We are definitely not mob grazing here as dont have the stock numbers or infrastructure set to do it yet but this is as close as we have come and results are good.
Let grass go to seed in July
Split 6 acre field into 3 paddocks of 2 acres each and stock with 100 sheep and 10 bullocks (all we have). Graze a third, trample a third, leave a third. Or something like that to this,
40 days rest and you have this
A few updates.
We got the wheat in a few weeks ago. Thought it was ready, but came off at 20% moisture still so took some drying. Dried yield worked out just over 3t/acre and 10 round bales of straw/acre so quite happy with that off 120 units of Nitrogen and the Take All challenge we saw.
No more winter cereals going in the ground this year but our main arable field has been ploughed down and just sown out to a short term clover grass mix hopefully delivering plenty of multi cut silage over next few years off minimal inputs. It will also act as a soil improver building soil structure and fertility before going back into cereals in 4 years time and we will also aim to finish lambs off this grazing back at end of the season.
The other smaller field we are planning to put in…
We were able to get that earlier in the year and it definitely did recover well, we were severely understocked at that stage so I bought some more and took a field out of the rotation and then towards the end of August there was a lot less grass growth so very little residual left- so not ideal- definitely a learning curve!