Zero grazing cows during a wet spring.

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[@laytonphillips6667]

Great video dan, looks like they are enjoying it, hopefully dryer this week.

[@st4183]

Dan - Your cows look healthy and content eating that fresh cut grass. Hope the weather turns for you soon. 👍

[@roba4297]

Good that you have the kit to give you the option of feeding and saving the other fields.

[@feirmfactor859]

Interesting video, adjusting farming methods in line with weather pattern. Great video!!

[@charleshart6992]

Great update - unbelievable spring

[@calumanderson5617]

Yep, spring is indeed late and wet especially the frost this morning!!🥶 I can not wait for the phone call tomorrow from mad bonkers lady, (no wonder her husband goes overseas business trip's, he knows how to avoid punishment !!!) with her lambing and calving, can't wait for the cattle to be out when it drys !!!. 🙄👍

[@mikeman584]

Years ago when I was at the farming my boss used to say the cows hooves are shaped like a set of plough shares and in the wet conditions you describe they can pretty literally plough up the pastures.

[@bobpaterson1845]

Hope the field that got poached not to badly damaged 🤔 after headland done shouldn't lose so much grass when turning 👍

[@cheechU38K]

I’d say maybe have a look for a side discharge bucket to help tidy up the grass on sides. Do claas have a forage trailer that can cut grass without a front mower? Fingers crossed the weather dries up a bit soon. 🙏🏻

[@CowfarmerDan]

Claas are out of the forage wagon market now.

[@chuckhenry5487]

My guess is that they will increase milk yield with the zero graze

[@CowfarmerDan]

Yes.

[@casto-]

That sucks having to zero graze but as you said least you have the gear to do which saves the fields or buying in fodder. We turned the horses out last week 😬🤦‍♂ I’ve not been there since Tuesday so dunno what mess I’m gonna face this week

[@HedgehogChopper]

Farmers, Adaptable whatever the situation

[@tonymorgan3526]

Great video, just maybe a stupid question but does the fresh grass up set the cows digestive system? Runny, smelly poo etc 🤔

[@CowfarmerDan]

You need to change them over gradually.

[@geraldbeard856]

I don't know how many cows you keep but it looks like quite a large herd......but it is a side effect of larger herds i think that as soon as you get wet conditions a larger herd soon makes a big mess. they say that having a large herd you spread your costs over a bigger number of cows but i think there are times when having a large herd compared to a small herd your cost of production can be higher with a bigger herd compared to a smaller herd

[@Rickwardful]

Oh bugger!

[@Dextamartijn]

You guys use flotation tires or not. The grass aint even green around here, in Alberta is probably another month or so.

[@ipfreely10001]

Why not feed the fresh grass with the silage thro your mixer wagon, seeing as you said you were going to put some silage out, with the dm of the grass being v wet? Just a thought?

[@CowfarmerDan]

The wagon isn't big enough.

[@sebastien5701]

Hello We have the same loader wagon class quantum 3800 P. Have you problem thecnic about security axle transmission Réf security bloc parts number EK064/12R 11/17 440 431/5 90 is not possible to use max power of tractor? Best's regards Denouault Seb

[@causewayfarming4x494]

Cows back out today the 16th

[@dawnhall3637]

What happened to your Kidd Double Chop for that job?

[@paulancill3872]

In the wet doesn’t the machinery cut up the ground in the wet?

[@CowfarmerDan]

We choose the dryer fields to cut.

[@johncaffrey4960]

One tractor and a zero grazzer not a lot of machines involved there

[@greggroome2791]

👍🇮🇪🙏👌

[@grahamhume8135]

Not even close to getting cattle out over here

[@crazygaminguk1770]

could u not use a feed wagon to do that

[@CowfarmerDan]

Not really

[@tommybreen9677]

Zero grazing is the stupidest thing ever thought up in agriculture.