View from the hills across Newport’s flats.
for silage and balage. Other work such as spraying and direct drilling is also done by contractors, and sometimes ground work if they are struggling for time themselves. As well as lucerne, they are increasing the diversity of legumes in their paddocks, including sub clovers, partly for nitrogen fixing and also as a self-seeding legume that can be grazed later in summer. To get that under way they plan to direct-drill red clover into the older lucerne stands as
a trial to see how it goes. One of the greatest benefits of both lucerne and rape is that they can keep better condition scores on the sheep throughout the year, and they say that helps everything from tupping to lambing and recovery. They have 180ha of flats to plant rape, lucerne and cut supplements, with a further 120ha covering medium hill country to the east, which is made up of
just nine paddocks, and 60ha of gorse covered ridges. Though their Hereford cattle work well cleaning up tag on the hills, further subdivision is planned and sub clover will be encouraged, to make the hills more productive in a natural way. To date they calve 100 cows on the flat country and sell all the weaners at the end of March, which is welcome money in the bank. The herd scans 95-100% and on average will calve about 95%.They aim to
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