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Dairying. Stocking rate on Grazing platform

  • 25-04-2012 3:20pm
    #1
    st1979
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 936 ✭✭✭


    Just wondering what stocking rate you guys run on the grazing platform all season. At the moment I am running at 1.6/acre with silage been taken off from rented land. Later on i will probably reduce it by putting youngstock on the silage ground from august onwards.


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  • #2
    rahin man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65 ✭✭rahin man


    Any hassle with nitrates at that stocking rate? Do you get maps with the rented ground..


  • #3
    st1979
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 936 ✭✭✭st1979


    Yea rented ground has maps overall stocking rate is a bit above 1. i am more wondering how far stocked are some people on the 'homefarm' by using the rented land for silage. I see the lads in the north with very highly stocked farms around the parlour by feeding some meal and maize while at grass.


  • #4
    Tipp Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,025 ✭✭✭Tipp Man


    st1979 wrote: »
    Yea rented ground has maps overall stocking rate is a bit above 1. i am more wondering how far stocked are some people on the 'homefarm' by using the rented land for silage. I see the lads in the north with very highly stocked farms around the parlour by feeding some meal and maize while at grass.

    Feeding meal and maize alright - but at what cost?? To spend more hours in the milking parlour??

    I think if you go too high on the stocking rate in the grazing ground you will create grass managment problems at the start and end of year


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