Whats stalling your grass growth?

Which is affecting your grass the greatest atm

  • Low Temperatures

    Votes: 68 35.1%
  • Lack of Moisture

    Votes: 13 6.7%
  • Both of the above!

    Votes: 113 58.2%

  • Total voters
    194

Henarar

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Somerset
Just graze really slowly, thankfully we have the cover to do that.
Work on water effectiveness, ie we probably grew 4000kgDM/ha on under 40mm of rainfall, where a faster round you might grow ½ of that or less.

All the dairies in the valley are drying off or have dried off, bar one who will milk til late May

we seldom get a dry April, often we go dry but it's generally always run the cherries by this stage
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it will rain, it always does!
not everywhere
 

Sid

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
South Molton
Where there is cover the grass is growing, but a reduced rate.

Anywhere where white lice or has been taken down tight by cattle is struggling.

Looking down in valley at some grazed paddocks that have had frost and they have that yellow tinge like they have had a splash of roundup!
 

Sid

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
South Molton
Just graze really slowly, thankfully we have the cover to do that.
Work on water effectiveness, ie we probably grew 4000kgDM/ha on under 40mm of rainfall, where a faster round you might grow ½ of that or less.

All the dairies in the valley are drying off or have dried off, bar one who will milk til late May

we seldom get a dry April, often we go dry but it's generally always run the cherries by this stage
View attachment 955652

it will rain, it always does!
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Always interesting to look at now and again.
 

Hesstondriver

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Huntingdon
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this was my grass at the end of December and again in mid February. So it’s gone flood stress to just waking up & very short of N too cold nights and now dry and cracking up . its more yellow and purple than lush green.
 

Whitepeak

Member
Livestock Farmer
I'm not getting too worried, yet!
Mrs Whitepeak is itching to turn all the cows out, but I keep reminding her that it's still only mid April and we could still have snow! The fact it's warm and dry is what's making her want them out. End of April/beginning of May is usually when most cows go out up here.
It is very dry, only 13mm so far in April, however March and Feb were about average.
 

Henarar

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Somerset
It will when the weather people get around to working on all the wishes received so far 🙄

never wish for weather, more will be along soon enough
there are some places it don't rain
not here thankfully, we just need it to warm up as there is plenty of moisture under the cover, having said that I don't think it will warm up properly till we get a southwesterly and it will rain then anyway
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 79 42.0%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 66 35.1%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 16.0%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 7 3.7%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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