Beeting up some fodder with these whoppers
What whoppers they grow in the Wairoa district. Fraser Taylor and Jamie Powdrell from the Wairoa district show off the massive SF Brigadier fodder beet they have grown.
It’s the second year for Fraser and third year for Jamie they have put the dryland beet crop in as cattle feed. “Brigadier is highly palatable and easy for the cattle to eat.
They prefer to knock the bulbs over to eat them,” was how Lincoln University’s Dr Jim Gibbs put it to a Beef and Lamb NZ Farming for Profit workshop a while back.
There sure is plenty of beet in these pictures to be knocked over, let alone eaten!
What whoppers they grow in the Wairoa district. Fraser Taylor and Jamie Powdrell from the Wairoa district show off the massive SF Brigadier fodder beet they have grown.
It’s the second year for Fraser and third year for Jamie they have put the dryland beet crop in as cattle feed. “Brigadier is highly palatable and easy for the cattle to eat.
They prefer to knock the bulbs over to eat them,” was how Lincoln University’s Dr Jim Gibbs put it to a Beef and Lamb NZ Farming for Profit workshop a while back.
There sure is plenty of beet in these pictures to be knocked over, let alone eaten!
Jan Haggie, Te Kauwhata - 5 months ago
What can I do to save my fodder beet, all the leaves have wilted.
Did I not plant it deep enough?
Only growing one, for a competition.