Educator Mark Tupman
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Reply to Do Annual Cover Crop Mixes Have a Place in Grazing Programs
How’s this for growth.
This is the area where I left a cover crop to go to seed last year for stockpiled dry summer feed.
You can see how well it came away this season. Even the dog thinks it’s worth eating!
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Reply to Red Legged Earth Mite
Unless the soil is in a healthy and fertile enough state to support the plants adequately 😏
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Reply to Red Legged Earth Mite
This is a site where we had a severe infestation of RLEM last year.
This year I have given it all the nutritional and biological help I can, no pesticide, and it’s hardly been touched by the RLEM (see photo) so must be doing something right.
I’ll post an up close tomorrow.
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Reply to Red Legged Earth Mite
Hi Will,
Yes, the RLEM is definitely making its presence felt around the place atm.
There is definitely something about healthy plants or plants growing in healthy soil that seems to impart red legged resistance as we commonly see healthy plants untouched while others in not such a good paddock are getting hammered.
The exact reason for this is…
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Reply to When to start grazing the green?
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.
Jourdyn Wells -
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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Reply to Potassium in our soils
When it comes to potassium inputs, potassium sulphate is probably your best option.
It’s an allowable input in certified organic enterprises and has a relatively low salt index so not hard on soil biology.
Will McGirr -
Reply to Photosynthesis, Oxidation & the Energy Equation
Hi Laura,
that’s a great question.
Firstly, oxygen is definitely needed in the soil for respiring microbiology and plants but we need both good oxygenation and restricted oxygen environments in our soils to support different microbe groups and processes. This happens with good soil aggregation, where air flows freely between the gaps of, but not…
Laura Stocker -
Reply to Do Annual Cover Crop Mixes Have a Place in Grazing Programs
The most important thing is getting them in the ground soon. Everything else is a bonus.
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