What are lads feeding these days to calved cows in full-time. I'm 6kg and fairly good silage to 460kg/Ms cows
I’ve heard bits similar re vaccine ….cant see myself doing it but I will be using a pour on for flys every 4/6 weeks from mid may
paper won’t refuse ink and he needs to keep peddling that sort of shite to keep the job ….often wonder do these lads believe what they put to print …Aidan brennans bit on meal feeding and nutritionists recommendations to feed a cow was another roll the eyes article
My father used to say, if you can't travel the ground with a two wheel drive, the ground isn't suitable for fertilizer.
That was in the good old days, when you were told to whiten the place with urea after Christmas.
It's non stop raining down here, I see a few trying to get cows out on dry patch's for a hour or two.
It's a lot of work to unsettle the cows, and it's not great to rotavate the end of feb as grass won't thrive for the rest of the spring.
B.fat 4.13% Prot 3.56%, Milk Urea 15 here atm. Grass silage, meal, Grass in diet.
I haven't a clue what I'm doing re blue tongue vaccine or not. Vets in webinars saying to do it by 17th march and another booster after before breeding season starts. Farmers in France saying the vaccine is nearly worse than the virus.
They Just threw down a few random figures on a Friday lunchtime on the way out the door it looks like. No accountability whatsoever.
not sure how we’re supposed to increase stocking rate to 2.5 either given half the country is now at 220kg nitrates limit
Lads are expected to increase the days at grass by over a month, from 256 to 290. Sure we’d all do that if the weather played ball and grass kept growing.
“Spur roadways and all your other tricks from the tool box” won’t stop the rain.
Any mention of the accuracy of data they’re using? Or is it just what lads are reporting themselves to Teagasc advisors?
What a ridiculous document. I'd love to see how much his team gets paid for that crap. 600kg meal and under 500kgMs. Every line gets more ridiculous than the one before it.
Theres that much grass in fields bar u get stuck damage isnt seen but serious damage is being done i cant walk my land.
You'd hope Joe got lazy and used chat gpt to come up with these fairy-tales, 16 hours labour a cow per year is the standout one by 2030 as a key preformance target.
They spread for us on an outfarm 2 weeks ago. No bother travelling and it wouldn't be the golden vale. Fergal Connor drew slurry from home to it with the trucks the week before.
Sorted.
Grassmen have done a video with Jack Farrell spreading with his CAT Challenger…. he was spreading for 2 farmers in my parish a couple weeks ago… he was spreading paddocks for one lad so alot of turning… and silage fields for 2nd farmer and in fairness considering the ground conditions and the land he was spreading wouldnt be the best he did little or no harm when turning… in fact passing them fields now you wouldnt even know there was slurry spread there…
Is there a a cab on your Fendt??
he was a very wise man. I’d say everyone will go home this evening and get out the grinder and cut the cab off.
These machines with track would do serious damage when turning but sure lads think its a great job a wise man once told me a cab should bever be on a tractor .
We've a lovely soft field called The Black Meadow!! Maybe we should get rid of the generational trauma and rename it The Wet Field.
That bit is the very best I have. It got fertiliser recently. In a few days time when that is grazed the rest won't be as pretty.
There's a slope on that ground and south facing I think makes it and there's no water coming in from neighbouring land.
Locally though land would be the same as that on other farms. There's a farm a half mile away and it'd be only a few weeks the farmer would have cows in for in the winter not grazing. There's just the right slope and kind of hill on his farm. We don't really burn up in summer or get it too savage that we can't get grazing. But you'd still need your roadways and paddocks obviously. There's a small number of cows there anyway so they'd do feck all damage. Not like 300 cows going through a gapway.
Just Wait until the drought comes....
That’s some land you have.
We were doing a bit of maintenance work this week with a digger. The man that had the digger is same contractor that spreads our slurry.
The tractor that is on the slurry cord is on tracks, it would travel any sort of wet land, no matter what.
He told us after driving across one of the fields in the digger this week that under no circumstances could he try travel the land here now even with the tractor on tracks. He said he’d be swallowed.
The cows will probably end up going out in April.
And before any of you ask — the farm has been drained, redrained and drained some more 😂😂
Boggles my mind how good some people’s land is in comparison that ye can have cows out now 😂😂
I don't even look at the forecasts anymore. Well vaguely. If it's a good day and it's judged suitable, they are out.
I’ve them out every day at the moment. When the weather drys up or heats up a small bit at all, we benefit quicker here in the south east. Not sure the week ahead is looking great thou
Waiting on two still out of a batch of twelve.
@Say my name did you get your blue cards yet
Regrowth from grazing a few days ago.
A turning worm? 13 degrees Celsius. Cows shut out.
Balls
I'm not thanking that. Commiserations.
Sorry to hear that. Seems to be little hope of keeping it out.
