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We've had our Paddocks for 40 years or so. All just like that with Clover, Plantains and so on. Only ever been grazed by Horses, Sheep and Alpacas. Never needed re-seeding and only ever topped.
Lovely , beautiful area . Thankyou Farmer Cornok for sharing this with us all . The cows are picturess on the view . Make a nice painting . Please tell Rob thankyou .
Good morning Richard Harry and Rob, What a wonderful place to be I do love that part of the country you look as if you are enjoying yourself, see you tomorrow morning crake on and take care of yourself.⭐️👍👌
Brilliant.......i'm like you Richard always interested to see how other farmers do things. those cattle look so quiet and friendly .......my lot always seem to run away when there's some strange people around. just wondering what those herbal lays would be like in round bale silage or hay.........looks a bit stemy/stalky to me. but if were honest about it though most farmers will be most interested in the £360 ha payments for growing herbal leys 😀😀
Hi Richard, very interesting video we have signed up to re seed with herbal leys and we also rear Hereford cross calves out of jersey cross British friesian cows.our reason for growing herbal leys is pretty much as Rob said however our ground is heavy and the main reason is because we’ve took on a farm three years ago that was very neglected and derelict so the pastures were over grown and basically spent so we were going to reseed on rotation but had to wait till our stewardship agreement ended but now with the changes we can now do it along side our agreement so it’s a win win situation for us 👍
What I have seen with a few Irish farmers it is best to let the herbal lay go to flower/seed so in the long term you don't have to reseed the land every 3 or 4 years. As the seed replenishes the older plants as they die out. Same as its good to change what fields you cut for hay every year or 2 so you get a fresh bit of grass growing
Interesting on the herbal let's must be better for grazing as plenty of choice, Richard when you said you have a lot of Italian rye grass did you not mean perennial rye grass ? As I have not seen any Italian rye grass on your farm any where it is after all only suitable as a short term let. Where we live in France a lot of the bigger dairy units put in IRG straight after maize then take an early cut of it at end of April then back into maize.
Excellent video Richard , the cows look great. Are farms able to have two breeds of cows mixed together on a farm and mix the milk or is that not allowed? Can two breeds mix sociably?
Hi Harry, what cow do you want to buy bring it home? I agree with you. Jersey cows would be better and good milking Be better with robots milk Machines cows like it better too I’ll read up magazine sad
