Keepgrowing wrote: » Sir, You haven’t a phucking clue, let it go. Passed you way on Sat not your place specially but ye think you know drought. Drive east for 40 mins and you see that the advise your freely dishing out is pure bull shyte
Coolfresian wrote: » Can u just give it a rest seriously. We r all different circumstances. I'm further east than most here and Mahoney's advice applies to me. It's useful to some ppl.
freedominacup wrote: » Are you serious? A bit of gentle nighttime reading. Hopefully I'll get through it before the 2019 one hits the presses.
Buford T. Justice V wrote: » I was at a Heavy Land demo farm today, seriously impressive work being done by Teagasc atm in getting heavy land producing grass. An interesting point he made was how difficult it was last year to get cows to eat out around dung pats last year so there was grass samples taken and they found the grass nearer the dung pats had Iron levels hugely higher than expected and this was affecting palatability. It asn't a problem this year at all and he has bought a grass harrow to spread out the dung so the grass should be more palatable after the dung is spread out more during wet weather.
Base price wrote: » Years ago you would see farmers harrowing fields (rotational set stocking) with a chain harrow to break up the dung pats. I was one of the first tractor jobs I used to do as a young one.
Buford T. Justice V wrote: » At the risk of starting WWIII, the latest Greenfield update...https://twitter.com/dfogarty6/status/1014583242027163649
kevthegaff wrote: » From what I remember greenfield was a pretty open site, I'd imagine it has dried out even quicker than other farms in that area. Are they buying In all winter feed
Mooooo wrote: » Hard to know 're winter feed. I have maize ordered since spring so at least that's doing fine. Rang the tillage man growing it and everything else is struggling really,. Wholecrop may be an option but you'd want to know what your buying as grain yield may well be down. It totally depends on how long this lasts really. If rain came here by end of July I may yet make as much silage as second cut may have yielded, it will be managing it and getting it made as grass will come in a burst again. In the middle of tb testing again so dunno what way I'll be stocked till 2 weeks time so will assess things again then
greysides wrote: » How's everyone getting on with the KT? Anyone finding it useful? Deadline is the end of July.
mahoney_j wrote: » It is what it is lots feed going in but a big hole going to be left in winter feed bank .wonder what the plan is to gather enough feed for winter as in all likelihood there’s bound to be more weather woes during summer and back end farm will take longer to recover when rain comes too as moisture deficit so deep and picking any spare fodder or feed up in that part of country for such a large herd won’t be simple
freedominacup wrote: » Mooooo wrote: » Hard to know 're winter feed. I have maize ordered since spring so at least that's doing fine. Rang the tillage man growing it and everything else is struggling really,. Wholecrop may be an option but you'd want to know what your buying as grain yield may well be down. It totally depends on how long this lasts really. If rain came here by end of July I may yet make as much silage as second cut may have yielded, it will be managing it and getting it made as grass will come in a burst again. In the middle of tb testing again so dunno what way I'll be stocked till 2 weeks time so will assess things again then Buy wholecrop by the tonne and test it. Fairest on everyone.
Burning Tires wrote: » I think they should consider culling/selling any animal that has any issue. If they had 5% less mouths to feed for the rest of the year, it might help massively. It looks like David the manager might have that idea if hes condition scoreing and looking at milk test results.
Say my name wrote: » To risk the ire of ... What's the difference in farms that normally import most of their cows feed onto their farms in a normal year and grass based farms that have now been forced into that situation. Same thing isn't it. I don't see why one should destock and not the other. Maybe I'm reading this wrong and they're all destocking. Maybe there's no destocking going on at all. Still doesn't sit well with me when comfortable people call for one's under stress to destock. But then this is a free and warts and all forum.
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