Ya but you are safe enough....
I wouldn't use 99%of proven Irish bulls 😉 😏
Im not sure i think they have a quick look but i often seen a pic of bull dams and there the sort of cows id use beef on alot of bull dams are one hit wonders no generations of gd udders temprament fertility and milk is spot on in ebi but what gd is a good milker highly fertile if shes a crap bag and kicks like mad.
I used a proven friesian in the past over 20k daughters old bull.Slow milkers and kicked like mad so thats irish daughter proven for u.
First 2 dairy heifer calves on the farm here. Fleckvieh x decent ebi Friesan.Sort of a good will gesture from a man we buy calves off most years for my OH and daughter.
good luck to one of our posters today selling his cows in new ross
Not a dairy man but dower house farm ( whom I like watching) has given up on multi species and red clover. Said the multi species was definitely not drought resistant and the red clover silage was too expensive. I see one or 2 lads still sowing multi species but surely its over now on commercial farm level? I never grew either here. Iv enough docks!!
It was a scam from day one. I notice there is a special on reseeding in this weeks IFJ. No mention of multi species or red clover. And to think that rubbish was being pushed by Teagasc. They are a disgrace.
Youd wonder.
Couldn’t agree more and I’ve made that point on here a few times before.
There’s only one thing multi species will give you and that’s a big chemical bill a few years after you sow it to try and kill all the docks and weeds you’ll end up with.
If I was offered a field of multi species for free I wouldn’t take it because it’d still be too expensive at that. I baled some for a lad last year that got strong for grazing and saw it when he was feeding it out in the winter time. You’d find better feed in a dung heap. Where the cattle were grazing the paddock beside where we were baling there was a strip about 50 foot wide along one ditch that was just grass and the cattle had that skinned to the clay before they’d even think about grazing the multi species.
ThE best way to say what I thnk of clover is its not in our plans again .ever.but I think the big problem looming for many is we we won't be able to sustain the stocking rates we were used to going foward
Foliar urea is the answer
I have been thinking lately ill have to call to see how it works for ye
Didn't the government pull the red clover and MSS schemes too?
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The problem with what you're describing is down to the fact that the cheapest grass seed available are European varieties bred to survive and give a large cut of poor quality hay where they might have 3-4 months growing season per year.
Seed merchants sold the cheapest seed for a very high price while no farmers actually bothered their arse to check what were they buying as if there was going to be some sort of magical effect that would override the need to use only quality varieties
But shure it was a joke anyway when you couldn't spray for weeds. You wouldn't sow ryegrass without weed spray.
I saw one of the first places to sow multispecies. And the soil was turned into compost. I never went the route myself but all the studies mention the soil accumulating more carbon from the different species together.
You'd really want to be oversowing with something like a tow n fert and zero disturbance if one was worried about weeds.
There's a neighbour with the driest farm in the country and they've bought in big time into the regenerative movement. They've a lot of the farm now sown to mss. They have a lot of forage atm. They'd take everything on board though like long rotations, etc. Really buying into it.
Stupid to avoid spraying just to have plantain. No-one ever thought that through especially when most of the benefit can be got just by mixing grass
Well Teagasc were trying to please Ryan and Hackett to keep the gravy train rolling. Same with protected urea.
a lot of the issue there previously was the overgrazing/golfball grazing. Grass grows grass as they say
Is It alright to golf ball graze in 12 hour blocks? Its the tight grazing of regrowth in the second or third day on the paddock an issue. Takes grass longer to recover?
Yes that and golf ball grazing year round is the problem. You’re pinching the cows to do it and taking a toll on the grass plant
Don't agree - you have to tailor the seed mix for your own farm in terms of soil and climate. Most didn't bother. I sow quality tested clover seed thats far more drought resistant than any PRG or combination(last years spring drought proving the point). Same goes for herbal elements with deeper roots, even Dandelions tick the box on that
PS - In my experience the greatest land to grow docks is soils already saturated with nitrates, which is mainly intensive dairy paddocks and silage grounds
the greatest place to grow docks is anywhere that hasn’t had a post emergence spray.
Guy in the video said he was going to push stocking rate and grass would suit the system better. He would be into soil health on the tillage side of things. I find him interesting anyway.
Wtf is golfball grazing?
Exactly. However it’s hard to lay the blame on farmers when the only grass varieties available are/were pure shyte. Gouging and maximizing profit from importers is what’s happening.
For the majority of lads drought isn't a problem and then for only a short part of the year. Why fix a problem that doesn't exist to create another one. And anyway a lot of the drought issue is because of management. Cut up the paddocks in Spring and lob on a good dollop of nitrogen. Why would grass bother putting down roots to look for nutrients.
at least I’m not the only one asking that😏😏
