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slurry on silage ground. is it too late.

  • 15-04-2011 6:26am
    #1
    Tora Bora
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    Just finishing grazing the silage ground. It's grazed fairly bare. Would it be late from a contamination point of view to give it a dash of watery slurry?


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


    no


  • #3
    Tora Bora
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,258 ✭✭✭Tora Bora


    leg wax wrote: »
    no

    :D Thanks. I thought so. It'll be slurry followed by a dash of CAN for me on the silage ground this year.


  • #4
    jeff greene
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    The weather looks very dry and settled for the next week so be careful if the slurry is thick, but if well grazed off it should be ok


  • #5
    Tora Bora
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,258 ✭✭✭Tora Bora


    jeff greene wrote: »
    The weather looks very dry and settled for the next week so be careful if the slurry is thick, but if well grazed off it should be ok

    Tank is 18 inches from the slats today. I will be bringing it up to the top with water. Just to be safe.


  • #6
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,756 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    You should be ok if its bare and using watery slurry, I spread some earlier this wk and its almost disappeared.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



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  • #7
    Tora Bora
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,258 ✭✭✭Tora Bora


    If I plan on spreading 2,000 gal slurry per acre and 2 bags of CAN, would it be a good idea to dump the CAN into the tank before agitating.
    Spread the whole lot on the land in one stroke.
    Time and diesel and money spared.

    What's the catch if any?


  • #8
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    Tora Bora wrote: »
    If I plan on spreading 2,000 gal slurry per acre and 2 bags of CAN, would it be a good idea to dump the CAN into the tank before agitating.
    Spread the whole lot on the land in one stroke.
    Time and diesel and money spared.

    What's the catch if any?

    jeez wouldnt think so, would have no idea how the slurry and nitrogen might react, could be an explosive mixture :D also you would have no way to quantify how much would be spread on any particular area


  • #9
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Tora Bora wrote: »
    If I plan on spreading 2,000 gal slurry per acre and 2 bags of CAN, would it be a good idea to dump the CAN into the tank before agitating.
    Spread the whole lot on the land in one stroke.
    Time and diesel and money spared.

    What's the catch if any?

    You'd want to stir the 'tea' well or the 'sugar' could all go to the bottom :D


  • #10
    Tora Bora
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,258 ✭✭✭Tora Bora


    vanderbadger wrote: »
    jeez wouldnt think so, would have no idea how the slurry and nitrogen might react, could be an explosive mixture :D also you would have no way to quantify how much would be spread on any particular area

    I put on my white coat and glasses, last week and I mixed a handy shovel full of CAN with a big pail of slurry:eek:
    Then I ran away, and came back next morning ................ bucket still in one piece. Grains of CAN still visible.:)
    I all but drank a pint of it:cool:


  • #11
    F.D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 718 ✭✭✭F.D


    Tora Bora wrote: »
    If I plan on spreading 2,000 gal slurry per acre and 2 bags of CAN, would it be a good idea to dump the CAN into the tank before agitating.
    Spread the whole lot on the land in one stroke.
    Time and diesel and money spared.

    What's the catch if any?

    Seen an neighbour doing this years ago never any explosions or anything but then that was when fert was cheap i dont know if he still does it now or not
    its a pity you couldnt put the likes of a slug pellet aplicator on the back of the tank to spread it out over the slurry, just put in enough when your back refilling the tank for the next acre your spreading
    then again there might be too much losses doin it that way with the fert disolving too quick


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  • #12
    reilig
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    vanderbadger wrote: »
    also you would have no way to quantify how much would be spread on any particular area

    That's the crux of it I think.

    Also, a certain amount of the can would settle to the bottom (like sugar in tea - the last mouthful is always the sweetest). The problem is that you leave the last 6 to 8 inches in your tank - it would be wasted.

    Also, when you dump a full bag of can in through an agitating and it gets wet, would it Lump?


  • #13
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,756 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    I'm not sure, but I think you could lose some of the N to the air as ammonia when you agitate and spread it. I'd say don't do it, diesel isn't that dear yet and N is too expensive:( to be taking chances with.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #14
    Finno59
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 177 ✭✭Finno59


    blue5000 wrote: »
    I'm not sure, but I think you could lose some of the N to the air as ammonia when you agitate and spread it. I'd say don't do it, diesel isn't that dear yet and N is too expensive:( to be taking chances with.
    exactly , dont chance it.


  • #15
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    You can do it if you want, there are no dangers to mixing etc. I have often done it in the past with second (or maybe 3rd/4th) grade material I could source, I applied it before maize planting as you could give the grass a little burn. I know of a field that is blue at the moment after having a little "liquid" fert applied with the slurry tank. I reckon the boy will have uncontrolable grass for the next few years when he told me the rate he applied it at


  • #16
    what happen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭what happen


    bob charles wrote: »
    You can do it if you want, there are no dangers to mixing etc. I have often done it in the past with second (or maybe 3rd/4th) grade material I could source, I applied it before maize planting as you could give the grass a little burn. I know of a field that is blue at the moment after having a little "liquid" fert applied with the slurry tank. I reckon the boy will have uncontrolable grass for the next few years when he told me the rate he applied it at
    more danger of burning the ground out


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