pine_guy
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- Location
- North Cumbria
Zero grazing.
- Thread starter Nh6050
- Start date
Ours at the wkend
That's like a summers day!
It's been a cracking spell
Go and grab 2 box fulls for tomorrow's feed. Then maybe 2 more for Wednesday, then it could be time for a wash off and grease up till feb....
happycows
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- Location
- North Devon Cornwall border
It's about the same for me, however i doubt i'll be going in february. My fields have never finished the year with so little grass in. Slurry going back on too keep lagoon down but growth has slowed right up now.
I'm just counting my blessings i've gone this long.
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Scholsey
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- Location
- Herefordshire
We had a late start due to ground conditions which meant early grass got away from me and it was early June before we started cutting nice young stuff, we had to stop for best part of a month mid summer but I would say this dry kind autumn has made up for it.
Years of experience have taught me you are in the ideal position. With an application rate of about 2000gal/acre(slurry) growth will still be sufficient(soil temp 8-10 giving 25/18kg)to give a heathy winter cover , don’t be surprised if your cutting late Feb . The grass quantities might be less but quality will be much higher( no winter residues) . All weather dependant of course but a rare case of “ having the cake and eating it” well played fella[emoji106]
Suckndiesel
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- Location
- Newtownards
Zero grazing coming to an end here as well in the next few days. Cows still on half grass half silage diet at the moment . Few pics from today, field that needed cleaned off, one or two leaves in the load. Dry matter content wouldn't be fantastic either!
- Location
- Northern Ireland
Nice parkland. Mountstewart?
Suckndiesel
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- Location
- Newtownards
Rosemount estate Greyabbey
happycows
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- Location
- North Devon Cornwall border
The final scat of 2018 zerograzing.
Those horrid super singles haven’t done too much damage.
ollie989898
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Its will all drain away 2x a day mind, so not all lost.Cripes, that bottom field of yours has some water standing on it!
Limefield
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- Location
- Northern Ireland
Scholsey, i see from your picture that you are lifting with a Lely Tigo silage wagon?
How do you find it -reliable, etc - i bought one myself recently for silage and seems fairly robust wagon.
How do you find it -reliable, etc - i bought one myself recently for silage and seems fairly robust wagon.
Scholsey
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Really pleased, bought it from my contractor who is also on here, genuine machine that couldn’t have been looked after any better, have a local fitter who HAD the Lely dealership 2 miles from me which was a massive thing behind my choice, didn’t fancy a Italian/Irish Zero grazer that I need to use every day 8 months a year without fast reliable back up. Also so handy being able to double up with my contractor for silaging.
Limefield
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- Location
- Northern Ireland
I was nervous buying it as there aren’t many about here but it seems to eat up the grass at silage time and pack in serious loads. I plan to use it a bit next year for zero grazing. I bought mine off an old neighbour who only used it for maybe 50 acres and it’s like new.
Hopefully plan to use it for many years and keep it well but was worried that maybe it wouldn’t be reliable if there aren’t many about.
Think they are really a mengele rotobull which were tough German machines I think?
Hopefully plan to use it for many years and keep it well but was worried that maybe it wouldn’t be reliable if there aren’t many about.
Think they are really a mengele rotobull which were tough German machines I think?
Contractor booked to dribble slurry over all the farm 15 jan weather premitting. Then as soon as soil warms a bit early feb get the sugar shaker out. Then the zg hopefully mid feb.