grazing

Looking at grazing herbal leys with cattle in an arable rotation, leys will be in 4/5 years. Wanting to find a cost effective way of being able to fence feilds and pull out the fence and use somewhere else. Options seem to be clipex or creosote posts, I remember seeing in New Zealand metal...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Well-known EasyCare sheep breeder, Campbell Tweed, has expressed a strong degree of confidence in the future of lamb prices. He bases this assertion on the fact that sheep meat is widely accepted as a source of dietary protein around the world. “It...

To start with before anyone says, I don’t mean the ones on your head or lack there of! Over the past few years the number of brown hares across our farm and the neighbours as well has increased dramatically. This is probably due to a zero tolerance approach to corsers and the change in the law...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland A Scottish Borders farm with a four-bedroom country house and two-bedroom cottage on 137.7ac has been brought to the market by GSC Grays. Grey Peel farm sits in an elevated and private position just south of the historic Royal Burgh of Jedburgh...

I have some which are well over knee high, and thick with grasses. Others are shorter but thick with flowering crimson clover. What are people doing about management in these scenarios? There's plenty of flowering blackgrass in some, docks in others etc. Grazing or taking a cut would...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The Sustainable Control of Parasites in Sheep (SCOPS) group is urging farmers to start faecal egg counts (FECs) on February and March-born lambs. The group said roundworm activity so far this season has been relatively low and the recent...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland Immediate changes will be made to on-farm slaughter in Wales, the government has said, after recommendations from the Bovine TB Technical Advisory Group (TAG) were accepted. Welsh rural affairs cabinet secretary Huw Irranca Davies accepted the...

Hello all, I am 20 years old and farm currently have 100 breeding ewes along side our main flock of the. Familys of 500 ewes plus i relief milk everyday. I farm 60 acres of rougher lowland grazing 20 of which is good silage type ground i want to start milking myself whether that be with a...

Where i live in Victoria, south west, they have alot of hump n hollow or as they call it "lands", for drainage mainly on dairy farms. 800 to 1000mm. Widths varying fron 10 to 18m, pics are of bewly formed ones, i sowed with power harrow. Ant...

We are very fortunate to have been offered a new FBT on a small farm. Because of the size of the holding our main income will come from the non farming aspects of the busines, so we can reduce the level of stock we currently run. The current stock fencing is in poor condition and will need to be...

Any suggestions, please? Nothing fancy, just robust enough to cope with topping paddocks on the grazing platform, pre- and post-grazing. Realistically, looking at 2nd hand... TIA

Wet weather and temporary adjustments to agri-environment agreements Written by The Team Credit: James Clark Between October 2023 and March 2024, England experienced the second wettest 6-month period on record. The rainfall was nearly 60% above the 10-year average. Heavy rainfall has a...

A farm open day in Gloucestershire on 29 May will offer arable farmers a low cost entry to finishing beef cattle with free on-call advisory support and minimum guaranteed payment terms at the outset. One of the open day organisers is Buitelaar Group, the “bed and breakfast” beef finishing...

Managing a small herd of longhorns here.Lovely quiet cows untill they have a calf, then it's as if a switch has been flicked and they suddenly become possessed by the devil. This of course then becomes exacerbated when you have calves that don't suck; big traffic cone tits to latch onto; tagging...

As a company we are hugely supportive of the good work carried out in the agricultural sector and are actively working to see how we can further assist and work with the farming and agricultural community in the South East and East Anglia, we are happy to look at other areas outside of this on a...

If I buy land for recreation rather than for farming does that mean it would lose its value if wanting to sell it in future? Well I would certainly be maintaining it, just not for agriculture. Well maybe still agriculture if talking about permaculture, just not the intensive farming with...

Hi folks, Got soil test results back today, this was one big block of 25odd acres, I divided it with one permanent fence up the middle, I drained and limed one side and left the other side untouched so far. Only grazing ground but the index levels are gone very bad for the bit I’ve actually put...

I've tried searching around and haven't found anything in the TFF annals so here we go! We have about 25 acres of woodland on our patch. Some of it very mature and a small but expanding area of natural regenerative woodland and some acres of steep, gorse and bramble covered ground. After years...