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a good time for muck?

  • 02-03-2013 11:40am
    #1
    oldsmokey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 802 ✭✭✭


    Lads, have a good heap of strawy fym that i'd like to get out of my sight, ground ok now...would it benefit grass growth now, or just be a nuisance ?


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  • #2
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,754 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    On silage ground it wouldn't rot down now. Can you tip it at the edge of a silage field and spread it after silage is cut? I'm stacking mine on concrete then ploughing it in for kale after first cut. Well that's the plan anyway:pac:

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



  • #3
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    blue5000 wrote: »
    On silage ground it wouldn't rot down now. Can you tip it at the edge of a silage field and spread it after silage is cut? I'm stacking mine on concrete then ploughing it in for kale after first cut. Well that's the plan anyway:pac:
    Does the kale take much fertilizer ?


  • #4
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,754 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Yeah it likes it's potash, I think 80 units/acre and N about 90 u/acre. I'm in reps so I can't use Phos that's why I use so much FYM and slurry on it. I'll try find a link and post it on here.

    http://www.teagasc.ie/crops/fodder_crops/Kale_and_Rape_Factsheet_2012.pdf

    http://www.agritrading.ie/Kale--Forage-Rape--Good-Options-for-Winter-Feeding

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



  • #5
    royalmeath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 165 ✭✭royalmeath


    It would be a disaster to spread fym this time of year. I did it 4 yrs ago and the **** was still lying there in may.


  • #6
    st1979
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 936 ✭✭✭st1979


    royalmeath wrote: »
    It would be a disaster to spread fym this time of year. I did it 4 yrs ago and the **** was still lying there in may.
    Agree.
    I spread mine in November and still there now. Taught it would be gone. It was straight out of shed. Normally it would of been left to rot


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  • #7
    oldsmokey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 802 ✭✭✭oldsmokey


    Thanks, might chance a light cover on grazing ground..Blue 5000 thought it was illegal to store fym on concrete..unless its covered?..I drew most of mine up the fields...what a mess...


  • #8
    blue5000
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    Not sure what's legal anymore:confused:

    It's on the edge of a silage slab and the juice is being collected in a tank, think that's ok.

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



  • #9
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    st1979 wrote: »
    Agree.
    I spread mine in November and still there now. Taught it would be gone. It was straight out of shed. Normally it would of been left to rot
    I've a good share of straw bedding this year. What's the normal amount of time it should be left to rot? A year?


  • #10
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    oldsmokey wrote: »
    Thanks, might chance a light cover on grazing ground..Blue 5000 thought it was illegal to store fym on concrete..unless its covered?..I drew most of mine up the fields...what a mess...
    blue5000 wrote: »
    Not sure what's legal anymore:confused:

    It's on the edge of a silage slab and the juice is being collected in a tank, think that's ok.
    It's ok on concrete once it's covered and there is no run off. Alternatively if the run off is being captured it needn't be covered. (The run off is what causes pollution of the groundwater).

    There are dates in REPS for storing FYM in the field. I don't know what they are but it shouldn't be stored in the field before a certain date. Are such dates now taken into consideration if your having a cross-compliance check, regardless of whether you're in REPS/AEOS or not? :confused:


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