Landcare Officer Joanna Wren
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Reply to Grazing Through Spring in a Mediterranean Environment
Cheers Mark, I will probably move them onto the stockpile feed when they finish in this current paddock at the end of the week .. in the meantime will try for a higher density stocking rate in the cells.
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Reply to Grazing Through Spring in a Mediterranean Environment
Admittedly I have destocked to the point that mob grazing is challenging .. but this is the best I could get in terms of utilisation after a 2 day graze with our sheep – they are not very interested in eating much beyond the top third of the grass with more trampled than eaten. So should I force them by keeping them in the cell for longer or do…
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Kate Tarrant posted an update in the group
2 months agoTrees on Farms 2 months agoRowan Reid the Master Tree Grower has just started up his own podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/heartwood-podcast/id1770378517
Also available on Spotify & YouTube.. first one is with David Jenkins from Bridgetown..
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Listen to Rowan Reid's Heartwood Podcast podcast on Apple Podcasts.
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Reply to Mob Grazing & Livestock Nutrition
Thanks Eric, that’s what I thought .. & yes the ewes are a bit chubby I know!
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Reply to Mob Grazing & Livestock Nutrition
I think she means a second bite of new growth, grazing the stemmy older stuff no problem but happy to be corrected!
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Mob Grazing & Livestock Nutrition
I’ve been mob grazing now since getting the sheep out of the sacrifice paddock in early June. I was also feeding hay until just a couple of days ago, had a small problem with scours with a couple of the mob but now resolved. I have been sizing the grazing cells to fit the mob for an even graze/trample of the whole cell over a max 3 day period.…
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Reply to When to start grazing the green?
Certainly has! After my last post I decided to put the mob back into the sacrifice paddock with some oaten hay I bought.. just moved them into the first strip this morning.. much more grass now!😊 Put some hay in a mobile feeder to help with the adjustment.
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Reply to Red Legged Earth Mite
Looks like getting those foliars out earlier gave the plants a good head start & stave off RELM, I got some out on a couple of paddocks at the same time as you and no sign of them whereas the other paddocks all have some to varying degrees, only got foliars on them last week – plants looking like they are going to grow through the damage though…
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Kate Tarrant posted an update in the group
6 months agoPerennial & Biodiverse Pastures 6 months agoAn update on where we are at with our multispecies paddocks .. germination was excellent, didn’t seem to be any ill effects from sitting in the ground for 6 weeks prior to the break. We have just done a foliar feed across all of the paddocks using the attached recipe plus added some of our Johnson Su compost extract (2kg/ha). The whole job was…
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Reply to Red Legged Earth Mite
Hi Will, We have had some red legs in some of the paddocks we seeded to multi species.. in particular they were hammering the legumes & brassicas. Mark Tupman @mark suggested spraying out Magnesium Suplhate at a rate of 5 to 7kg/ha along with some molasses… our soils are quite deficient in magnesium & I think if my understanding is correct,…
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