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January 2018
January
2018
22 January 2018
11mls of rain last week
Have very little grass now .
Probably feeding 14kg supplements to the cows.
Cows have dropped down to 2ms/cow
12 January 2018
Update:
Feeding 3 kg grain,3 kg ddg,4 kg pke
3 kg grass silage.
We are getting very dry.
Slowing down the round length trying to keep some grass ahead of us.
Cows doing 2.2ms/cow.
Feed cost are costing 0.6ms/cow on $6.40 payout
SR. 3.65cows/ha
Cows are maintaining their weight
Need some rain soon
December 2017
December
2017
18 December 2017
Some good rain over the weekend was great!!
Cows have grazed new grass now so whole farm back in the round. Stocking rate drops back to 3.7 cows/ha
Cows doing 2.3 ms/cow
3 kg DDG : 3 kg Grain : 3 kg PKE
2 more days of mating then we stop! Will have a shorter calving next season
Southland still needs more rain so hopefully more comes soon.
11 December 2017
Feeding 9 kgs in shed
3 kg ddg
3 kg grain
3 kg pke
Cows doing 2.2 ms/cow
Should be able to graze new grass paddocks this week which will be nice to have whole farm back in the round.
November 2017
November
2017
14 November 2017
Cows doing 2.4 ms/cow
feeding 3.5 kg crushed wheat
2.5 kg ddg/soya bean blend 66/33
Today is last day of 3 weeks mating.
Weather looks really good for this week.
8 November 2017
Plenty of rain with no snow here but plenty in other parts of Southland .
Still plenty of grass cows still doing 2.4 and feeding 3 kg crushed wheat 2kg ddg soya bean mix.
Had 57% submissions for first two weeks so over 10% more than last season.
October 2017
October
2017
18 October 2017
All finished calving and just gone over 9 ms/ha/day and still taking calf milk out. Cows are really kicking into gear now.
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