have ye any fertiliser out yet?

whelan1

around here it would be by hand you would be spreading at the minute as the land is saturated, last year i had a good bit of urea out by now, so has anyone fertiliser out yet?

ABlur

whelan1 wrote: »

around here it would be by hand you would be spreading at the minute as the land is saturated, last year i had a good bit of urea out by now, so has anyone fertiliser out yet?

Just waiting on the helicopter to spread here!

restive

NO!

Marooned75

Not a notion for another six weeks at least and only if we get a dry spell

Grecco

ABlur wrote: »

Just waiting on the helicopter to spread here!

You can borrow the boat I`m using

jomoloney

spreading slurry to day, will top up the tank with soiled water and re agitate , will be spreading well watered slurry from now to late march

no artificial fert, until early april,

forecast good for next week, 6 days in a row without rain , hope they're correct.

RoscommonTom

re you mad, not till after he easter for me

Cavanjack

The rushes are growing fine here without fertilizer. Might give them a skite round Easter.

keep going

nothing yet so thinking of going with the full bag of urea next week because its getting late

Conmaicne Mara

jomoloney wrote: »

forecast good for next week, 6 days in a row without rain , hope they're correct.

How many days until people complain about "the drought" :pac:

reilig

One thing that I have noticed is that I have a great coat of grass on my wetter fields. 2 fields in particular that were and still are really wet - they were badly poached last summer but they seem to have "floated" level over the winter and there is a really great coat of dark green grass coming on them in the last few weeks. Has anyone noticed the same?

Have 1 month of slurry storage left so by the middle of march I'll be spreading it and will be putting urea out on top. Going to take a different approach to fertilizer this year. Instead of spreading fertilizer in 2 runs, I'm going to do it little and often by giving a light sprinkle after every grazing!!

blue5000

No bag stuff out here yet, but started the slurry 'marathon' by getting a few tanks down below the slats. Hoping to agitate and spread slurry next week.

hoseman

Will graze heavy covers first then go out with fertilizer.

vanderbadger

reilig wrote: »

One thing that I have noticed is that I have a great coat of grass on my wetter fields. 2 fields in particular that were and still are really wet - they were badly poached last summer but they seem to have "floated" level over the winter and there is a really great coat of dark green grass coming on them in the last few weeks. Has anyone noticed the same?

Have 1 month of slurry storage left so by the middle of march I'll be spreading it and will be putting urea out on top. Going to take a different approach to fertilizer this year. Instead of spreading fertilizer in 2 runs, I'm going to do it little and often by giving a light sprinkle after every grazing!!

Ya a lot of grass about. Suppose it's been a mild winter even though it was so wet

1chippy

spread some slurry, no fertilizer yet though. hoping to get the umbilical in next week to empty tanks and then like reilig i'll be spreading little and often.

dar31

reilig wrote: »

One thing that I have noticed is that I have a great coat of grass on my wetter fields. 2 fields in particular that were and still are really wet - they were badly poached last summer but they seem to have "floated" level over the winter and there is a really great coat of dark green grass coming on them in the last few weeks. Has anyone noticed the same?

Have 1 month of slurry storage left so by the middle of march I'll be spreading it and will be putting urea out on top. Going to take a different approach to fertilizer this year. Instead of spreading fertilizer in 2 runs, I'm going to do it little and often by giving a light sprinkle after every grazing!!

put the urea out before the slurry, or they will react with each other

kevthegaff

bought 2 ton of urea and 8 ton of pasture sward, ill go when the weather drys up, have to fix me sulky spreader too!

flat out !!

€335 for urea delivered, I have it in the yard ready to go when ground dries up a bit more.

blue5000

flat out !! wrote: »

€335 for urea delivered, I have it in the yard ready to go when ground dries up a bit more.

335? where?

bob charles

I have mine out in the middle of the Atlantic, thankfully its still on a boat as if I had spread it would also be where it is now

AntrimGlens

Had to invest in this cause theres no way i'll be travelling on the ground in the tractor - usually have the fert out by 14th Feb but if it comes a dry spell at all im ready to go.

f140

those of ye that are spreading the fert is it the way ye have no grass or are ye spreading it on strongish grass for this time of year but which wont be grazed for a few weeks or are ye spreading it after it has just been grazed?

delaval

flat out !! wrote: »

€335 for urea delivered, I have it in the yard ready to go when ground dries up a bit more.

I'll take 2 loads!!!!!!!!!!

flat out !!

delaval wrote: »

I'll take 2 loads!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry obviously not €335 actually €435. Too many late nights, i need sleep

Good loser

Got slurry out Feb 2 and urea on other fields the week before. 10 degrees here today and yesterday. Moorepark say N should go out mid january.

bogman_bass

moorepark is a long way away from here!

20silkcut

jomoloney wrote: »

spreading slurry to day, will top up the tank with soiled water and re agitate , will be spreading well watered slurry from now to late march

no artificial fert, until early april,

forecast good for next week, 6 days in a row without rain , hope they're correct.

Where did you see that forecast ?

Met eireann are giving heavy rain over the next few days.

6480

Good loser wrote: »

Got slurry out Feb 2 and urea on other fields the week before. 10 degrees here today and yesterday. Moorepark say N should go out mid january.

you are late so

severeoversteer

was cleaning out drains in a 13.5 tonne digger today and really surprised how dry the place is, will be going out with urea + selenium tomorrow please god bit less than 3/4 bag an acre.;)

Conmaicne Mara

severeoversteer wrote: »

was cleaning out drains in a 13.5 tonne digger today and really surprised how dry the place is, will be going out with urea + selenium tomorrow please god bit less than 3/4 bag an acre.;)

How are things in Spain?

My as yet unbought fert can stay in the bag another while. Raining again now and more for tomorrow.

severeoversteer

ha, no im not in spain , im in east galway , soil temp is hovering around 6 degrees here, lovely day today and yesterday here