Dairy Stops Urea and Unleashes SUPER Performance
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Discover how Farmer Chris Nixon has transformed his large dairy and beef operations with regenerative practices, improving performance and reducing disease. All while doubling his dry matter productivity. Chris is unlocking the power of his farm's soils.
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Years ago, as a kid, I worked for a bloke who supplied Racing Stable with feed, I saw the stables routinely chopped and steamed their feed. I asked why, to get the laconic answer “Because it works”. The stables were cleared daily, we delivered in a truck and drove away empty. My Dad was a great gardener, we virtually lived out of the back yard garden (vegetables and fowl). I asked if Racing Horse manure would make his garden grow faster, he said bring some and we would try, thereafter we would load the truck after deliveries with the stable clearing, which included bedding straw, sawdust and manure. We piled heaps at home, they stank so we put them way down the back. That winter we spread and dug. That job continued for a few seasons and we built up huge piles. Then, a friend introduced me to a Commercial Poultry Farmer who told me I could take as much of his coop clearings as I could truck away. Thereafter for a few years, I got stable and coop clearings and stockpiled piles. My Dad was delighted and the produce was phenomenal.
I wouldn't use horse manure now.
LOTS of instances of glyphosate treated alfalfa fed to horses ends up making a real killer compost (pun intended)
In the US the, "horsey people" (middle aged women) demand "pretty hay" with no weeds or grass in the alfalfa.....hay suppliers complied and started spraying the hell out of alfalfa.
Glyphosate residue entered the compost and plenty of businesses that supply compost to farms, including organic ones, ended up selling "killer compost". Set-off a bit of a mini scandal.
Fantastic story Tim! Really good to see sustainable methods performing so well against mass produced chemicals
Sounds great.Working with nature is always a better option than fighting it.
Tim does a wonderful job of highlighting new or different approaches
Keep it up mate, we need you 👍
Great to hear someone has risen above the fear to return to natural practices. When people stop relying on sales marketing gimmicks and focus on the evidence of time tested traditional practices we will turn this problem into a solution. Alchemy is about creating the right mixtures for healthy abundant long life.
Brilliant video Tim more content like this if you can thanks.
This is a great vid, very informative and great to see someone taking practical calculated leap of faith. Forever learning, even though some of this is way back in the good old days stuff combined with modern day observation techniques. Excellent, love this
Some farmers are just addicted to the idea that they have to be doing something. Usually expensive in the short term and will have some unintended consequence over the long term. Regen Ag resistance. Impervious to the idea that feed quality is in a direct linear relationship with the health of the soil.
Excellent video. Great to hear from Chris. Would be awesome to hear what the additional soil test attributes he’s looking at or is it standard Nutrien’s test.
Also is any cost comparisons from new materials he’s putting on versus old? Thanks Tim great content as always !
Great video I’m clad some dairy farmers making a change 👍
Good morning Tim, excellent video. I recently saw a similar video out of America on the overuse of nitrogen fertilizers in dairy herds. Great to positive outcomes and hopefully better income for Chris. Great Video. Cheers
Did Ross Clancy help out much
Morning Tim I'm a farmer in Western Australia you said he like figures but I hear nothing about milk production how many litres is cow making now and before.And fat and protein % .
We were concentrating on the paddock performance, for which he gave figures. Not asking him about milk fat % is on me. I wasn’t doing a story on that. Not trying to be deceptive as maybe you’re suggesting?
@@FarmLearningTim No not a all Tim just interested I was milking cows finished milking in 2018 running beef cattle now he right about the lime. When I stopped milking my cows were producing 8500 litres and 4.5%fat and 3.5% protein.cell count 12000 .
Good on you mate, thanks for clarifying. I have to be careful. I've reached out to Chris to see if he wants to share that information. I'll let you know in the comments if I get a response.
From Chris “
The query is not easy to answer
Milk fat is correlated to the amount of fibre in the diet
If low , pastures are being grazed to quickly and the rotation needs to be slowed down or add lib hay needs to be added to the diet
On our farm we have two hay feeders that cows can access on the way out of the dairy. Some days cows eat lots of hay some days not so much depending on how mature the grass is.
Grass should be grazed at the 2.5 to 3 leaf stage.
If fat content is high. Grass is too mature and fibre content of the diet is too high.
A good rule of thumb
Protein test should be about 80% of the fat test
If protein is low add energy ( grain) to the diet” I guess this means that for a good operator like Chris, protein or fat is a variable he manages with supplements to maintain consistency. So it becomes separate to the pasture performance at periods of the season. Hope that helps.
“ The Green Revolution “ was based on very limited knowledge of soil science and did a lot of damage. Fortunately natural systems are by there nature regenerative.
Australia was colonised after 60000 years of sophisticated natural farming practices, when Europeans arrived they found what they thought to be a landscape similar to Europe itself, this was based on limited knowledge of ecosystem conditions even in Europe.
He move onto either j-su or bokashi, and ditch buying in any products