Today at work

Gerbert

Member
Location
Dutch biblebelt
Putting bales out for out wintering dry cows (240) and young stock. Approximately 1000 round bale hay as silage cannot be used on this site as pheasants and partridge's are reared here in their thousands as part of a shoot and they destroy plastic wrap
Do you put a hotline next to them? Otherwist you must get an awful lot of waste I guess? Also, is there any grass left in the end or do you reseed it?
 

Breckland Boy

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Breckland
Ploughing and drilling barley today.
This field was due to be beet but I can't / won't grow at £19/t.
Rain from yesterday and last night has helped but still powder dry in places.
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marcot

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Bury St Edmunds
Ploughing and drilling barley today.
This field was due to be beet but I can't / won't grow at £19/t.
Rain from yesterday and last night has helped but still powder dry in places.View attachment 727678 View attachment 727678
How do you get on filling the minimat with seed?
Used one years ago in the days of 50kg bags ....have bad memories of stumbling across the headland carrying those bags to the drill ...[emoji33]
 

JCfarmer

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
warks

Breckland Boy

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Breckland
How do you get on filling the minimat with seed?
Used one years ago in the days of 50kg bags ....have bad memories of stumbling across the headland carrying those bags to the drill ...[emoji33]


Filling the drill is the biggest issue with using the minimat.
I normally use 500kg bags and it's a fag to re tie the bottom string. Better than lugging 50kg bags though.
 

marcot

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Bury St Edmunds
Filling the drill is the biggest issue with using the minimat.
I normally use 500kg bags and it's a fag to re tie the bottom string. Better than lugging 50kg bags though.
You've done well to have mastered the art of tying off big bags ....whenever I want a few kg's to finish off a field ....I end up with the whole lot in the drill and feel like I've tried to wrestle a grizzly bear !!
 

kill

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
South West
Do you put a hotline next to them? Otherwist you must get an awful lot of waste I guess? Also, is there any grass left in the end or do you reseed it?
Customer fences 11 bales a day + grass and up ends bales and pulls netwrap off and let's cows into that paddock and also slides a water trough into the paddock.

Any remaining waste feed is cleared away in the spring and if ground needs power harrowing and reseeding it will get it
 

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