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Graise Farm Consultancy
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
Dairy farm consultancy based in Ireland, working throughout Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England. Ex NZ dairy farmer and consultant coming from the traditional low input, low output system to now looking at a balance of output in a pasture based grazing system with a strong focus on soil health, working with mixed species and optimising N use.
Follow my journey visiting clients and groups and working with different organisations doing trials and working with farmers to reduce input costs and increasing farm resilience and as a result profitability.
Follow my journey visiting clients and groups and working with different organisations doing trials and working with farmers to reduce input costs and increasing farm resilience and as a result profitability.
N episode 2
In this episode, my N application plan for spring, using slurry and N fertiliser to achieve optimal growth and pasture quality in a conventional spring calving dairy farming system in Ireland. How it differs from NZ and why growing more grass isn't always good.
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Caulston Farm Devon
มุมมอง 3.8K14 วันที่ผ่านมา
This week I visit Adam and Holly at Caulston Farm, right on the coast in South Devon. Around 1000 acres milking 550 to 600 cows in an organic system, using herbal leys, all young stock on farm. They are a new AHDB Strategic Dairy Farm, I'm doing this initial visit to give recommendations and will be part of a later AHDB SDF open day on the farm.
online N and slurry meeting
มุมมอง 79514 วันที่ผ่านมา
Short intro introducing a free online information meeting on the 21st of January. A collaboration between Graise Consultancy and Cork Grassland Services, we aim to run a series of online meetings throughout the year starting with this one.
Dourie Farms, Scotland
มุมมอง 9Kหลายเดือนก่อน
Chatting with Rory Christie, Dourie Farms in Scotland farming "cows and sows", plan to milk 1200 cows in 2025, outwinter the replacements, minimise chemical fertiliser use and get more from MSS and clover.
Sheep to dairy conversion Scotland
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Looking at a 600 hectare, 1500 acre farm of which 200 hectares is being converted to dairy for milking in 2025. Will infrastructure be ready to calve and milk 600 cows?
John Downey
มุมมอง 3.7K2 หลายเดือนก่อน
This week I'm speaking to John Downey who is milking around 170 cows through 3 robots, fully housed feeding zero grazed grass through the main grass growing season. Profit focused led by efficient use of high quality pasture with an aim to keep the system simple.
Nitrogen fert episode 1
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Nitrogen fertiliser, what happened in 2024? How can we achieve greater NUE and what impacts it? The first of a series of episodes that will focus on Nitrogen, clover, protected urea, foliar application and more
UK group trip, OAD to fully housed 3X/day milking 770 cows
มุมมอง 8K2 หลายเดือนก่อน
A 3 day trip to the UK with discussion group visiting farms, organic, OAD milking on challenging land and a fully housed, TMR, milking 770 cows 3X/day farm.
Kevin & Jim Kehoe, tillage to dairy 520 cows
มุมมอง 7K2 หลายเดือนก่อน
I caught up with Kevin and Jim who are milking 520 cows on 210 hectares in South Wexford, a couple of driven, hardworking guys who like a laugh. On camera Kevin does most of the talking but they are very much working together to get the farm performing to potential whilst analysing opportunity to cut back on chemical N use, improve soil health and look at using more variety in reseeds.
Will Griffin on mixed species
มุมมอง 1.7K3 หลายเดือนก่อน
One of the earlier adopters of using different plant species in a "conventional" system, Will tells us why he's using mixed species and what he has learnt on his farm. Thanks Will
Peter Hill Wexford
มุมมอง 3K3 หลายเดือนก่อน
Visiting a client in Wexford who has made huge changes to come from hard work, low profit, to hard work, high profit. Last rotation grazing, decisions.
Short intro
มุมมอง 2.3K3 หลายเดือนก่อน
Hello, Andre from Graise Farm Consultancy, this is a short intro to my video series where I'll be visiting clients, experts and farms throughout Ireland, Wales, Scotland, England, New Zealand and hopefully on many other places in the future. Follow me and let me know what you would love to see
Hi Graise , Cuddersop u r spot on with your comments, AS for U, birds foot trefoil an sainfoin really does prove something. What am i. I AM A GRUMPY OLD GIT, HAPPY being miserable,but i have seen, MMB LCP, 70s, MILK QUOTA 80s, MACSHARRY set a side an BSE 90s, FOOT AN MOUTH 20s, Subsidies, GS4 SFI. I have 65 years of KNOWLEDGE, know the 3 Bs, bullshit baffles brains BUT also know when BRAINS SPOUT BULLSHIT.
Hi Graise, Yes what are your recommendations, I know what is required on this farm, SO LETS SEE WHAT GREAT RECOMMENDATION R GOING TO BE AND THEIR SUCCESSFULLNESS. I WIIL BE WATCHING U.
@@philtorr-vo5lj what are you, 5? Maybe try being less confrontational. Keep an eye out for the open day date
Hi Graise, nothing new here then, temperature , T SUMS been around for 50 years, Grandmother keeps sucking the EGGS.
Really nice Farm. Respect
Hi Graise consultancy, articulate an U can talk , interesting , as for foliar applications look at arable info. LIKE all consultants, U to teach GRANDMOTHER HOW TO SUCK EGGS.
Hi Graise consultancy, U can talk the talk, U R going back 50 years, to FISONS at North Wyke farm, A LITTLE AN OFTEN , 25-5-5 or 27 -5-5, no mention of the fact that P an K applied in spring INCREASES production of grass over just applying straight Nitrogen. I find U interesting but my grazing system is way ahead of yours and PRG varieties have heading dates which vary plus or minus 2 days, not to its growth height. If U bought a farm in N Z in 2021 why didnt u stay there ? Why am i ahead of U, simply i have 60 years of knowledge of growing grass in DEVON, a grassland an forage crop agronomist.
Where do u register??
@@paulfinnan1984 www.eventbrite.com/e/optimising-slurry-nitrogen-usage-for-2025-tickets-1205889109789?aff=oddtdtcreator&s=08
Where do u register???
Where in nz are you coming to ?
@@davidquigley3000 Wairarapa/Hawkes Bay👍
@ haha all good was hoping you be down Canterbury way !
Would you recommend any podcasts? Particularly in the area of grass/fertiliser/ soil or even foliar fertiliser. Thanks
@@mosscr I've got a lot from Graeme Sait's Nutrition Farming series 👍
With the hen dung how is that incorporated? Any risk of botulism?
@DylanFarrell-t3j chicken manure is spread directly, I questioned the botulism too but seems to be near nil risk
@ thanks André really enjoying the channel
@@GraiseConsultancywon’t be as big a risk from laying hens as broilers.
Very interesting video.do you work with any once a day farmers in ireland.interesting video to do as alot of farmers on the fence because of no milkers
@markredmond987 thanks, yes I've done a lot with OAD over the years and milked OAD and 3 in 2 myself
I did 10 and 7 last year.but am thinking of oad this spring and maybe full time.finding it impossible to get time off and with young family and no relief milker...have talked to a cuple of oad farmers.where would u advice me to turn to next ss too make the big step.
@@markredmond987 get in touch with me, graiseconsult@gmail.com
Interesting video, so is he running 2 parlours now in 2 driffrent parts of the farm now? Keep up the good work .
@paulfinnan1984 yes that's it, split the farm, 2 parlours and both with no long walks on the main season milking platform
Great discussion, would like to hear more about oad targets, breeding etc. keep up the good work
The history of farming in the western world is ever bigger farms, fewer of them, fewer children locally, little or no community activities. CB radios came from this background in the Usa and on the scale up madness goes.
@michaeloconnor9809 quite the opposite actually, whereas until now this farm has employed only one person, it will now employ at least 4, dairy conversion has a massively positive impact on rural communities both socially and economically and this is grass fed, quality food being produced
Nice video. Hell of a farm. Be interested to see would you do a video on protected urea. A lot of grumbling over it's use and potential downsides. Thanks
@daireharlin181 yes I will be, probably in January
@GraiseConsultancy great thanks
Great videos, keep up the educational stuff as well 👍
@paulfinnan1984 thanks, definitely will do
Have been foliar spraying dissolved urea with humates here for several years. It is by far the most NUE of any form of nitrogen application and it is amazing how the soil structure improoves.
Excellent video. Be interesting to see part 2 and what you think going into grazing next year
Great video. I was hoping you ask the lads about no clear sheets on the roofs.
Carbon footprint is an individual blame game, a load of bollocks can’t understand why you still swallow it. I’ll let you into a secret it’s all tied onto agenda 20/30 which I’m sure you’ve heard about. You know the secret meetings your government has in Davos every year with the WEF which the media keep very quiet about? Well they’re planning on getting rid of farms using the climate farce, wake up and smell the roses FFS.
Great video Guys
Well done lads
Great video. Interesting set up.
No need to cringe at other grasses. If you pick the right varieties, you’ll take the mixed species leys to another level. I have cocksfoot and tall fescue in my mixtures, out growing PRG and cows still doing 1.4kg MS late lactation. The grasses and legumes are the bread and butter, the herbs are useful but peripheral. Yarrow is a useful addition as it will be invisible some years then produce well in a dry year.
@@cuddersop thanks, it'd be interesting to see "cardboard grasses" working, I have only had and seen negative experiences
In the dry east of England, birdsfoot trefoil is one of my most persistent components because drought checks its competition. I was surprised to see it growing well on the Mullet when I visited Ireland. Growing on the dunes and verges however.
Hey Graise, do you advise to use the aerator in this kind of environment? To help infiltrate more water
@xMarf yes in some situations, usually dig a few holes and decide what's the best solution, sometimes proper drainage, sometimes deep aerator, sometimes a spike roller
Peter is one sound man
Good job Andre, looking forward to more videos 👍
Great . Your articles are always very interesting
Brilliant Andre looking forward to the videos 👏
Well done Andre looking forward to watching