blue5000 wrote: » How tall did it get? Thinking of growing some this year too.
Greengrass1 wrote: » Sowed it last yr. Powerful crop of stuff of it. If you go back through jersey101 account you might see the photos of it. I'll see if I still have them on my phoneIts a member of the beet family so the more p smd k you put on it the bigger crop you will get. I hear beet compound does a good job on it
Damo810 wrote: » Did you have to apply sodium to it aswell?
Greengrass1 wrote: » Sowed it last yr. Powerful crop of stuff of it. If you go back through jersey101 account you might see the photos of it. I'll see if I still have them on my phone Its a member of the beet family so the more p smd k you put on it the bigger crop you will get. I hear beet compound does a good job on it
milkprofit wrote: » Can u detail sowing tilling fert etc details
Greengrass1 wrote: » Was a field we cut a soft wood forest out off Ploughed it. Harrowed it. And put outf seed with spinner and rolled it. Put out the fert that was reckomened. Can't remember what or how much but it was a compound . They reckomemd you too dress it also too. And if you sow in in may/June and graze early it will regrow
trixi2011 wrote: » Did you milk off it gg ?
Greengrass1 wrote: » Ye we did. Found cows did better on fodder rape. But good all the same
trixi2011 wrote: » grazed kale with milkers before great job but you wouldn't want to push them to hard on it. A lot of farms starting to graze fodder beet in nz before I left. Suppose to be the answer to lack of winter grazing
Greengrass1 wrote: » Ye lot of lass doing that around me now too. How do yr find being home again? Welcome back
sandydan wrote: » any copper deficiency issues, or do you supplement with copper or iodine anyway, had issue a few years back after rape was almost complete winter feed for a few winters , just a remark vet made about it,
Greengrass1 wrote: » No issues. They were only on it for 2-3hrs in the day and back up in shed for silage. And minerals in water
sandydan wrote: » different feeding regime. i had to feed 1oz per head monosodium phosphate to correct phos deficiency in cows, actually got 25kg bag and miller added to 4ton ration when blending sorted empties problem in 6 weeks.costly lesson.added iodine to drinking water troughs too and cooper and selenium bolus. i was feeding hi-phos minerals at time and took blood samples but
trixi2011 wrote: » You would be safer to give them a few kg of silage r straw before letting them on to the crop. Can cause bloat, frost on the leaves isn't good either.
restive wrote: » Do you undersow it with grass? How much of a problem is frost. I would be thinking of strip grazing it in Nov/Dec/Jan?
Mooooo wrote: » Sorry for pulling up old thread, but has anyone set redstart at this time of year? What kind of yields would be expected? For yearlings/ maiden heifers have 6 acres burned off hope to set next week, if I could get 30 or so yearlings on it from Nov to Jan or thereabouts
Danzy wrote: » A friend gave me a bag of Redstart Kale, about 8kgs so about 2 acres worth. He had too much ordered so he gave it to me. So I dont want to burn off ground, was wondering if I lightly harrowed a field to break the top and just broadcast it, would it take reasonably well. Not expecting much. The field is a very dry one so I use it to stretch out grazing at the back end of the year and it is grazed bare at the moment. Not going to go all out but if it filled things out abit, could be nice.
