Grazing 2021

The reality in the west of the country on all average to reasonable land after another days rain and if the wether stays unsettled 30 of them cows would have 30 acres ploughed in a fortnight .In the east it would be a different story probably .In the south west here we would have at least 2 inches of rain every week with the last 5 weeks so the rain ie taking its toll at this stage ,same story every year dam lucky to get to the 1st of november and any day more is a bonus grazing for adult cattle

Yep, I agree with Eastern too.

There's frost now on May day and hardly any in October November.

Im farming wet land too, but this year, more than ever I'll be takeing every day's grazeing now I get, and will aim for a may month turn out if so be it.

The people giveing out about calender farming regarding spreading slurry, contradict themselves, with their determination of calender grazeing.

At the end of the day eastern has a valid point for his farm and lots more like him.

Land that gets damaged now can get a run of a chain harrow in spring when ground condition allow. Then a fast run with an empty land roller.

A small bit of damage is not an issue but too much will take a lot longer to recover next spring.

All stock out full time still, using cows to get thru as much as I can but weather nearly beating me. Have the wettest ground grazed but the rain ain't coming in small bits and pieces either. In calf heifers will be housed by the wkend and calves the following week weather dependant. If the end of the week comes bad and cows are forced in I may use the remaining ground for calves. Have only 5 empty cows to offload and possibly a bull or two.

Just on the talk of grazing by calender etc, it is just about having enough grass in spring. If spring demand is low its not such an issue but if you are regularly grazing into December and can't get stock out till april/ May then the main reason is that the farm has been grazed too tight along with any damage taking longer to recover in terms of moisture.

And it could be game over very quickly here lol, horrible day, 5hours left and still 16mm of rain due!! But fantastic back end so far, a month ago I didn't think I'd ever get through the wedge that was in front of the cows, but always large enough demand this time of the year, and AFC dropping fast enough now. I can't complain because I made no real effort to slow down the cows, only fed half a dozen bales until today. Cows staying in tonight, and if I get to the 15th Nov with some sort of on off grazing with the milkers that will be good enough.

Still trundling along. Will probably start housing from the start of the second week in November. Stock are in 4 main bunches. Biggest is 24 stores grazing off slight heavy ground. A few land drains went into it about 6-7 years ago it took 3-4 years to properly dry out bit it is holding up well at present.

21 in a other bunch are being strip grazed through a heavy cover still good clean out. Another bunch of 12 are going similarly. There is 8 finishing cattle in a paddock with decent cover they are on 6 kgs/ day of barley/ maize/ hulls. There is some hitting 30 months the third week in November so will move them around then

That's different, do you not give them Cal Mag. you're lucky if you don't just find them dead especially if there's older calves on them

No, a pump on the water pipe, it'd suck a certain amount of the flomag for every 100gals water that went through the pipe, the flomag intake was adjustable, you could turn it up in wet weather, but I never need ed to

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Heifers in, cows in today and tonight prob tomorrow as well, some amount of rain falling since 4 this morning. I think someone measuring nearby had it over 50mm so far and still at it.

I have plenty grass at the moment and ground conditions are still very good,hope to leave them out till the end of November

My grass is gone a bit strong if this is not grazed down tight will this effect quality next spring? They are happy away on it and grazing it well so far so hopefully they will skin it,

I have about ten acres like that this year. I am strip grazing most of it. Something I am not mad about but I am getting good clean outs so farm. Grass will be a week to ten days later next spring but quality will be ok. As well as I graze silage paddocks in the spring it will sort any issue. There may be 1-2 acres of the ten there is an issue with but most will be ok.

Correct pH is helpful as well.

How would correct ph sort this problem? If possible would you mind uploading a photo of what you are grazing?

would type of weight gain would you be exspecting on good grass this time of year?

Why cant you strip graze, is ground condititions not good enough

It’s a very big field and it would be very awkward, it’s the only field I can’t strip graze,I had a similar problem last year and it seemed ok in the spring and they skinned it in the spring just worried about quality in the spring time, they are happy in it so it might be ok k