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I haven’t tried this but apparently a mix of milk and molasses diluted in water and sprayed out over the area might do the trick.
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Reply to When to start grazing the green?
Ended up just extending the sacrifice paddock a bit and have bought some Oaten Hay to keep the mob going. Means I can give the rest of the paddocks a bit more time…
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And to you also Eric, hope you get a good dousing! We seeded 10ha with multi species and are also keeping it locked up to go to seed this year. Will have plenty of standing feed for summer/autumn next year 😃. Having a year off lambing.. happy days!
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Reply to When to start grazing the green?
Sounds very similar to what’s happening at ours. Got some foliars on some of the paddocks last week but got foiled by the rain so will be pulling out all stops as soon as this front has gone .. with very similar mix to what you are putting on ( except I had to buy the fish hydrosylate & seaweed tonic .. maybe I’ll make my own this spring.
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Reply to When to start grazing the green?
Hey Kate.
We run out of hay and silage next week, so we will be onto the new pastures 5 weeks post seeding instead of my preferred 6 weeks. We also have a mix of pastures with some already at 2500kg/ha and looking good, but others only at around 1500kg/ha. Our various brassicas, radish, mustards, vetch, clover etc aren’t going to like the…
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Reply to When to start grazing the green?
Will be watching but strip size should mean moving on after 2 grazing days.
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Another important thing at this time of year is avoiding second bites to enable plants to make good recovery. Small breaks also help but time for the rest of the paddocks.
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When to start grazing the green?
I’ve bitten the bullet and moved the mob out of the sacrifice paddock and onto the green this morning – would have preferred another week but have run out of hay and there’s none to be found anywhere locally it seems. According to Dr Judi Earl we should be aiming for around 3000kg DM/ha in order to ensure we can leave a residual of 2000kg…
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Mark Tupman posted an update 6 months ago
6 months ago (edited)
It’s proving to be a tricky season.
We could all do with some green feed.
Are we going to get enough rain in the South West this week to trigger germination? We’ll see, but quite probably.
If so, will there be enough follow up rain to sustain the species that germinate?
On the other hand, if we don’t seed and the existing seed bank gets away, we…
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We have just seed coated today and will seed half of the farm on Monday and Tuesday and then another third of the farm in four weeks time.
May average rainfall is 132mm and lowest on record is 50mm. So we are taking the punt that the rain will materialise along with cooler temperatures.
we also have lambs due to start dropping from mid to late…
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Seed – we have seeded everything we planned to do, it now looks like we will get at least an inch this week and should get germination, the dew is enough to keep it going in the furrows until next rain
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Reply to Percentages of species and the sub species in a multi mix pasture
Hi Michael,
For grazing purposes a general recommendation would be to use a standard ryegrass and clover mix that had early, mid and late season varieties in it and add some other hardy, graze tolerant species into the mix for diversity.
My suggestion would be to lower the usual rate of ryegrass and clover by around 30% and add 1-2kg of a…
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