Stubble Turnips - Grazing Rates (£)

[Anymulewilldo]

I’ve been asked my rate this time. Honest answer and the one I have given out is “I don’t know, I’ll give you as much as I can but it all depends on the sheep price” good solid outfits growing for me and they are happy I’ll be straight with them

 

[Mc115reed]

What would be a headage rate for stubble turnips this coming season?

Would 80p per head per week be about right?

Shepard has to electric fence and look them for that too?

I’m charging £1.30 for fully shepherded turnips this year and I’m taking a hit on it, anyone doing it for 80p and shepherding them too must have free fertiliser and land/ diesel to plant them

 

[unlacedgecko]

I’m charging £1.30 for fully shepherded turnips this year and I’m taking a hit on it, anyone doing it for 80p and shepherding them too must have free fertiliser and land/ diesel to plant them

I don't tack on turnips. Just arable cover crops, so yeah the feed is pretty much free. But I have to graze it in accordance with the landlords soil health goals.

 

[Mc115reed]

I don't tack on turnips. Just arable cover crops, so yeah the feed is pretty much free. But I have to graze it in accordance with the landlords soil health goals.

£1 on grass and cover crops I’m charging, landlords want to big of a cut this year too cover establishment costs… can’t blame them really with fuel, seed & wearing metal double the price it used to be

 

[Derrick Hughes]

£1 on grass and cover crops I’m charging, landlords want to big of a cut this year too cover establishment costs… can’t blame them really with fuel, seed & wearing metal double the price it used to be

What sort of cover crops are Yiu grazing , apart from brasicas that is ,

 

[Mc115reed]

What sort of cover crops are Yiu grazing , apart from brasicas that is ,

Mustard, vetch, oats, kale, rye, raddish, phacilia in various different combinations depending which farmer it is, where they get the seed from, what they’re crop is after and what they’re trying to achieve ..

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Mustard, vetch, oats, kale, rye, raddish, phacilia in various different combinations depending which farmer it is, where they get the seed from, what they’re crop is after and what they’re trying to achieve ..

Mustard Kale and Raddish we can't use due to club root

 

[Mc115reed]

Mustard Kale and Raddish we can't use due to club root

Some farms it’s no problem here, others it is.. that’s why I try to stay out of the cover crops because they know what will and won’t grow or cause a problem for the next crop

 

[mghley]

What would be a headage rate for stubble turnips this coming season?

Would 80p per head per week be about right?

Shepard has to electric fence and look them for that too?

I’m charging £1.30 for fully shepherded turnips this year and I’m taking a hit on it, anyone doing it for 80p and shepherding them too must have free fertiliser and land/ diesel to plant them

I read the above differently, so @jackrussell101 would charge 80p for growing the turnips and @Mc115reed you would charge £1.30 so getting 50p to reflect your fences and shepherding.
probably not too unfair on either party ??

 

[Mc115reed]

I read the above differently, so @jackrussell101 would charge 80p for growing the turnips and @Mc115reed you would charge £1.30 so getting 50p to reflect your fences and shepherding.
probably not too unfair on either party ??

Oh yeah just re-read the ops post I didn’t realise he was growing them for somebody too graze…

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Oh yeah just re-read the ops post I didn’t realise he was growing them for somebody too graze…

So does grazing cover crops leave more fertility that chopping them in ?

 

[thorpe]

So does grazing cover crops leave more fertility that chopping them in ?

yes!

 

[Mc115reed]

So does grazing cover crops leave more fertility that chopping them in ?

More fertility & money saved in diesel and kit needed too mulch it up before drilling

 

[Derrick Hughes]

What I've seen on trial work , but no personal experience to back it up it makes no difference either way ,although stock lost out if there was any compaction , surprised methough
It's was not on finance mind
Surely you would lose out over grazing as nutrients would be lost breaking the crop down in the soil that animals are doing for you ,

 

[DanM]

So does grazing cover crops leave more fertility that chopping them in ?

Not more fertility (the sheep will remove some), however grazing the cover crop makes the nutrients more readily available to the next crop. A crop that is mulched/crimped/topped will use nitrogen to break it down

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Not more fertility (the sheep will remove some), however grazing the cover crop makes the nutrients more readily available to the next crop. A crop that is mulched/crimped/topped will use nitrogen to break it down

Yes that's what I was thinking, perhaps they did not take nitrogen into account