who has grass .who has silage cut already

bk1991

who has cut there silage already or have ye long more left before yel b cutting ?



bk1991

Tipp Man

bk1991 wrote: »

who has cut there silage already or have ye long more left before yel b cutting ?



bk1991

going to give it the rest of this week to hopefully bulk up a bit, will cut 20 acres probably next monday, another 20 at the end of that week and another 20 around the 18th, weather permitting of course

We do all round bales so we tend to cut it in stages so that the aftergrass is not all back together

The first 20 to be cut looks decent, the middle 20 looks a bit light even though it was stopped a couple of days before and the last 20 is good but this is an inch so moisture much less of an issue

bk1991

Tipp Man wrote: »

going to give it the rest of this week to hopefully bulk up a bit, will cut 20 acres probably next monday, another 20 at the end of that week and another 20 around the 18th, weather permitting of course

We do all round bales so we tend to cut it in stages so that the aftergrass is not all back together

The first 20 to be cut looks decent, the middle 20 looks a bit light even though it was stopped a couple of days before and the last 20 is good but this is an inch so moisture much less of an issue

we cut 120 ac for farmer last week 30ft swarts and we were able fill trailers at 17km/h no grass at all

whelan1

cant see what the rush is to cut there has to be fertiliser still in the grass iykwim

babybrian

just finished measuring grass and its getting too tight for comfort on the home block, cover/cow is down to 110 kg DM/Ha when it should be up 140-190 during the summer months.
Took heavy cover out as bales last week expecting the growth to kick on but instead we have got no rain(in midlands) and drought is becoming an issue now so pleas let is p**s rain tonight.
Silage is taking its time to bulk up also but some should be ready to cut next week.

Tipp Man

whelan1 wrote: »

cant see what the rush is to cut there has to be fertiliser still in the grass iykwim

i think that some people are tight for grass for the cows so want to get the silage cut to get some extra grazing ground into the rotation, but certainly in south Tipp there is very little silage cut, my nephew works for a contractor and they haven't even started yet, usually up and running by 20th May

You would imagine there is a lot of unused nitrogen in the grass due to the poor growth, not good for silage making

whelan1

ye there is serious regrowth in the fields that people have cut around here . another sign there is nitrogen still in the ground ... growth is 2 -3 weeks behind normal we have to keep that in mind

dar31

a good few of the dairy men around me have cut, some looking patchy in places. just watching radar on met eireann,rain will be on me in the hour, if there is not much will cut tomorrow afternoon, and pick up wen/thur.
some of ours is fairly good, but the ones that were grazed the second time late are suffering, they got caught by the dry weather and plant becae stressed.
at this stage its a quality or quanity game

babybrian wrote: »

just finished measuring grass and its getting too tight for comfort on the home block, cover/cow is down to 110 kg DM/Ha when it should be up 140-190 during the summer months.
Took heavy cover out as bales last week expecting the growth to kick on but instead we have got no rain(in midlands) and drought is becoming an issue now so pleas let is p**s rain tonight.
Silage is taking its time to bulk up also but some should be ready to cut next week.

taken 5% or farm out to go in with 1st cut. got caught with burst of growth after rain, went into covers of 1900, cost me 1.5 litres/cowshould have acted sooner:mad:,back to covers of 1400- cows back to normal. farm running at 150kg/ha,stocked at 5.3 lu/ha

leg wax

cut only 9 acres 8 days ago happy with amount on it 88 bales, 30 acres left to cut in about 10 days time.

red bull

No silage cut, needs another week at least. Grazing ground very tight, rain tonight I hope

bk1991

red bull wrote: »

No silage cut, needs another week at least. Grazing ground very tight, rain tonight I hope

very heavy rain here (midlands)since 9 tonight still going ...

BOND747

Silage is at least two weeks behind, glad to see some rain tonight as grass was getting very tight. Hopefully there will be a spurt of growth now

poor farmer

mowing this evening baling tomorrow . cows had surplus last week, now its getting tight

GERMAN ROCKS

we were always the june weekend but id say this year it will be the weekend after. quality will be down but its no good come winter saying to the cattle ye have had the best quality silage but now its all gone. there has to be quantity aswell. its also slow enough the past fews as less fertilizer is being spread. i remember eight or nine years back when the fertilizer was only around 80-90 pound a toone and it was poured out on the ground

Casinoking

I don't know where you were buying it, but it's a lot more than 8 or 9 years ago since fertiliser was £80/tonne around here! Closer to 30 years I'd say!

UPCS

We arent going to be cutting until the end of june id say, there isnt enough grass to cut yet, and there isnt even enough for the cows either the grass dosent seem to be growing very quickly.

tismesoitis

all in the pit today:D:D yield a little down prob 5% or so but quality excellent not a drop of juice to b seen. grass in grazing areas not bad badly needed d rain d other nite.