What are you using your Lucerne for, are selling and using some? I’m really enjoying your content. Ps I’ve got No Farming background. Thank you very much.
No, we haven't. We might have to fertilize in the near future, and we'll make sure to mention it then. We usually get about 160 square bales per hectare.
Hi Peter, it varies during the season. In the heat of the summer we need to water every 2nd week, when it's cooler we do every 3rd week or so. We use surface irrigation with a solar pump that gives around 40000 l/h. If you do calculations based on our surface area, its about 3-4 inches every watering. If we plant from March to May we get very little weed problems, however the lucerne eventually overtake the weeds anyway. Usually our first and second cut may have more weeds in but after that we get clean lucerne throughout the season. A nice dense stand will have very little room for weeds👍
@@SVtgr8 yes it is, hopefully next week we can start leveling some more fields, then we're planting more lucerne before winter. In Sutherland we try to plant before 15 June, so you're still good to go if you want to plant!
Good job. I watch your channel. I'm Animal Science Student in Sri lanka.😍
Thank you! That's great, best of luck with your studies!
Excellent initiative taming that dry environment..nothing comes easy,don't give up.greeting from Kenya.
Awesomeness..... good growing your own feed ...
Awesome content!!! Keep pressing forward..👍👍👍
good job. thank u for sharing your experiences.
What are you using your Lucerne for, are selling and using some? I’m really enjoying your content. Ps I’ve got No Farming background. Thank you very much.
Great video and info .Did you eventually fertilize your Lucerne and what was the yeild per Hectar please.
No, we haven't. We might have to fertilize in the near future, and we'll make sure to mention it then. We usually get about 160 square bales per hectare.
@KarooKids that is fantastic. Thanks for update .
Hi from Klein Karoo. How much water do you give your lucern? And how often? How do you keep weeds out?
Hi Peter, it varies during the season. In the heat of the summer we need to water every 2nd week, when it's cooler we do every 3rd week or so. We use surface irrigation with a solar pump that gives around 40000 l/h. If you do calculations based on our surface area, its about 3-4 inches every watering. If we plant from March to May we get very little weed problems, however the lucerne eventually overtake the weeds anyway. Usually our first and second cut may have more weeds in but after that we get clean lucerne throughout the season. A nice dense stand will have very little room for weeds👍
@@LusernvleiFarm so now is a good time to plant new fields with lucern?
@@SVtgr8 yes it is, hopefully next week we can start leveling some more fields, then we're planting more lucerne before winter. In Sutherland we try to plant before 15 June, so you're still good to go if you want to plant!
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Met hoeveel skape het julle begin
Ons het met 130 ooie en 4 ramme begin