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That’s the last load for this year cut couldn’t have asked for a better year with the zero grazer being our 1st year with her she has pretty much herself paid off already
I’d much rather they went and got their own, but it’s bailing me out of a forage short fall from the dry summer. An hour out of my day, every day, diesel, maintenance, depreciation etc. The maths I can’t get my head round, is if it’s cheaper to zero graze outlying land, rather than silage it, and make silage of ground closer to home.
We’ll we’re milking 400 cows on a 90 acre grazing block so the alternative to the zero grazing is meal and silage for the rest of them which being mostly autumn calving is too dear to do come a stage of the year
Depends on your cow breeding, with high yielding holsteins it just doesn’t work so well. We are only sitting around 7400l here so works well for us.
As a simple rule I work on 1ppl grazing, 2.5ppl Zerograze, 5ppl grass silage. Everyone’s figures will vary but you get the principle.
i loved it, my system didnt
Roll on next season with expensive fertiliser, a meal price rise for summer and an uninspiring milk price, zero grazing will be getting hailed by the great and the good in consultancy circles as the “salvation” of milk producers
Reinvent the wheelRoll on next season with expensive fertiliser, a meal price rise for summer and an uninspiring milk price, zero grazing will be getting hailed by the great and the good in consultancy circles as the “salvation” of milk producers
Ive always found silage after august to be useless would u find zero grazed grass better
Yes definitely
Hard to say as we start in spring we’ll have a batch outside batch on zero grazed and batch on TMR then as ones dry off they’ll be less in the TMR group until there’s none come the end of July. And when we start to feed silage again it’s to fresh calved cows in September time
So my juscafresa is out of action. Couldn’t get the mower to go. Finally got is striped and a drive shaft has snapped. I think probably as a result of a bearing going. Anyway, just wondering if this part is common to any other machines in the uk. It’s a section that allows the mower to be engaged or not when the PTO is running. Maybe @idgni may have experience, I know you warned me last year
will be contacting juscafresa direct for help, but may be slow via email.
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yup we’ve been in there!!
The paintwork of the outer housing is slightly different, suggesting someone else has been in here before
From memory there is a taper in the shaft, can’t remember exactly but had issues with it , think it sheared a keyway or something, then had issues getting it to go deep enough to engage.
did you used to get your parts direct off juscafresa?Dealer and repair of original if possible , / local engineering workshopThe paintwork of the outer housing is slightly different, suggesting someone else has been in here before
Looks more on it than there is as it’s headed more than I’d like, cows muck is quite stiff on it. Milks holding and quality seems to have lifted, but only day three today. But we’ve dropped a 1kg+ of high protein blend and dry cow silage which we’ve been buffering them with. So I think I’m quits in.
We use an old double chop forager, blow it either onto a feed trailer or into an old feeder box and then feed out. Works a treat!
