Stuart Mitchell

@Farmer_Tom_UK Switch the doom and gloom off, switch off social media. You cant blame anyone else for the position your in. We all live 1 life. Yes the gov is ridiculous but build your life not to be at the mercy of them.

I used to have the confidence to invest; now I don’t. The sole difference is government (not climate, world markets, Brexit, AOB). If this is what is published on official channels, why are we not dumping this gov and asking for a new one?

@dea_farm Hi, sorry we currently don't ship to Ireland.

@WhitriggsStuart Hi Stuart, do you ship your bale Unroller to Ireland?

99 cows and calves chomping away quite happy. Daily moves of 0.75 ha. Nothing other than grass.

It’s that’s time again. James R out with the bale unwinder offering some hay to our AA cows to slow the very wet lush autumn grass in thier rumens. We see ☀️ here but it feels very autumnal. @WhitriggsStuart

From Problem to Product, The Whitriggs Bale Unroller Outwintering cattle raised a new challenge, how to feed them without wrecking the ground or using a tractor. Stuart Mitchell came up with a simple, effective solution, he designed and built a bale unroller that...

We bought a bale unroller from @WhitriggsStuart last winter and it's been brilliant! Definitely got us out of a few tricky situations in the snow 👌

Fab day with our @SEFARIscot Environmentally-sustainable Livestock Farming (ELF) Working Group @MoredunComms today, including a trip out to our institute farm at Firth Mains, lots of great discussion and ideas for future research! Thanks to all concerned! 👍🐑 🌳 🐄 🐦 🌺 💩 🪲

Wool on the new hedge doing well fighting off the drought and now the weeds

@EdinvaleFarm What are you trying to achieve with the collars over electric fencing?

Not sure what i expected from the no fence collars but fair impressed. Had them in a lane way and used the virtual fence to move them along it. Photos don't do it justice but it's kept them in! Changes temperament which I'm not comfortable with but will see how it settles down.

Well that's the quickest I've jumped out my bed for a while #run #iykyk

Could get used to this weather for calving time. 3 weeks in today and just clocked 80% calved. Just another 3 weeks to go. Cows bunching up into their mob for ☀️ @ScottishOrganic @PastureForLife

What glorious weather!! 🌞🌞🌞

@EdinvaleFarm Do you think with a lack of grass at that time you get much extra growth being early to worry about finishing dates?

@WhitriggsStuart Up to a point. Can't go too late as starts to interfere with other things and also need to think about when they are going to finish. We have an opportunity to move later though as we have tightened up calving a fair bit over the years

Good day for measuring the docken crop! Rain this week has given a get out of jail boost here. The good weather so far has meant that I have kicked the erse out of the grazing so grass is trying to play catch up. Have made the decision to put the bulls out a bit later this year!

@EdinvaleFarm Is your plan to keep moving forwards until your calving when grass is growing quicker?

@WhitriggsStuart Just going back a week again Stuart. Start 1st March, hope to be finished by the 15th April!

Some year for frog spawn! It's everywhere

That great time of year again!!

What a glprious week it is for doing some drainage and installing an extra water tank. Awesome place we live. The spring sun fairly lifts the mood. 🌞🌞🌞

@herdyshepherd1 I see what your try to get at here but going off people's photos never tells the actual story behind them. I worked out whether we could do without bales. And it is possible but for us less profitable and less diversity of incomes from the farm.

I’m sure some regen bale grazing is just made up work… the cows seem to be in fields with way more grass than ours At modest stocking densities with good grazing planning and daily movement I reckon we don’t need it

@herdyshepherd1 When does hay get old? We have stuff atleast 15 year old. Still good for if and when it's needed.

We’ve found that having a hay reserve becomes a trap It gets old after 1-2 years and then you have to use it So we’ve had a small group of cattle eating old bales for the last month or so - just to get it eaten And we don’t need it Going to eliminate the hay reserve