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Summary of Key Facts - 2017/18 Season: https://t.co/uUbylQj56r

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I hope everyone grows plenty of grass in the next month and produces some cheap milk. It has been a tough season in Southland. The payouts looking great ! #agchatnz

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Update: Sun is out and drying the ground very well. Cows just ticking a long at 2.2ms/cow. Feed 1.3kg pke, 1kg ddg
1kg soyahulls, 0.7kg grain.The summer calvers are on once a day with no feed in cow shed. They will be dryed off on 1st December & have done very well.

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At the moment we are looking to stop mowing as have mowed the whole farm already so have very good quality. Also looking to skip a round of urea. Taking 15% farm out to regrass.

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The rapeseed crop worked really well. They milk off it well.
Have better quality silage this year which helped as well.
Best of luck to everyone for this up coming calving!
Have FUN and enjoy yourselves! #agchatnz #ospdemofarm

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Update: Very good winter for growing grass.
APC 2300 and we milked 90 cows through the winter.
Now 10 calves on the ground and we are into calving exciting times! Count down. 190 cows to go.
The winter milkers maintained over 2ms/cow over the winter.

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The calm before the storm. Stop by our stall and meet the team. #fieldays2019 #ospdemofarm

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Update: APC:2450. Dropping so have had to up the feed from 6kg-8kg in shed. 1kg ddg, 3kg pke, 2.5kg soya hulls, 1.5kg crushed grain. Cost is $2.73/cow or 0.40ms/cow. Cows producing 2.05ms/cow. S.R=3.47. Have 43 wagyu calves all over 90kg ready to go now so have worked well.

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Update: Feeding 2kg soya hulls, 2 kg pke, 1 kg crushed wheat, 1 kg ddg
Cows doing 2.1ms/cow. Stocking rate 3.5cows/ha. Do not want to feed silage until May. 22 day round now moving to 30 days. APC 2350 #agchatnz

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Update: Cow ms/cow 2.1; Feed 2.5 kg pke, 2 kg crushed wheat, 1.5 kg ddg. APC 2150. Grass is growing so will start extending the round now. #agchatnz #ospdemofarm

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@WeatherWatchNZ Looks like it will sweep over the north at this stage but touch us as well . Some have been suggesting it could head towards Australia instead

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Great having the Dairy Women's Network come on farm today although most avoided being in the picture.

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All the summer born wagyu calves are doing really well! #agchatnz

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Update: Summer calving is almost over have 3 more cows to go. Cows doing 2.2ms/cow. Feeding 1.3kg crushed wheat, 1.3 kg ddg 1.3 kg pke. APC 2450. Just sprayed 4 ha to put rapeseed in for winter milking. Excellent summer grass at moment #agchatnz

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@george_cawte The local truck company mixes it before they drop off in Fert bay

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Update: 228 cows in milk. Dry cows 50 will calve from 20th January. Ms/cow 2.2. Feed 2.5kg pke, 2.5 kg ddg, 1kg crushed wheat. Just had very good rain but need some follow up rain to really kick it in to gear.

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Feeding 1.3kg crushed wheat,1.3kg ddg,1.3kg pke. Cows doing 2.4ms/cow. The dry cows will be grazed on farm. Only need maintenance as all of them are over 5 condition already. Through the really bad weather we did double feed them so they were getting 8kg in total through the shed

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Update: Just dried off autumn calvers. They have done well, they have milked for over 400 days now. They will calve 20th January. Milking cows per/ha over summer is 3/ha. Cutting some supplement now. Already cut 50 bales & will try get another 150 bales.

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Update: 2.4 ms/cow.
Feeding 1.3 kg grain, 1.3 kg ddg,
1.3 kg pke.
Plenty of grass at the moment
Only 17 calves still on milk.
Mating was on target before bad weather but now just drop below 90% target for submission rate. #agchatnz

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Update: Herd test results.
Carryovers autumn 1.7ms
Carryovers empty 2.03ms
Spring calvers 2.53ms
Total average was 2.4 ms
Feed 2.5 kg wheat
1.5 gddg
Still mowing ahead not the best quality grass.
Will have mowed whole farm by 10th October #agchatnz