Late grazing fertilizer/slurry

Viewtodiefor

Lads have few fields just grazed not sure what to do with em, a bag of fertilizer or slurry to get another graze this year? If slurry will I get another graze? Is it too late for fertilizer good dry ground

reilig

Viewtodiefor wrote: »

Lads have few fields just grazed not sure what to do with em, a bag of fertilizer or slurry to get another graze this year? If slurry will I get another graze? Is it too late for fertilizer good dry ground

Ground that I spread slurry on 2 weeks ago will be fit to graze in another week. Can't really tell you if its too late now or not. We had frost 2 mornings last week. Growth is near an end in this part of the country. If there comes more frost, it will hit a sudden stop!

49801

Viewtodiefor wrote: »

Lads have few fields just grazed not sure what to do with em, a bag of fertilizer or slurry to get another graze this year? If slurry will I get another graze? Is it too late for fertilizer good dry ground

too late for proper slurry.
was at a btap event Wed last week and the think there was certainly get the fert out now!
Seems a bit colder this week but soil temps are still up around 12 degrees on www.met.ie so still worth putting it out if you havn't already.
It a tough decision this late in the year but if your not in you cant win.
They also said at the btap that as the year has been so wet that the response to fert has been greater than normal... think this is coming from grange or moorepark.

Black Smoke

Trouble is, even if you get more grass coming, trying to graze it, will probably lead to poaching / damage etc,. Payback time will be next spring.
I have given up on fertilizer at this stage. In fact, never spread so little of it as I did this year. Apart from first application in spring, the ground just seemed always too wet to spread fertilizer. Just few bags on and off in selective spots and parts of fields.
Response to slurry, was pathetic compared to previous years to make matters worse.
I have soil samples sent for most of the land. Awaiting results. Will try to be very specific about what and when I apply next year. It's gone way too expensive, for speculative application.

grazeaway

put out the slurry over the weekend. the fields will be closed off now till next spring. Soil temp still good so hoping the slurry will get drawn in and that i'll have good grass in these fields next year. good dry filds so will be ideal for early grazing. the grass didnt stop growing down here last winter so hoping the slurry will taken in. land was too wet all summer and couldnt get the tanker in until recently. best to start off the winter with an empty slatted tank. got caught a few years back and the slurry was coming up through the slats in mid january and way too wet to spread it.

Username John

Grass growth wasn't so bad here (West Cork) for a bit, but it seems to have slowed down a lot now, after getting a lot colder the past few days. Getting a bit worried I'll be caught for grass...
Going to put out some fertiliser (and I don't normally put it out) and also going to get some slurry on some ground that has just been grazed... it can be coming away for the next few weeks, and then will graze again in Nov / Dec...
This will be first time I put out slurry (its from a neighbour) so it'll be interesting to see how it does...

But I am sheep only, so grazing in Dec isn't an issue really...

blue5000

I've finished with half bag urea per acre everywhere I could travel over the past month. Will be putting out watery slurry everywhere I can on bare grass during this round. As already said it's important to get tanks empty now if possible, things could be rough next January......

Muckit

Would lads not feel they'd get a better bang for their buck holding off spreading fert now and spreading it next spring?

Username John

Muckit wrote: »

Would lads not feel they'd get a better bang for their buck holding off spreading fert now and spreading it next spring?

Hi Muckit,
You could be right

I've found over the past few weeks that the value in grass just isn't there. Am going through fields of what I considered good grass in a shorter time than I would have expected... So this is kinda what prompted me to look at whether I have enough grass or not...

Plus a neighbour (who I would say is a good man to grow grass) was in one day, and we happened to walk a new reseed, and he said I should put out some fertilser as the field looked hungry...

I put out 10-10-20, whether it will be a waste of money, or whether it will yield some results, time will tell...

Black Smoke

Muckit wrote: »

Would lads not feel they'd get a better bang for their buck holding off spreading fert now and spreading it next spring?

I was watching a neighbour spreading fertilizer on a field just over two weeks ago. Field was reseeded about five years ago I would say, and had just been grazed off and two crops silage taken off it.
Just looking over the hedge when I was herding this morning, you wouldn't really know it had got any fertilizer recently. Bugger all growth past two weeks. Plenty rain, and cold nights instead.

restive

Old thread. Weather cooler at night. Anybody still putting out fertilizer?

Who2

Ive a couple of ton left in the yard and im going to give a bag to the acre over some of the ground. Ive never spread this late but its in the yard and i might be kicking myself looking at it in Feb as i hit the back wall of the pit.

charolais0153

Grass is growing like mad for us, still putting put a bag of 18 6 12 to acre after grazing. Better response now than in january

restive

I just put out 8 bags of 18 6 12 that got left over because of the drought in July. I was genuinely astonished how much grass has grown since early August. Its strong enough for me to take another cut of silage from it, but I won't because I want to graze it. No sign of frost here but nights cool.