don't recall it......
Doesn't mean I didn't see it.
i bet he forgot
Hwre it is if the link works
https://m.facebook.com/groups/154480008227557?view=permalink&id=645392185803001
https://m.facebook.com/groups/154480008227557?view=permalink&id=645392185803001
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
I tagged pete in it thinking he could show you. I might have just got him in trouble now
We're only 12000 miles apart
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
I tried but wouldn't let me tag him because of the group settings, I presume? You might need to be a member perhaps?I tagged pete in it thinking he could show you. I might have just got him in trouble now
Ta for the vote of confidence
If your like me theres a lot going on in the little screen in your pocket its easy to forget stuff, i do all the time. Did the link work?I tried but wouldn't let me tag him because of the group settings, I presume? You might need to be a member perhaps?
Ta for the vote of confidence
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
I only figured out how to post links from FB recently by accident. I had been known to ask @Farmer Roy to do it for me before nowYes, I must discover how to work FB one wet day
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
It let me see it, thanks
I need to log in to react though and I rarely do that. If it wasn't for FB hosting the farm page and being the easiest way to keep in touch with friends across the globe I'd dump it.
JD-Kid
Member
- Location
- Akaroa.. New Zealand
hahaha come on yer only keep FB to see my jokes cooking tips smart arse remarks and my nude pic'sIt let me see it, thanks
I need to log in to react though and I rarely do that. If it wasn't for FB hosting the farm page and being the easiest way to keep in touch with friends across the globe I'd dump it.
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Some of the stuff you share has me in fits!!
JD-Kid
Member
- Location
- Akaroa.. New Zealand
has me close to a nice jacket with the zip on the back hahahahaha
- Location
- West Country
@Kiwi Pete interesting thread. Was there any reason you didn’t, or couldn’t of grazed the peas in situ?
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
I imagine they would have made a great grazing crop.
I'm going to try similar in a few months for a silage crop, but I can't see why it needs to be harvested first - I would just introduce it slowly as it is a little too tasty to just let 'em in to a whole field as some people do with crops!!
It would make a beautiful cut 'n carry crop.
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
@DanM - the reason I didn't graze in-situ was just the timing of the crop to suit the "pasture surplus" which due to the dry didn't really occur! It was cut on the longest day.
However, a winter pea crop would really be an ideal grazing crop for the spring, cattle behind a wire (in theory) would have got a lot of grazing days especially if I had gone the "typical NZ" route of baling the grass off and spacing the bales out to be grazed as a buffer - and use the cattle to cultivate the residues in.
Say, for arguments sake, this 5.5 acre field produced 40 bales of peas and 18 bales of grass - there's 1461 cow grazing days at 10kgDM/day.
which due to the dry didn't really occur! It was cut on the longest day.However, a winter pea crop would really be an ideal grazing crop for the spring, cattle behind a wire (in theory) would have got a lot of grazing days especially if I had gone the "typical NZ" route of baling the grass off and spacing the bales out to be grazed as a buffer - and use the cattle to cultivate the residues in.
Say, for arguments sake, this 5.5 acre field produced 40 bales of peas and 18 bales of grass - there's 1461 cow grazing days at 10kgDM/day.