how far do you haul slurry

Pat the lad

home farm too wet to spread slurry on. half the cows in most of the summer. tanks full. have dry land 5 miles away, have no choice but draw it to there. 2 miles flat/down hill and 3 up hill.
so facing into 10 round trip with 2000 gallon tank. will just be glad to get tanks emptied.

just wondering how far others draw there slurry.

epfff

regularly haul slurry to out farm 5 miles away
flat road all the way

kevthegaff

theres a pig farm 3 miles away hilly tho, would it be worthwhile with a 2000k tank

poor farmer

I have drawn it 10 mile ,not ideal but on a year like this i had little choice
I think if you can do a load per hour (return trip) its not too bad
Also depends on
Type of road ,hills ,narrow, bumpy ,etc
How much use the recipient land will make of the slurry (not much at this time of year )
Quality of slurry

blue5000

I know you have no choice Pat, but 2000 gals of un diluted slurry is worth about 40 quid, diesel is nearly a fiver a gallon, your time is worth probably 10 quid an hour. I reckon it's costing you in or about 20e a load if you do a load an hour and burn about 2 gals diesel per load.

This time of the year I'm putting it out as close as possible to the yard on silage ground that will be grazed early next spring.

bob charles

50km :cool: was the farthest this year(me not paying), not with the tractor though, longest haul with the tractor is around 5 to 6 miles each way and thats for around 100k gallons:(. slurry starting to become a major problem as not enough land within a few miles of the yard

Insp. Harry Callahan

I got some off the neighbour for the stubble ground recently and wanted to know what it was wirth. According to local Teagsc adviser cattle slurry is worth 29 euro per 1000 gallons in p&k at current prices. Plus a bit of nitrogen in it aswell, though i think it will be mostly lost this time if the year, due to evaporation, unless putting on stubble ground and ploughed in fairly quickly.

grazeaway

emptied what was in the tank back in mid September was about 3/4 full. threw out about 140,000 litres. was starting to get worried at the time but the place dried up nicely in September and I was able to get onto the good dry fields at the top of the farm. I actually clocked it with the car about 2 weeks ago when checking fences (ironic i can get the car into the fields in mid October but couldn't get the tractor into it in august) and its 2.5 mile round trip to the top field which surprised me. The field is in the furthest part of the farm but needed to go through a few others to get there (cattle in the others), only on the road for a few hundred meters but over a mile across the fields.
Anyway the fields are looking very lush and green, the cows had cleaned off the grass so I said I'd put it out to have good early grass next spring. The mild weather over the last few weeks has defiantly allowed what was in the slurry to be taken up. hoping the current weather lasts for longer. You can see exactly where the tanker went as there are a few patches where the last load finished and around the boundary's.

simx

Insp. Harry Callahan wrote: »

I got some off the neighbour for the stubble ground recently and wanted to know what it was wirth. According to local Teagsc adviser cattle slurry is worth 29 euro per 1000 gallons in p&k at current prices. Plus a bit of nitrogen in it aswell, though i think it will be mostly lost this time if the year, due to evaporation, unless putting on stubble ground and ploughed in fairly quickly.

is it not meant to be ploughed straight in anyway?

F.D

Pat the lad wrote: »

home farm too wet to spread slurry on. half the cows in most of the summer. tanks full. have dry land 5 miles away, have no choice but draw it to there. 2 miles flat/down hill and 3 up hill.
so facing into 10 round trip with 2000 gallon tank. will just be glad to get tanks emptied.

just wondering how far others draw there slurry.

We will have to spread whats left in our tanks a similar distance away from the yard, half the journey on a main road the other half on a narrow back road,
with the price of fertilizer i would say its worth it as the silage is cut on some of that ground also, i find our 1600 gallon tank to small and is hard on the tractor, so i hire a 2250 tank with recessed wheels and suspension and go a bit easier, you feel you are actually making progress then, i find it too expensive to get a contractor to do it, but i am not charging my time to the job!!

Insp. Harry Callahan

simx wrote: »

is it not meant to be ploughed straight in anyway?

I asked him that he said the sooner the better alright.

simx

a lad around here drew it with a 2300 gal tank and tractor from pig farm about id reckon 16/17 miles each way, and the lad he was doing it for surley wasnt paying per hour

grazeaway

simx wrote: »

a lad around here drew it with a 2300 gal tank and tractor from pig farm about id reckon 16/17 miles each way, and the lad he was doing it for surley wasnt paying per hour

thats some draw, and a fair amount of diesel. i know a lad that gets pig slurry near here and that draw could be 15/20 miles. the fellas doing it have an old bulk tank and lorry as they are drawing to lots of differnt farms. not sure what is in a load but its a fair size. they empty into the tank and its mixed with cattle slurry berroe being spead by the farmer in his own time. makes way more since then using a tractor and tanker to draw it

6480

if u can take in pig slurry in our area at the min pig farmer will pay for the spreading with the pipe system

mahoney_j

30 eurps for a 4000 gallon load of pig slurry either spread or blown in to my own tank.60000 gallons comming to me over the next 2 days and been drawn about 10 miles one way.Cheap fertliser

poor farmer

Around here the pigmen draw it in for free, Truck and 5k gallon tanker

Getting them to stop drawing is the problem

red bull

Heard slurry spreading date extended till 16 Nov