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Hillmount Farm
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Project field for this season. 9 acres. 3 acres of rushes in the bottom that have been untouched for a long time. Very wet and hard to drain as sits at the water table so tends to be standing water in the winter and grazeable in the summer. As a result never been ploughed and is very mossy soil. Planning on tackling the rushes this year but after that no definite plans on what next. Maybe split the field at bottom of hill with a sort of willow silvopasture sort of thing in the wet bit .What would you do?
Maureen Kilgore
Mar 08, 2023
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Farm planning 2023
What changes are people planning for the farm in 2023?
We have the following on the wishlist. Whether or not it will all happen is a different kettle of fish...
Introduce clean grazing system. Keeping a proportion of the farm sheep free and grazed by cattle only to create clean grazing for lambs following season
Increase stocking rate of cattle to get grazing impact.
Charles Cole
Feb 22, 2023
In the fields, a bit of drainage, then keep going with the rotation...
Hoping to get some doors and a silo through the FBIS...
Then some pens/gates in the Calf Sheds...
Going to play around with the idea of home milling... see if I can localise what feed we do have to bring in...
Some more gates to finish our permanent paddock set ups, and make stock movement flow easier...
towards the end of the year a bit more concrete in the yard if there's money for it...
Play around with some FYM and biologoical additives vs. making our own.
Work on some diversification projects..
Apart from that keep on trucking. Fields are all set up to do there thing!
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