News

18 October 2016

Cows doing 2.5ms
Going into 3000 cover fantastic quality grass at moment
Cows are looking good to go into mating!

12 October 2016

Cows doing 2.45.
Feeding 4.5 kg
0.5 kg more starch than ddg
Just cut 10% farm ballage
Cows condition score 4.76

4 October 2016

Cows doing 2.5ms/cow .94 fat/protien ratio
Plenty of grass so cutting feed in shed down to 4.5kg/cow/day
2.5kg high starch 2 kg ddg
Milk urea 31
8.4ms/ha/day
Cows are 470kg live weight average

28 September 2016

Almost finished calving only 16 to go cows still doing 2.5 ms. We are now mowing in front of the cows to increase intakes plus the 2.5kgs DDG and 2.5kgs barley high starch pellet. We have been blessed with amazing grass growing weather and things are cranking !!

13 September 2016

220 cows calved 60 to go. Starting 2nd round grass on 16th sept. Just about to finish first round of SOA fert at 150 kg/ha
Cows are getting 3kg ddg 3 kg high starch pellet in the shed

2 September 2016

Grass is starting to take off, the weather has been fantastic this spring.

Will be hitting 2nd round grass in a weeks time which will hopefully lift the cows to their peak target of 2.6ms / cow.

11 June 2016

Pasture cover 2130.Milking 128 cows. Eating 7 kgs grass/day rest supplement . Farm 78 ha. How many more days should I milk for?

Cows doing 2.15ms / cow
Feed 1.7kgs DDG / 1.7 PKE / 1.7 Grain pellet
Cows are still putting on weight and they are up to 515kg now from 485kg on the 1st December.