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fert or watery slurry

  • 29-08-2012 8:26am
    #1
    49801
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    weather finally coming dry but not for long by the looks of it:(
    Just trying to remember is it better to spread the CAN or the water/slurry first.

    the slurry tanks filled with water over the last few months for various reasons and I need to get them emptied but I also need to get some CAN out.
    The water will have to be spread on the same ground as the CAN....


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  • #2
    Farmer Pudsey
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    Slurry first you do not want the slurry to cake the fertlizer and make it hard to dissolve


  • #3
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    You kinda have to get rid of the slurry don't you? I'm in the same boat myself. Have 35,000 gallons of slury to get out - its nutrient rich enough because its from where the cows were housed during the summer, but its at least 30% rain water too which should make it go into the ground easily enough. I'll put out the CAN on top of it.


  • #4
    Black Smoke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 315 ✭✭Black Smoke


    Any sense in dumping the CAN in the slurry tank. Agitate and spread. One pass, on ground already soft from the bad weather.
    Tracking over ground with a tractor and fert spreader after soreading slurry in a normal year, kind of leaves tracks.
    I save up any bits of hard fertilizer or damaged bag fert for the slurry tank before agitating.
    Which is another bug bear of mine. The quality of the plastic bags of fertilizer these days is a joke. You just cant have a pallet of fertilizer out under the elements during a saeason anymore, without running the risk of having bags of goo that will not go through the spreader because of water ingress:(:(


  • #5
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Black Smoke wrote: »
    Any sense in dumping the CAN in the slurry tank. Agitate and spread. One pass, on ground already soft from the bad weather.
    Tracking over ground with a tractor and fert spreader after soreading slurry in a normal year, kind of leaves tracks.
    I save up any bits of hard fertilizer or damaged bag fert for the slurry tank before agitating.
    Which is another bug bear of mine. The quality of the plastic bags of fertilizer these days is a joke. You just cant have a pallet of fertilizer out under the elements during a saeason anymore, without running the risk of having bags of goo that will not go through the spreader because of water ingress:(:(

    I wouldn't be a fan unless you are putting it on with a dribble bar or injecting it. You lose a lot of Nitrogen to the air when you spread with a splash plate!!


  • #6
    Tipp Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,025 ✭✭✭Tipp Man


    The nitrogen loss from splashplate should be reduced this time of year - especially as it seems to be cloudy nearly every day - here at least

    You should get a good response from watery slurry so i assume you'll be reducing your CAN rates?

    In our experience you'd want to leave at least a few days (week or more) between spreading both.


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