OUR BIGGEST PROBLEM !! | NEW FARM UPDATE

hello everybody my name is farmer Phil and in today's video we are back on our new Farm the farm that we took nearly 4 months ago over over 3 months nearly 4 months ago 120 acre block of ground and we're starting this video there an update and however is looking now now that we're nearly here 4 months and first thing we're in the shed where we started we have the shed has been fully agitated we haven't touched the slats which hopefully we get done towards the back end of the year and then before cattle going in we have to just adjust the barriers do a few bits with the internal pening and make sure all the drinkers in there are working so we can put stock in here our plan currently is that we'll house the heers and Bullocks one side not the finishing ones but the ones for going back out and this year's Cavs and then the other side we'll put bu way in then that's this so we'll go now down that way and we'll check on how the heers are getting on and we are down here now with our heers and there's a couple of Bullocks out here as well we just brought up the numbers here cuz we reckoned we could easily carry them and these are on quite a heavy sword of grass there was nothing else I could do with it it was just for grazing there was no fear more on or so these are Under last rotation the last Paddock of their rotation so the block of ground that these are on is split into 10 paddocks with temporary wire we are fully fenced right round both sides so it's two two Fields I think that one's 10 acres this is 8 Acres then there's a another or two acre Garden at the top so they have 10 paddocks to rotate on so once we can average 3 days a paddock we'll get 30day rotation which will give us plenty of time to get grass coming ahead these have moved on to this three days on it now they are looking well they are doing very well very happy with how they're doing they're very content so they are but I'm expecting this grass to last at least another week maybe even two weeks there is quite a lot of grass out here which suits me fine cuz it gives me time to tackle the rest of what has been grazed and what we have to tackle there so we still have to tackle the rushes on the farm on the blocks where the heers are now thankfully the heers have eaten it very well so it's easy to see what's not rushes and it looks quite clean but the problem is the ground is wet it's drying but we're busy when dry and then R and then it's too wet to M I think I might get it done this week but we have everything to do bar where they are now which will have to be done after they gra that but we a bit of luck or get these bloody things mowed off bailed up after about two weeks and then we'll get in with some spray and we'll say bye-bye rushes for a while anyways so just walking back up so you can see the heers they get and bollocks got in nice and tight to the grass so we should be able to knock these rushes out hopefully so so we're just out now where the heers would have grazed first on their rotation down their paddocks is the longest growth that we have and as you can see it is poor at least a month and a half if not two months and you'll be expecting to see like there's no there's no depth in the grass now two reasons it's probably all grass probably doesn't have a lot of energy in the soil to push it did get slurry on it but could probably do it some more and then the second thing is it has been unseasonably cold when I mean unseasonably cold un seasonally this normally this time of year we'd be in you know 20° heat most days over 10° at night currently we're only 13 to 15° during the day and we're on we're in single digits at night and that's having a serious effect on grass growth that should be tall enough now that I shouldn't be thinking of M the rushers out this but I'm going more the rushes out a bit of Lu if I get this side done first we'll also have it sprayed before the heers come off there and hopefully hopefully within the space of 2 weeks I think it'll take two weeks for them to ra that that I'll have this side done bailed and sprayed and ready for the heers to come this way so we also have our big stack of bailes here this has just been from Gathering paddocks ahead of cattle this is not silage ground except for the very first B stuff in mode that was not a lot of bails on it but that's all from padic and I reckon if I had my receding program done at home and now I left left mobile I could have that twice as full cuz there a lot of grass going to waste at home so we're now on the top of the farm we're out in the tillage field where we have spring barely sewn and I must admit it does look quite well you look across the field 19 Acres of what looks very nice when you look down it's a little bit scattered maybe it's filling in it's a little bit scattered especially maybe a bit around some parts of the Headlands and that may have been a little bit of leather war or leather jackets cuz this was L ground where it to be most prevalent the leather jackets just basically take take seedlings out of it the big thing when we plowed this field was we were like how Stony is this going to be 19 Acres we thought this going to be very sunny that's all stones that came off the entire field now yes that's a big one how the plow managed to turn that up good a question is any without breaking but that is it I made a specific point of every stone I picked to drop them into one spot just to show there was nothing in that field now when you come to the brow over there that we were talking about how far down we plow there was no Earth there it just got to a point where there was just not nor so we do have to re instate to to wire the stair with PST and pull it back up to the edge of the brow that we plowed to because there just there was nowhere there was nothing to turn with the plow but then rest of the field not St I power hard it I just yeah loveliest bit till his ground I think I've ever had have worked on and this is it 19 Acres of stone something else we cross the wire and we're into the hay field is live the horse field but this is for hay now you may notice it's not a great crop that's on it and that is because of the Mount of dead grass and that whole white stuff that was on the rest of the farm out that way we quickly run out of grass to feed the cattle even though what was out there wasn't grass really I supp it's like making the meat hay maybe so we ended up having to keep the Bulls on this for about a month they were kept here and they kept it that down and they're only off at probably only off at about 3 weeks now to a month is I'd say more 3 weeks now so it is coming back it's a lovely crop of butter cups but there's not much other dirt in it there's a few Ducks here and there but it's much cleaner than the silage field which will be looking at um it is to be rolled there's a couple of tracks left in it from slurry so I'm going to try and get the roller into it maybe next year or so while ground is a little bit soft just to hit them weather spots and just make sure that there's no sticks or stones in the back SW and with a bit of luck we may get this for hay but or bales but to be honest I think fer fi is only dreaming I'll show you why so this is the silage field so we have the Bulls out here now and yeah they are the Bulls are just being a bit of a nightmare on the farm at the minute cuz it's getting them very hard to stay P for whatever reason they kept breaking out there so we just left them out there that's why we actually ended up great isn't it but the was sh all L anywhere else for them to eat so I'm looking they're in here now to eat the back Force eat the brow there that we didn't Mo I eat the corner down there that we didn't mow I'm hoping we'll knock a week out of it and then the plan for here is try and get in with some fresh grass seed with the grass Hara the longer I leave the Bulls on it you'll see what they're doing the Bulls are just kind of disturbing the dirt there so it's opening up the grass water so I should be able to get more grass seed to make contact with the clay and we're trying to get bit fresh stuff out here and the day I put that out I think we're going to try and spray it for Forefront with Forefront tea to try and nail the Ducks the titles and the Nettles out of it the Bulls are being hardship at a minute because they just are breaking out for the crack so they are and yeah just this batch D Bulls are behaving much better on other Farms with these ones and there's one ra I've never seen as bad a bull now he he put the fear in you so I would out there I've never seen one as bad usually to be quite quiet but there's one L out there is not not a simple individual but any depending on how they're behaving and how grass is holding up around the back sorts and that will depend on how long we actually get to leave them out here so we're just out on our you can call The Big Field of this Farm I think it's 27 Acres out here and yeah it's lot greener than the last time you've seen this when we put the slurry on it but um driving across this is a bit of a nightmare you stick to one or two packs we have because there is just Stones everywhere though saying that I think the Square from the pole on out that way to the end where that hedge kind of comes out that way and back here I think doesn't have stones in it and when we get when we're getting that rolled out there I'm going to get him in here and roll this and see is there any stones but I think this bit here it could be maybe four or 5 acres in it could be safe for Mo but there is some hellish big Stones throughout the russes and in that b wet wet bit down there and there's some tabletop stones out there I think to that temporary wire there out there then there is absolute tabl Toppers so there's the Bullocks just there now but we'll have a look at the situation out here so you have some big Bullocks and you have some smaller Bullocks the bigger Bullocks would be a year generation older than the smaller guys but um they are doing quite well so they're out here on this square of The Big Field as we call it the 27 acre field So currently we have it divided into three with temporary wire this one there's a triangle there and then there's the far side the Bulls grazed that one and then went on and grazed the far one that you can see the has come at long last it was taken quite some time to come but the issue it's not too bad here but when you get kind of across the brow there you'll see areas that there's no grass growing and the old grass is still there and we also have butter cups we'll put up the Drone there and live will just show you what the place is looking like now and she can overlay it but as you'll see the place is yellow all the fields are yellow with butter cups which isn't much feed to cattle nothing that anywere of anyways and it chokes out the grass so it's too late to do anything about it now cuz it's in flour so there's not much we can do it will piss off of itself in due course but it is just going to hamper things but again the grass just isn't very it's just not a great grass that's growing again it's maybe poorer grass poorer soil or low fertility in soil and then the Colder Weather so it's making a ho out of it why am I now thinking for receding we want to try and get some receding done cuz we want to try and get more vigorous grass into some of this ground to try and be able to keep plenty of gr good quality grass ahead of cattle and be able to make some Surplus silage which will all help make Everton pay so the current thinking I have now you can let me know what you think whether you think it's right or it's wrong but we can't wa now because we just are tight on a grass ahead of cattle so what I'm thinking is in the month of September if we got the Bulls the Bullocks will be grazing the fire side where they came from so they shouldn't need out here the Bulls will be grazing on out the front the silage fields if we got this all off tight and the Bley off tight I'm thinking maybe we should come in with Roundup spray off the good section of this field leave the wet spot cuz it's not going to be good enough spray off the one with the hilling out the other side of the yard and then Harrow it and go in with kale griller rape something like that a forge crop and put it in whatever way it grows just kind of chw up the place get something in it and then out winter cattle here we'll be able to use the bowl behind us as the grass base that is required now was never required but now they require it so we can use that as a grass base we also have the yard and a shed and we also have a stone pass in from the main road so we' be able to easily get in and out to give them buffer feed them silage without any issues and if we have wintered 30 or 40 cattle here I think between that over the winter that's going to chop all that old grass that's going to leave the ground in a nicer state to be able to hit it as soon as it's dry enough in the spring and get fresh grassed and that'll allow me to Reed this Square the ball and the hill so I'll be getting the guts of let's say 20 acres here there's 7 Acres out there and there's 6 Acres out there so 20 about 30 3 34 Acres of ground Rec seeded here in the one shot but that's provided it's a dry spring where this plan would fail as if it was a poor spring where the ground didn't dry till you know May June I'm going to leave myself quite Tai hon grass that is the only flip side to the coin so what you think let me know in the comments is a good idea is a bad idea I just can't see any other way of getting any receding done currently without leaving ourselves to tyon grass and that's where we might is that at the minute on rental ground you have to be careful how much you put into the land because you're only ever on it for so long and there's that cost benefit to how much you spend yeah that's the current thinging let me know in the comments what you what you think so we're out here now on what we call the ball so this is one field then we have the hill out there where there's that bit of a yard where probably seen the cattle last so we would have when the cattle came here first to gra the tillage field to come in the gra this then they graze the hill and when we got to the hill I took people's advice on board and we started strip grazing the white grass and that worked very very well a lot better than block grazing because they literally they had their silage they went out they H that ship you moved it every other day and that's how we got all of that now we didn't graze across the river with they were grazed with the bull with the Bullocks but everything here was grazed that way and that worked very well the farm is now fully fenced so as you'll see every every bit is fenced so we have every field is fenced off we have our water infrastructure there thereabouts there's water for every field but it's not put in for the divisions that I intend on making for Paddock grazing that we'll have to get to that but the minute we have water for every field so we're that far on but the issue that I was saying is why we may not get making hay off the field over there is because this is the next stop for the Bulls and as you can tell again it's still not there and it's still there's the our grass is still there holding back certain pockets and it's just hasn't just gone away it is going to take this year but the field is much Greener the plan for the Big Field now and I'll get live to pop it up there on the screen our padding I have all the paddocks broken down on Google Maps where I'm going to put them in that and I have it worked out that we should have about we should have 32 paddocks on the farm and it ranging from two to just over three acres per Paddock which hopefully will last animals between 3 to 7 Days depending on the group sizes usually espec with the bulls we usually run batches of 50 and with the heers and Bullocks anywhere from 20 to 40 depending on how many there is that year and how we think grass is growing in different spots and whatnot but the field that we have here we're going to break this into 10 paddocks we're not going to do it now cuz there's just not enough there if I done it now the cattle will just always be breaking out because there's just simply not enough in a 2 acre square to keep that many cattle happy but that is the intention and hopefully 32 paddocks will be able to serve three D three groups of cattle and it'll also include them being able to graze the two silage Fields whenever they are taken out and then they can be gr back fors and then they come back cattle can come back onto the rotation everything is fenced around it's just the internal fencing or not say internal all the fields are fenced off when it comes to this field and going to put a line down the middle and then use temporary wires to break it off and then temporary wires in every other field to divide them into paddocks this one is the only one that'll have more than two paddocks in it the rest of the fields all break into two or actually one behind the ball I think might actually break into three padds the reason we're using temporary fences is when it comes to Springtime walk come out here with the pipes all I got to do is just roll up the wires out of the way and then I have easy spreading it saves all the extra work that goes into trying to crosswires and time and also money that would be taken if we were to put in permanent paddocks breaking up Fields temporary does the job once you have power in the main line so that is the plan here can let me know what you think is 32 paddocks I think 32 padic well that's basically what it is it's breaking it into two anywhere from just under 2 acres to just over 3 Acre pics and if we get this receded I think it should work quite quite well we have one more bit to show you we have to head out now down the road and cross the main road to where the Bullock started their rotation and now we are out where the Bullocks started where they were let out first and to be fair it's actually looking a little bit greener than it was a week ago you can see there still is plenty of old dead grass there but it's Greening but the LA gots coming there too so the plan for out here now F Phil wants to come in with the disc and put grass heat in it I don't know whether that's the right idea cuz it is soft ground it's it's Peach is pey ground destroying the scraw that's there could leave it wet so I'm mixed on that but one thing we will be doing anyways I'll be coming in with the more and I will be mowing the rushes topping his best I can cuz I remember seeing this being done before there's one big Stone dead center but app from that I've near walked the whole field now there doesn't seem to be anything else in it so I'd say it's going to be fairly safe and then I be more inclined to use the grass har but FF wants to disc and pull grass seed so we'll see let me know in the comments grass Harrow or disc grass har is going to gather all the trash and dead grass and it could be tricky that way the disc car is going to Ru up the and could leave wet ground wet because this is It's pey ground it's soft ground the scraw is kind of what carries everything so yeah that is the debate Bullock's done quite a nice job on it and the plan with this is this will be divided in two then from then on so Fen is up and everything sh yeah look that's really it that is how the new Farm is coming on um I was hoping I to come up this morning and done a bit of topping but I just don't have the time because live wants to get back into the house and get it finished off so that it's finished finished and then we can start on the house that is the new Farm that's how it's coming still a couple of decisions there do we spray off that other section bin Grilla or rape or kale Grilla rape something like that for out wintering cattle and then reat it what do we do here there a couple of questions let me know in the comments What would are your opinions what should we do should is a good idea bad idea and all the rest One Last Thing Before I go now I I have to mention some of you may remember around Christmas we announced that we were going to be holding a tractor run in memory of Uncle and the date for that tractor run is the 15th of SE Sunday the 15th of September there'll be a full video on what ever about it and how to register and all that will be coming up soon we're just waiting on sorting out the final bit at online registration pre-registration for tractors cuz that's taken us a bit longer than we were expected but save the date the 15th Sunday the 15th of September there will be a big big track to run in Longford but anyways we're going to leave it at that for today's video hope you enjoyed it as always please like And subscribe to the Channel videos every Tuesday Thursday and Sunday that's it for me good luck

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Length: 22min 17sec (1337 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 16 2024