Not the worst plan either, is it though? How are his cows milking? At least he will have a first cut.I agree but farmers need to start dealing with where we are today not this obession that seems to be building with next winter.
Before i'm accused of failing to plan or planning to fail bollixology i was on a neighbours farm last night the cows are running around on a twelve day rotation trying to graze covers of max 6 to 700kgs and getting 12 kgs of ration with no other feeding of any kind left in the yard.
Yet he has 40acres of silage stopped on the milking block with cover of 1500+ on it the obvious thing to do is graze a portion of it to get himself out of trouble but he wouldn't hear of it.
All he spoke of was silage,silage and more silage for next winter.
This weather will turn(i hope) and grass will grow over the ditches yet(i hope) if not we are all fcuked anyways.
Would lads get much grass off knock airport?
would you rather something or nothing?
Were you ever in knock airport?
Would you have a hovercraft to spare its in the middle of the bog on a mountain!!!;)
would you rather something or nothing?
would that grass covered in jet fuel fumes be ok to feed to cattle?
would you rather the beasts starve?
was just asking?
would you let them starve or feed them something that will kill them?
I agree but farmers need to start dealing with where we are today not this obession that seems to be building with next winter.
Before i'm accused of failing to plan or planning to fail bollixology i was on a neighbours farm last night the cows are running around on a twelve day rotation trying to graze covers of max 6 to 700kgs and getting 12 kgs of ration with no other feeding of any kind left in the yard.
Yet he has 40acres of silage stopped on the milking block with cover of 1500+ on it the obvious thing to do is graze a portion of it to get himself out of trouble but he wouldn't hear of it.
All he spoke of was silage,silage and more silage for next winter.
This weather will turn(i hope) and grass will grow over the ditches yet(i hope) if not we are all fcuked anyways.
Jesus just reread jpts post and realised there getting 12 kgs of ration allready,
That and 12 day old grass will kill cows without roughage. now looking like he will have no choice but graze at least some of the silage ground.
grass really starting to move down here on the coast recording growth rate of 60kg ,staying buffer feeding for another week starting to close more silage ground .as larry says cows milking very well
ya but isnt the coast nearly always a month a head of the middle of the country?
nice ground allright, grazing platform at 5 cows ha was in a lot of trouble 2 weeks ago ,would be in a spot of bother in a very dry yr too we are grass based but use the diet feeder at the shoulders of the yearIt's nearly the first of May,and still buffer feeding down there,and probably nice dry ground too.:whistling: