Fair play to you Kieran, great to see you back again, you are making a great, great effort to set up your farm for the future, 70 or 80 cows and you are laughing 😃 😅😅..
Have you considered covering the bare spots with some hay and overseas with a broadcast seeder? Also the area around the round bale feeder if you were to spread hay and seed a day before you move the feeder the cows will eat a little and push the seed into the ground. That way the area will recover faster. The purchase or rental of a seeder and sprayer would reduce your costs. Termination of crops can be done with a crimper. Depending on your skills you can make one inexpensively. 17:41
Great video, love the way you get into the costs of everything, not many farmers would tell you that, your farm's looking great, keep up the good work. 👍
That was a great video. We all need s reminder about how much work and $$ farmers must put into the land and the animals in order to produce anything. Thank you Kieran. 👍😊👍
It was to out-winter the cattle as much as anything that I started the process, but I wouldn’t rule out a straight reseed in the future. Depends on what’s needed for animals and the farm. And the farmer!
@@sullivansfarm I really agree with your comments on outwintering weanlings, we started it a few years ago and they are definitely healthier and better ready to go when spring grass arrives... Ours have paddock access and access to a bay in the shed to eat silage there so no mucky feeding involved, they spend 90% of time outdoors, low stocking rates protect the ground
I always use post-emergence but forgot to mention that in the video. It’s €20/acre for the contractor to spray it and €40/acre for clover-safe spray. Another €60acre! Not sure how I forgot that
Also dont forget to give a.bolus to the animals to protect against iodine deficiencies. Apparently there is no need to give cubes to the cattle as the fodder rape is high in protein.
Have you included the cost of the post emergece spray on the reseeding, thats the expensive one but very important, otherwise you'll have a field of weeds again within two years.
