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Silage in March!

  • 23-03-2009 11:15am
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    Registered Users Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭


    Surely the first cut of silage in Ireland this year?!?! 83 bales baled, wrapped and stacked on Saturday 21st march 2009, just outside Clane, Co. Kildare. Never thought i'd see the day!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Surely the first cut of silage in Ireland this year?!?! 83 bales baled, wrapped and stacked on Saturday 21st march 2009, just outside Clane, Co. Kildare. Never thought i'd see the day!

    There was a picture on last week's journal of a guy baling silage in waterford last monday march 16th.

    Your silage doesn't look like great quality. Looks like grass that was not cut from last year with an old while sole on it. Would love to know the DMD of it. Would bet a hapenny on it that it isn't the minimum 65% that is recommended.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭wiggy123


    seen that in the paper..i'd b unsure if the silage would be gd quality, as in dry matter! feeding value!

    it would hav to be reseeded ground,that was not grazed since summer time, to get a crop now!

    as from what little i know--grass is normally dormant in the winter months..with little groeth etc..mayb i'm wrong!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭vincenzolorenzo


    reilig wrote: »
    There was a picture on last week's journal of a guy baling silage in waterford last monday march 16th.

    Ah flip, are you serious? Didn't spot that one. They beat us to it! Yeah the grass was fairly crap, there since last year, can't imagine there'll be any feeding value in it at all but you know yourself, the customer is always right!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    a new way of storing dung what will they think of next.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭vincenzolorenzo


    leg wax wrote: »
    a new way of storing dung what will they think of next.

    Yeah, a new, very expensive way of storing it!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭wiggy123


    an expensive way of storing dung, at that!
    grass quality will be brutal--until aleast may..for silage production in my eyes!
    need sugar levels,etc up!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    probably recommended by teagasc


  • Registered Users Posts: 576 ✭✭✭MrFoxman360


    83 bales baled, wrapped and stacked on Saturday 21st march 2009, just outside Clane, Co. Kildare

    FFS :eek:, so he was serious about cutting silage this early,

    any problems with ground conditions trying to draw them, I see the usual suspects on the job :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭adne


    an absolute waste of time..... bales of s**te


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭vincenzolorenzo


    FFS :eek:, so he was serious about cutting silage this early,

    any problems with ground conditions trying to draw them, I see the usual suspects on the job :rolleyes:

    No, ground conditions were grand. Actually the afternoon was like a summers day, dusty yard, you'd swear it was july or something! it was a fair oul spin drawing them from the far side of naas but he had 4 trailers on the go (including not too bad!). The boss had him talked out of it until Mr. Lynch came along and convinced him to wrap them! He should get a job with Teagasc!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 57 ✭✭hurler007


    A fool and his money are easily parted!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    hurler007 wrote: »
    A fool and his money are easily parted!
    hes a farmer what else would u expect:D:D:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭vincenzolorenzo




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 236 ✭✭Seinas


    why on earth would anyone do silage this early???????????


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭vincenzolorenzo


    Seinas wrote: »
    why on earth would anyone do silage this early???????????

    He was renting ground for the summer and it hadn't been cut last year so he wanted it cleaned up and he toook a chance on wrapping it


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